Fog Creek Software
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Fog Creek Software is a New York–based software company best known for creating influential developer tools and products such as Trello and FogBugz.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fog Creek Software canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7977130 — 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: Fog Creek Software Context triple: [Trello, developer, Fog Creek Software]
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A.
Eiffel Software
Eiffel Software is a software company best known for developing the Eiffel programming language and tools that emphasize object-oriented design and software reliability.
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B.
Rockwell Software
Rockwell Software is a business unit of Rockwell Automation that develops industrial automation and manufacturing execution system (MES) software solutions.
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C.
Altamira Software
Altamira Software was a pioneering computer graphics and digital imaging company co-founded by computer graphics visionary Alvy Ray Smith.
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D.
Syntrillium Software
Syntrillium Software was a software company best known for creating the audio editing program Cool Edit, which later evolved into Adobe Audition after Adobe acquired the firm.
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E.
Inprise Corporation
Inprise Corporation was the temporary name used by software company Borland during a late-1990s rebranding focused on enterprise 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: Fog Creek Software Target entity description: Fog Creek Software is a New York–based software company best known for creating influential developer tools and products such as Trello and FogBugz.
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A.
Eiffel Software
Eiffel Software is a software company best known for developing the Eiffel programming language and tools that emphasize object-oriented design and software reliability.
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B.
Rockwell Software
Rockwell Software is a business unit of Rockwell Automation that develops industrial automation and manufacturing execution system (MES) software solutions.
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C.
Altamira Software
Altamira Software was a pioneering computer graphics and digital imaging company co-founded by computer graphics visionary Alvy Ray Smith.
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D.
Syntrillium Software
Syntrillium Software was a software company best known for creating the audio editing program Cool Edit, which later evolved into Adobe Audition after Adobe acquired the firm.
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E.
Inprise Corporation
Inprise Corporation was the temporary name used by software company Borland during a late-1990s rebranding focused on enterprise solutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
private company
ⓘ
software company ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Stack Overflow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developed |
Fog Creek Copilot
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
FogBugz NERFINISHED ⓘ Kiln NERFINISHED ⓘ Trello NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focusesOn | tools for software developers ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Joel Spolsky
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Pryor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedInDecade | 2000s ⓘ |
| hasFounder |
Joel Spolsky
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Pryor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson |
Joel Spolsky
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Pryor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableAlumni |
Jeff Atwood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joel Spolsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ New York State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
developer tools
ⓘ
software ⓘ |
| knownFor |
creating developer tools
ⓘ
influential software products ⓘ |
| laterBrandedAs | Glitch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
Fog Creek Copilot
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
FogBugz NERFINISHED ⓘ Kiln NERFINISHED ⓘ Trello NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatesInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| productType |
bug tracking software
ⓘ
project management software ⓘ remote pair programming tool ⓘ version control hosting ⓘ |
| spunOff |
Stack Overflow
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trello NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| website | https://www.fogcreek.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: Fog Creek Software Description of subject: Fog Creek Software is a New York–based software company best known for creating influential developer tools and products such as Trello and FogBugz.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.