Arm Ltd.
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Arm Ltd. is a British semiconductor and software design company best known for creating the ARM architecture used in the vast majority of the world’s mobile and embedded processors.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arm Ltd. canonical | 14 |
| Arm Limited | 4 |
| ARM Limited | 2 |
| ARM (offices/R&D) | 1 |
| ARM Ltd. | 1 |
| Arm Holdings | 1 |
| Arm Holdings (historical majority stake) | 1 |
| pursue initial public offering of Arm Ltd. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T576671 — 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: Arm Ltd. Context triple: [ARM, developedBy, Arm Ltd.]
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A.
Thomson SA
Thomson SA was a major French electronics and media conglomerate known for its consumer electronics, broadcasting, and defense-related technologies.
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B.
Western European Armaments Group
The Western European Armaments Group was a collaborative body within the Western European Union responsible for coordinating defense equipment procurement and armaments cooperation among its member states.
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C.
GKN Sankey
GKN Sankey was a British engineering and manufacturing company best known for producing military vehicles and automotive components.
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D.
BAE Systems
BAE Systems is a major British multinational defense, security, and aerospace company that designs and manufactures advanced military aircraft, naval vessels, and other defense technologies.
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E.
Pemberton-Billing Ltd
Pemberton-Billing Ltd was a British aircraft manufacturing company founded by Noel Pemberton Billing that later evolved into the renowned Supermarine aviation firm.
- 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: Arm Ltd. Target entity description: Arm Ltd. is a British semiconductor and software design company best known for creating the ARM architecture used in the vast majority of the world’s mobile and embedded processors.
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A.
Thomson SA
Thomson SA was a major French electronics and media conglomerate known for its consumer electronics, broadcasting, and defense-related technologies.
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B.
Western European Armaments Group
The Western European Armaments Group was a collaborative body within the Western European Union responsible for coordinating defense equipment procurement and armaments cooperation among its member states.
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C.
GKN Sankey
GKN Sankey was a British engineering and manufacturing company best known for producing military vehicles and automotive components.
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D.
BAE Systems
BAE Systems is a major British multinational defense, security, and aerospace company that designs and manufactures advanced military aircraft, naval vessels, and other defense technologies.
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E.
Pemberton-Billing Ltd
Pemberton-Billing Ltd was a British aircraft manufacturing company founded by Noel Pemberton Billing that later evolved into the renowned Supermarine aviation firm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fabless semiconductor company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ semiconductor company ⓘ software company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | SoftBank Group ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2016 ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | approximately 32 billion USD ⓘ |
| architectureDesigned |
ARM architecture
ⓘ
ARMv7-A architecture ⓘ
surface form:
ARMv7
ARMv8-A ⓘ
surface form:
ARMv8
ARMv9-A ⓘ
surface form:
ARMv9
|
| businessModel |
intellectual property licensing
ⓘ
royalty-based licensing ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| designPhilosophy | reduced instruction set computing ⓘ |
| focus | RISC processor architectures ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Acorn Computers
ⓘ
Apple Inc. ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Computer, Inc.
VLSI technology ⓘ
surface form:
VLSI Technology
|
| hasSubsidiary | Arm China ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Cambridge, England ⓘ |
| inception | 1990 ⓘ |
| industry |
computer software
ⓘ
intellectual property licensing ⓘ semiconductors ⓘ |
| listedOn |
NASDAQ
ⓘ
surface form:
Nasdaq
|
| marketPosition | dominant supplier of CPU IP for mobile devices ⓘ |
| notableCustomer |
Apple Inc.
ⓘ
Broadcom ⓘ NVIDIA Corporation ⓘ
surface form:
NVIDIA
Qualcomm ⓘ Samsung ⓘ
surface form:
Samsung Electronics
|
| notableFor |
ARM architecture used in mobile devices
ⓘ
low-power processor designs ⓘ |
| originalName |
Acorn RISC Machine
ⓘ
surface form:
Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.
|
| product |
CPU cores
ⓘ
GPU cores ⓘ development tools ⓘ microcontroller cores ⓘ software development kits ⓘ system-on-chip architectures ⓘ |
| shortName | Arm ⓘ |
| spunOffFrom | Acorn Computers ⓘ |
| technologyUsedIn |
Internet of Things devices
ⓘ
embedded systems ⓘ single-board computers ⓘ smartphones ⓘ tablets ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | ARM ⓘ |
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: Arm Ltd. Description of subject: Arm Ltd. is a British semiconductor and software design company best known for creating the ARM architecture used in the vast majority of the world’s mobile and embedded processors.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
pursue initial public offering of Arm Ltd.
this entity surface form:
ARM (offices/R&D)
this entity surface form:
Arm Limited
this entity surface form:
ARM Limited
this entity surface form:
Arm Holdings (historical majority stake)
this entity surface form:
Arm Limited
this entity surface form:
Arm Limited
subject surface form:
ARMv5
this entity surface form:
ARM Limited
this entity surface form:
Arm Holdings
this entity surface form:
Arm Limited