Maxtor
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Maxtor was a major American manufacturer of hard disk drives, known for its consumer and enterprise storage products before being acquired by Seagate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maxtor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11113962 — 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: Maxtor Context triple: [Conner Peripherals, competition, Maxtor]
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A.
Maxtor Tower
Maxtor Tower is a historic defensive tower that forms part of the medieval fortifications of Nuremberg, Germany.
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B.
Seagate Technology
Seagate Technology is a leading American data storage company best known for manufacturing hard disk drives and other storage solutions for consumer and enterprise markets.
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C.
Iomega
Iomega was a data storage company best known for its Zip and Jaz drives, later acquired and operated as a subsidiary of EMC Corporation.
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D.
HGST
HGST is a data storage company and hard drive manufacturer known for its enterprise-class HDDs and SSDs, now operating as a brand under Western Digital.
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E.
Western Digital
Western Digital is a major American data storage company known for manufacturing hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and related storage solutions for consumers and enterprises.
- 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: Maxtor Target entity description: Maxtor was a major American manufacturer of hard disk drives, known for its consumer and enterprise storage products before being acquired by Seagate.
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A.
Maxtor Tower
Maxtor Tower is a historic defensive tower that forms part of the medieval fortifications of Nuremberg, Germany.
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B.
Seagate Technology
Seagate Technology is a leading American data storage company best known for manufacturing hard disk drives and other storage solutions for consumer and enterprise markets.
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C.
Iomega
Iomega was a data storage company best known for its Zip and Jaz drives, later acquired and operated as a subsidiary of EMC Corporation.
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D.
HGST
HGST is a data storage company and hard drive manufacturer known for its enterprise-class HDDs and SSDs, now operating as a brand under Western Digital.
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E.
Western Digital
Western Digital is a major American data storage company known for manufacturing hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and related storage solutions for consumers and enterprises.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
hard disk drive manufacturer ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Seagate Technology ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2006 ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| brandContinuedBy | Seagate Technology ⓘ |
| brandStatus | discontinued as primary brand ⓘ |
| businessModel |
original equipment manufacturer
ⓘ
retail storage products ⓘ |
| competitor |
IBM Storage Technology
ⓘ
linked to:
IBM storage systems
Quantum Corporation ⓘ Seagate Technology ⓘ Western Digital ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dissolved | 2006 ⓘ |
| focus |
affordable consumer storage
ⓘ
high-capacity desktop drives ⓘ |
| formerStatus | independent public company ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Eliot M. Stone
ⓘ
Jack Swartz ⓘ James McCoy ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Milpitas, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Milpitas
|
| inception | 1982 ⓘ |
| industry |
computer hardware
ⓘ
data storage ⓘ |
| knownFor |
DiamondMax series
ⓘ
Fireball series ⓘ OneTouch external drives ⓘ consumer hard disk drives ⓘ enterprise hard disk drives ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| market |
desktop PC storage
ⓘ
external backup storage ⓘ server storage ⓘ |
| notableEvent | acquisition of Quantum HDD business in 2001 ⓘ |
| notableProductLine |
Atlas SCSI drives
ⓘ
MaXLine series ⓘ |
| parentOrganizationAfterAcquisition | Seagate Technology ⓘ |
| productType |
enterprise storage system
ⓘ
external hard drive ⓘ hard disk drive ⓘ internal hard drive ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| technology |
ATA hard drives
ⓘ
SATA hard drives ⓘ SCSI hard drives ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | MXTR ⓘ |
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: Maxtor Description of subject: Maxtor was a major American manufacturer of hard disk drives, known for its consumer and enterprise storage products before being acquired by Seagate.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.