Autodesk
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Autodesk is a multinational software company best known for creating industry-standard tools for 3D design, engineering, and entertainment, including AutoCAD and Maya.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Autodesk canonical | 32 |
| ADSK | 1 |
| AutoCAD | 1 |
| Autodesk AutoCAD | 1 |
| Autodesk Education Community | 1 |
| Autodesk Research | 1 |
| Autodesk creative applications | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8822950 — 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: Autodesk Context triple: [Autodesk Maya, developer, Autodesk]
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A.
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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B.
Dassault Systèmes
Dassault Systèmes is a French multinational software company best known for its 3D design, engineering, and product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions such as CATIA and SOLIDWORKS.
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C.
Trimble
Trimble is a surname of English and Irish origin borne by various notable individuals across politics, science, and the arts.
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D.
Trimble
Trimble is a small village and municipality located in Athens County in the southeastern region of Ohio, United States.
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E.
Shapeware Corporation
Shapeware Corporation was the original software company that created the diagramming application later known as Microsoft Visio.
- 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: Autodesk Target entity description: Autodesk is a multinational software company best known for creating industry-standard tools for 3D design, engineering, and entertainment, including AutoCAD and Maya.
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A.
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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B.
Dassault Systèmes
Dassault Systèmes is a French multinational software company best known for its 3D design, engineering, and product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions such as CATIA and SOLIDWORKS.
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C.
Trimble
Trimble is a surname of English and Irish origin borne by various notable individuals across politics, science, and the arts.
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D.
Trimble
Trimble is a small village and municipality located in Athens County in the southeastern region of Ohio, United States.
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E.
Shapeware Corporation
Shapeware Corporation was the original software company that created the diagramming application later known as Microsoft Visio.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
multinational corporation
ⓘ
public company ⓘ software company ⓘ |
| coreBusiness |
3D design software
ⓘ
engineering software ⓘ media and entertainment software ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| famousFor |
3D modeling and animation tools
ⓘ
computer-aided design (CAD) software ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Bill Howland
ⓘ
Bob Middlebrooks ⓘ Chris Yewdall ⓘ Dan Drake ⓘ Duff Kurland ⓘ Fred Fish ⓘ Greg Lutz ⓘ Hans Moravec ⓘ Jack Stuppin ⓘ John Kern ⓘ John Lynch ⓘ John Walker ⓘ John Walker (programmer) ⓘ Lenore Mullin ⓘ Michael Riddle ⓘ Rudolf K. Krampe ⓘ Tom Kane ⓘ |
| foundedDate | 1982-01-30 ⓘ |
| foundedYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
Autodesk Education Community
ⓘ
linked to:
Autodesk
|
| hasSubsidiary |
Autodesk Research
ⓘ
linked to:
Autodesk
|
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco, California
|
| industry |
3D computer graphics
ⓘ
CAD software ⓘ computer software ⓘ media and entertainment software ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
3ds Max
ⓘ
linked to:
Autodesk 3ds Max
Arnold ⓘ AutoCAD ⓘ
linked to:
Autodesk AutoCAD
AutoCAD LT ⓘ Civil 3D ⓘ Fusion 360 ⓘ Inventor ⓘ Maya ⓘ Revit ⓘ ShotGrid ⓘ |
| offers | student software licenses ⓘ |
| servesIndustry |
architecture
ⓘ
construction ⓘ engineering ⓘ manufacturing ⓘ media and entertainment ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol |
ADSK
ⓘ
linked to:
Autodesk
|
| website | https://www.autodesk.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: Autodesk Description of subject: Autodesk is a multinational software company best known for creating industry-standard tools for 3D design, engineering, and entertainment, including AutoCAD and Maya.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Autodesk
subject linked to:
Socialcam (as co-founder)
subject linked to:
Socialcam (as co-founder)
linked to: Autodesk
linked to: Autodesk
linked to: Autodesk
linked to: Autodesk
linked to: Autodesk
subject linked to:
Autodesk Arnold GPU (via NVIDIA technology stack)