Network Associates
E795109
Network Associates was a cybersecurity and antivirus software company best known as the former parent of McAfee.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Network Associates canonical | 1 |
| Network Associates, Inc. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9369575 — 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: Network Associates Context triple: [Network Associates Coliseum, sponsoredBy, Network Associates]
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A.
Network Systems Corporation
Network Systems Corporation was a computer networking company known for employing ARPANET pioneer Lawrence G. Roberts and contributing to early data communications technologies.
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B.
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems is a multinational technology conglomerate best known for designing and selling networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment used worldwide.
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C.
AdventNet Inc.
AdventNet Inc. was the original name of Zoho Corporation, a software company best known for its suite of online productivity and business applications.
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D.
Novell
Novell was a prominent software company best known for its NetWare network operating system and contributions to enterprise networking and Linux technologies.
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E.
CA Technologies
CA Technologies was a major American enterprise software company known for its mainframe, IT management, and security solutions before being acquired by Broadcom.
- 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: Network Associates Target entity description: Network Associates was a cybersecurity and antivirus software company best known as the former parent of McAfee.
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A.
Network Systems Corporation
Network Systems Corporation was a computer networking company known for employing ARPANET pioneer Lawrence G. Roberts and contributing to early data communications technologies.
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B.
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems is a multinational technology conglomerate best known for designing and selling networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment used worldwide.
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C.
AdventNet Inc.
AdventNet Inc. was the original name of Zoho Corporation, a software company best known for its suite of online productivity and business applications.
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D.
Novell
Novell was a prominent software company best known for its NetWare network operating system and contributions to enterprise networking and Linux technologies.
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E.
CA Technologies
CA Technologies was a major American enterprise software company known for its mainframe, IT management, and security solutions before being acquired by Broadcom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antivirus software company
ⓘ
software company ⓘ |
| acquired |
McAfee Associates
ⓘ
linked to:
McAfee
Network General ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| brand |
McAfee
ⓘ
PGP ⓘ Sniffer ⓘ |
| category |
Antivirus software companies
ⓘ
Computer security companies ⓘ Defunct software companies of the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focus |
antivirus protection
ⓘ
endpoint protection ⓘ intrusion detection ⓘ network security ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | McAfee ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
John McAfee
ⓘ
William Larson ⓘ |
| hadSubsidiary |
McAfee Security
ⓘ
linked to:
McAfee
Network General division ⓘ PGP Security ⓘ
linked to:
PGP
|
| hasFormerName |
McAfee Associates
ⓘ
linked to:
McAfee
|
| headquartersLocation |
Santa Clara, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara
|
| industry |
antivirus software
ⓘ
computer security ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being former parent company of McAfee
ⓘ
enterprise security software ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| offered |
network management tools
ⓘ
security management solutions ⓘ virus protection for enterprises ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
1990s
ⓘ
early 2000s ⓘ |
| parentCompanyOf | McAfee ⓘ |
| product |
McAfee Firewall
ⓘ
linked to:
McAfee
McAfee VirusScan ⓘ
linked to:
McAfee
McAfee antivirus software ⓘ
linked to:
McAfee
PGP encryption software ⓘ Sniffer network analysis tools ⓘ
linked to:
Wireshark
|
| specializedIn |
email security
ⓘ
malware protection ⓘ network intrusion detection ⓘ |
| successor | McAfee ⓘ |
| tradedAs | NASDAQ:NETA ⓘ |
| type | public company ⓘ |
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: Network Associates Description of subject: Network Associates was a cybersecurity and antivirus software company best known as the former parent of McAfee.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Network Associates