UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation)
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UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation) is a leading Taiwanese semiconductor foundry that manufactures integrated circuits for global electronics and technology companies.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| United Microelectronics Corporation | 2 |
| UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8414580 — 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: UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation) Context triple: [Hsinchu, hasMajorCompanyNearby, UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation)]
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A.
TSMC
TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is the world’s largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, renowned for producing cutting-edge chips for major technology companies.
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B.
Wilson Semiconductors
"Wilson Semiconductors" is an album by the experimental rock band The Howling Hex, known for their unconventional song structures and lo-fi aesthetic.
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C.
SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics
SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics was a major semiconductor company formed by the merger of Italy’s SGS Microelettronica and France’s Thomson Semiconducteurs, later renamed STMicroelectronics.
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D.
Xicor
Xicor was a semiconductor company best known for designing and manufacturing non-volatile memory and analog integrated circuits.
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E.
VIA Technologies
VIA Technologies is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company best known for designing low-power x86-compatible processors and chipsets for PCs and embedded systems.
- 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: UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation) Target entity description: UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation) is a leading Taiwanese semiconductor foundry that manufactures integrated circuits for global electronics and technology companies.
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A.
TSMC
TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is the world’s largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, renowned for producing cutting-edge chips for major technology companies.
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B.
Wilson Semiconductors
"Wilson Semiconductors" is an album by the experimental rock band The Howling Hex, known for their unconventional song structures and lo-fi aesthetic.
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C.
SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics
SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics was a major semiconductor company formed by the merger of Italy’s SGS Microelettronica and France’s Thomson Semiconducteurs, later renamed STMicroelectronics.
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D.
Xicor
Xicor was a semiconductor company best known for designing and manufacturing non-volatile memory and analog integrated circuits.
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E.
VIA Technologies
VIA Technologies is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company best known for designing low-power x86-compatible processors and chipsets for PCs and embedded systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Taiwanese company
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multinational corporation ⓘ public company ⓘ semiconductor foundry ⓘ |
| areaServed | global ⓘ |
| businessModel | pure-play foundry ⓘ |
| competesWith |
GlobalFoundries
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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation ⓘ Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company ⓘ
linked to:
TSMC
|
| coreTechnology |
CMOS process technology
ⓘ
specialty process technology ⓘ |
| country |
Taiwan
ⓘ
linked to:
Taiwan, Province of China
|
| customerType |
fabless semiconductor companies
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integrated device manufacturers ⓘ |
| foundationPlace | Hsinchu, Taiwan ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Taiwan government-backed initiative ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
China fab
ⓘ
Hsinchu Science Park fab ⓘ
linked to:
Hsinchu Science Park
Singapore fab ⓘ Tainan fab ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Hsinchu, Taiwan ⓘ |
| industry |
integrated circuit manufacturing
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semiconductors ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| marketPosition | one of the world’s leading pure-play semiconductor foundries ⓘ |
| processNode |
0.13 μm
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40 nm ⓘ 55 nm ⓘ 65 nm ⓘ 90 nm ⓘ mature and specialty nodes ⓘ |
| product |
BCD power management ICs
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CMOS logic wafers ⓘ RF ICs ⓘ automotive-grade ICs ⓘ embedded non-volatile memory ICs ⓘ mixed-signal ICs ⓘ |
| servesIndustry |
automotive
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communications ⓘ computing ⓘ consumer electronics ⓘ industrial electronics ⓘ |
| service |
integrated circuit manufacturing services
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specialty process technologies ⓘ wafer fabrication ⓘ |
| shortName | UMC ⓘ |
| stockExchange |
New York Stock Exchange
ⓘ
Taiwan Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol |
2303.TW
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UMC ⓘ |
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: UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation) Description of subject: UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation) is a leading Taiwanese semiconductor foundry that manufactures integrated circuits for global electronics and technology companies.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hsinchu, Taiwan
linked to: UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation)
linked to: UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation)