MessageLabs
E831098
MessageLabs was a pioneering cloud-based email and web security services provider known for its anti-spam and anti-virus solutions for businesses.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MessageLabs canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9932394 — 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.
Target entity: MessageLabs Context triple: [Symantec, acquired, MessageLabs]
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A.
Mailie
Mailie is the doomed ewe featured as the central, dying character in Robert Burns’s poem "The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie."
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B.
Mail
Mail is a Flask extension class that provides a simple interface for sending email messages from Flask web applications.
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C.
Mail
Mail is Apple’s built-in email client application for macOS, used to send, receive, and manage email accounts.
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D.
InMail
InMail is LinkedIn’s premium messaging tool that lets users directly contact other members they’re not connected with on the platform.
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E.
Mailer
Mailer is a surname most notably associated with American novelist, journalist, and essayist Norman Mailer.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: MessageLabs Target entity description: MessageLabs was a pioneering cloud-based email and web security services provider known for its anti-spam and anti-virus solutions for businesses.
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A.
Mailie
Mailie is the doomed ewe featured as the central, dying character in Robert Burns’s poem "The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie."
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B.
Mail
Mail is a Flask extension class that provides a simple interface for sending email messages from Flask web applications.
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C.
Mail
Mail is Apple’s built-in email client application for macOS, used to send, receive, and manage email accounts.
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D.
InMail
InMail is LinkedIn’s premium messaging tool that lets users directly contact other members they’re not connected with on the platform.
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E.
Mailer
Mailer is Symfony’s email-sending component that provides a flexible, secure, and extensible way to create and deliver emails in PHP applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cloud security service
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company ⓘ email security provider ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Symantec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2008-10 ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | 695000000 USD ⓘ |
| brandOf | Symantec.cloud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| customerType |
business
ⓘ
enterprise ⓘ |
| deploymentModel | cloud-based ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Star Internet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Ben White
NERFINISHED
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Jos White NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Chandler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
England
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Gloucester NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| industry |
cloud computing
ⓘ
computer security ⓘ software as a service ⓘ |
| knownFor |
anti-spam technology
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anti-virus scanning ⓘ cloud-based email security ⓘ managed security services ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Symantec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productOrService |
anti-spam service
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anti-virus service ⓘ content filtering ⓘ email security ⓘ web security ⓘ |
| provided |
gateway email filtering
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malware protection ⓘ phishing protection ⓘ spam filtering ⓘ virus scanning ⓘ web traffic filtering ⓘ |
| serviceModel | software as a service ⓘ |
| status | defunct brand ⓘ |
| successor |
Broadcom (enterprise security assets)
NERFINISHED
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Symantec.cloud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetMarket |
large enterprises
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small and medium-sized businesses ⓘ |
| technologyUsed |
cloud-based scanning infrastructure
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heuristic analysis ⓘ signature-based detection ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: MessageLabs Description of subject: MessageLabs was a pioneering cloud-based email and web security services provider known for its anti-spam and anti-virus solutions for businesses.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.