NGINX, Inc.
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NGINX, Inc. is a software company best known for creating and maintaining the high‑performance NGINX web server and reverse proxy platform widely used to power modern web applications.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NGINX, Inc. canonical | 3 |
| Nginx, Inc. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8816561 — 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: NGINX, Inc. Context triple: [nginx, developer, NGINX, Inc.]
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A.
Akamai Technologies
Akamai Technologies is a leading global content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services provider that optimizes and secures the delivery of online content and applications.
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B.
Fastly
Fastly is an American cloud computing company best known for its edge cloud platform and content delivery network (CDN) services that accelerate and secure web and application delivery.
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C.
npm, Inc.
npm, Inc. is the company behind the npm package manager and registry, a central infrastructure provider for JavaScript and Node.js developers.
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D.
Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies is a U.S.-based telecommunications and technology company that provides internet, networking, cloud, and security services to businesses and consumers.
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E.
Pivotal Software
Pivotal Software is a cloud-native platform and services company known for its Pivotal Cloud Foundry product and agile software development tools, originally formed as a spin-off from EMC and VMware.
- 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: NGINX, Inc. Target entity description: NGINX, Inc. is a software company best known for creating and maintaining the high‑performance NGINX web server and reverse proxy platform widely used to power modern web applications.
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A.
Akamai Technologies
Akamai Technologies is a leading global content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services provider that optimizes and secures the delivery of online content and applications.
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B.
Fastly
Fastly is an American cloud computing company best known for its edge cloud platform and content delivery network (CDN) services that accelerate and secure web and application delivery.
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C.
npm, Inc.
npm, Inc. is the company behind the npm package manager and registry, a central infrastructure provider for JavaScript and Node.js developers.
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D.
Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies is a U.S.-based telecommunications and technology company that provides internet, networking, cloud, and security services to businesses and consumers.
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E.
Pivotal Software
Pivotal Software is a cloud-native platform and services company known for its Pivotal Cloud Foundry product and agile software development tools, originally formed as a spin-off from EMC and VMware.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | software company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
F5 Networks
ⓘ
F5, Inc. ⓘ
linked to:
F5
|
| acquisitionAnnouncedOn | 2019-03-11 ⓘ |
| acquisitionCompletedInYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| acquisitionPriceUSD | 670000000 ⓘ |
| businessModel | open core ⓘ |
| coFoundedBy |
Andrew Alexeev
ⓘ
Maxim Konovalov ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russia ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
cloud‑native applications
ⓘ
high‑performance web serving ⓘ load balancing ⓘ microservices architectures ⓘ reverse proxying ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Igor Sysoev ⓘ |
| foundedInYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco, California
|
| industry |
application delivery
ⓘ
software ⓘ web server software ⓘ |
| knownFor |
NGINX open source web server
ⓘ
high‑performance HTTP server ⓘ reverse proxy technology ⓘ supporting modern web applications ⓘ |
| name | NGINX, Inc. ⓘ |
| offers |
commercial support for NGINX
ⓘ
linked to:
nginx
professional services ⓘ training for NGINX technologies ⓘ |
| officeLocation |
Cork, Ireland
ⓘ
Moscow, Russia ⓘ
linked to:
Moscow
|
| parentOrganization |
F5, Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
F5
|
| primaryProtocolSupport |
HTTP
ⓘ
HTTPS ⓘ TCP ⓘ UDP ⓘ |
| product |
NGINX Amplify
ⓘ
NGINX Controller ⓘ
linked to:
NGINX Ingress Controller
NGINX Plus ⓘ
linked to:
nginx
NGINX Unit ⓘ NGINX reverse proxy ⓘ NGINX web server ⓘ
linked to:
nginx
|
| productType |
API gateway
ⓘ
application delivery controller ⓘ content cache ⓘ load balancer ⓘ reverse proxy ⓘ web server ⓘ |
| softwareLicenseForCoreProduct | 2‑clause BSD license ⓘ |
| supportsSoftware |
NGINX Plus
ⓘ
NGINX open source ⓘ |
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: NGINX, Inc. Description of subject: NGINX, Inc. is a software company best known for creating and maintaining the high‑performance NGINX web server and reverse proxy platform widely used to power modern web applications.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.