Rackspace
E699711
Rackspace is a cloud computing company known for co-founding and helping develop the OpenStack open-source cloud platform.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rackspace canonical | 4 |
| Rackspace Managed Hosting | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7937901 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rackspace Context triple: [OpenStack, developedBy, Rackspace]
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A.
Loudcloud
Loudcloud was a pioneering early-2000s cloud and managed hosting company co-founded by Marc Andreessen that later evolved into the software firm Opsware.
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B.
Akamai Technologies
Akamai Technologies is a leading global content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services provider that optimizes and secures the delivery of online content and applications.
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C.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is a leading global cloud computing platform offering on-demand infrastructure, storage, and application services to businesses, developers, and institutions.
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D.
Fastly
Fastly is an American cloud computing company best known for its edge cloud platform and content delivery network (CDN) services that accelerate and secure web and application delivery.
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E.
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud is a leading global cloud computing and infrastructure services provider originating from China, offering a wide range of scalable computing, storage, and data solutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rackspace Target entity description: Rackspace is a cloud computing company known for co-founding and helping develop the OpenStack open-source cloud platform.
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A.
Loudcloud
Loudcloud was a pioneering early-2000s cloud and managed hosting company co-founded by Marc Andreessen that later evolved into the software firm Opsware.
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B.
Akamai Technologies
Akamai Technologies is a leading global content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services provider that optimizes and secures the delivery of online content and applications.
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C.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is a leading global cloud computing platform offering on-demand infrastructure, storage, and application services to businesses, developers, and institutions.
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D.
Media Temple
Media Temple is a web hosting and cloud services company known for providing managed hosting solutions for designers, developers, and businesses, and is owned by GoDaddy.
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E.
Fastly
Fastly is an American cloud computing company best known for its edge cloud platform and content delivery network (CDN) services that accelerate and secure web and application delivery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cloud computing company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ |
| businessModel | managed cloud services ⓘ |
| coFounded | OpenStack ⓘ |
| coreValueProposition | Fanatical Support ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focusesOn |
enterprise customers
ⓘ
multi-cloud solutions ⓘ |
| formerName |
Rackspace Managed Hosting
ⓘ
linked to:
Rackspace
|
| foundedBy |
Graham Weston
ⓘ
Pat Condon ⓘ Richard Yoo ⓘ |
| hasDataCenterIn |
Australia
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ Hong Kong ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
Mexico ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasOfficeIn |
Austin
ⓘ
Hong Kong ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
San Antonio ⓘ Sydney ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Antonio, Texas ⓘ |
| helpedDevelop | OpenStack ⓘ |
| inception | 1998 ⓘ |
| industry |
IT services
ⓘ
cloud computing ⓘ managed hosting ⓘ |
| offers |
cloud migration services
ⓘ
colocation services ⓘ hybrid cloud services ⓘ managed database services ⓘ managed hosting services ⓘ managed security services ⓘ multi-cloud management ⓘ private cloud services ⓘ professional services ⓘ public cloud services ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| supportsPlatform |
Amazon Web Services
ⓘ
Google Cloud Platform ⓘ
linked to:
Google Cloud
Microsoft Azure ⓘ
linked to:
Azure
OpenStack ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | RXT ⓘ |
| website | https://www.rackspace.com/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Rackspace Description of subject: Rackspace is a cloud computing company known for co-founding and helping develop the OpenStack open-source cloud platform.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Rackspace