Symantec (historical headquarters)
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Symantec (historical headquarters) refers to the former main corporate offices of the cybersecurity and software company Symantec, which were located in Mountain View, California.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Symantec (historical headquarters) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1496505 — 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: Symantec (historical headquarters) Context triple: [Mountain View, hasHeadquartersOf, Symantec (historical headquarters)]
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A.
Natick Labs
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B.
Massachusetts Computer Associates
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C.
NCR Corporation
NCR Corporation is a global technology company best known for its point-of-sale systems, ATMs, and other financial and retail transaction solutions.
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D.
Salesforce Tower vicinity
Salesforce Tower vicinity is the bustling area surrounding San Francisco’s tallest skyscraper, characterized by dense office towers, transit connections, and the commercial core of the Financial District.
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E.
Voorhees Computing Center
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- 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: Symantec (historical headquarters) Target entity description: Symantec (historical headquarters) refers to the former main corporate offices of the cybersecurity and software company Symantec, which were located in Mountain View, California.
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A.
Natick Labs
Natick Labs is a U.S. Army research center specializing in developing advanced food, clothing, equipment, and technologies to enhance soldier performance and survivability.
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B.
Massachusetts Computer Associates
Massachusetts Computer Associates was a pioneering computer science research and software development company active in the 1960s–1970s, known for employing influential computer scientists such as Leslie Lamport.
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C.
NCR Corporation
NCR Corporation is a global technology company best known for its point-of-sale systems, ATMs, and other financial and retail transaction solutions.
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D.
Salesforce Tower vicinity
Salesforce Tower vicinity is the bustling area surrounding San Francisco’s tallest skyscraper, characterized by dense office towers, transit connections, and the commercial core of the Financial District.
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E.
Voorhees Computing Center
Voorhees Computing Center is a major academic computing and technology hub on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus, housing computer labs, networking infrastructure, and related IT services for students and faculty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
corporate headquarters
ⓘ
former headquarters ⓘ office building complex ⓘ |
| associatedBrand | Norton ⓘ |
| associatedCompany | Symantec ⓘ |
| buildingUse | office ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
corporate decision-making center
ⓘ
management center for global operations ⓘ |
| headquartersOf |
Symantec
ⓘ
surface form:
Symantec Corporation
|
| industryOfOccupant |
computer software
ⓘ
cybersecurity ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Mountain View ⓘ
surface form:
Mountain View, California
Santa Clara County ⓘ
surface form:
Santa Clara County, California
|
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| locatedInTime |
early 21st century
ⓘ
late 20th century ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being main offices of Symantec in Mountain View ⓘ |
| occupantType |
cybersecurity company
ⓘ
software company ⓘ |
| primaryOccupant |
Symantec
ⓘ
surface form:
Symantec Corporation
|
| status | former headquarters location ⓘ |
| usedAs | corporate headquarters ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administrative offices
ⓘ
executive offices ⓘ research and development offices ⓘ |
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: Symantec (historical headquarters) Description of subject: Symantec (historical headquarters) refers to the former main corporate offices of the cybersecurity and software company Symantec, which were located in Mountain View, California.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.