PortSwigger Ltd
E721421
PortSwigger Ltd is a cybersecurity company best known for creating Burp Suite, a widely used web application security testing platform.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| PortSwigger Ltd canonical | 3 |
| PortSwigger Labs | 1 |
| PortSwigger Research | 1 |
| PortSwigger Web Security Academy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8248233 — 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: PortSwigger Ltd Context triple: [Burp Suite, developer, PortSwigger Ltd]
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A.
Burp Suite
Burp Suite is a popular integrated platform for web application security testing, widely used by penetration testers to identify and exploit vulnerabilities.
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B.
SmartBear Software
SmartBear Software is a software company known for its tools that support API development, testing, and monitoring, including stewardship of the popular Swagger ecosystem.
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C.
OWASP ZAP
OWASP ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy) is an open-source web application security testing tool used to find vulnerabilities in web applications.
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D.
Tenable
Tenable is a British daytime television quiz show, hosted by Warwick Davis, in which teams of contestants attempt to complete top-ten lists on a variety of topics.
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E.
Sucuri
Sucuri is a website security company best known for its malware removal, firewall, and protection services for websites and online businesses.
- 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: PortSwigger Ltd Target entity description: PortSwigger Ltd is a cybersecurity company best known for creating Burp Suite, a widely used web application security testing platform.
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A.
Burp Suite
Burp Suite is a popular integrated platform for web application security testing, widely used by penetration testers to identify and exploit vulnerabilities.
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B.
SmartBear Software
SmartBear Software is a software company known for its tools that support API development, testing, and monitoring, including stewardship of the popular Swagger ecosystem.
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C.
OWASP ZAP
OWASP ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy) is an open-source web application security testing tool used to find vulnerabilities in web applications.
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D.
Tenable
Tenable is a British daytime television quiz show, hosted by Warwick Davis, in which teams of contestants attempt to complete top-ten lists on a variety of topics.
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E.
Sucuri
Sucuri is a website security company best known for its malware removal, firewall, and protection services for websites and online businesses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
cybersecurity company ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| develops |
security tooling for HTTP and web protocols
ⓘ
web security research content ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
application security testing
ⓘ
penetration testing tooling ⓘ web application security ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
PortSwigger Labs
ⓘ
linked to:
PortSwigger Ltd
PortSwigger Research ⓘ
linked to:
PortSwigger Ltd
PortSwigger Web Security Academy ⓘ
linked to:
PortSwigger Ltd
|
| hasUserBase |
application security teams
ⓘ
bug bounty hunters ⓘ penetration testers ⓘ security researchers ⓘ |
| industry |
cybersecurity
ⓘ
software ⓘ |
| knownFor | Burp Suite ⓘ |
| offers |
web application security testing tools
ⓘ
web security academy ⓘ
linked to:
web security labs
web security labs ⓘ web security training materials ⓘ |
| product |
Burp Collaborator
ⓘ
Burp Intruder ⓘ Burp Repeater ⓘ Burp Scanner ⓘ
linked to:
Burp Suite
Burp Suite ⓘ Burp Suite Community Edition ⓘ
linked to:
Burp Suite
Burp Suite Enterprise Edition ⓘ
linked to:
Burp Suite
Burp Suite Professional ⓘ
linked to:
Burp Suite
Burp Suite extensions ecosystem ⓘ |
| publishes |
vulnerability write-ups
ⓘ
web security research ⓘ |
| softwareDomain |
dynamic application security testing
ⓘ
vulnerability assessment ⓘ web application testing ⓘ |
| softwareType |
commercial software
ⓘ
proprietary software ⓘ |
| targetMarket |
consulting firms
ⓘ
enterprise security teams ⓘ independent security testers ⓘ |
| website | https://portswigger.net ⓘ |
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: PortSwigger Ltd Description of subject: PortSwigger Ltd is a cybersecurity company best known for creating Burp Suite, a widely used web application security testing platform.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: PortSwigger Ltd
linked to: PortSwigger Ltd
linked to: PortSwigger Ltd