Ashton-Tate
E171252
Ashton-Tate was a prominent American software company best known for its dBASE database management system, which was a leading product in the personal computer software market during the 1980s.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ashton-Tate canonical | 2 |
| dBASE | 1 |
| dBASE was a leading product in the personal computer software market | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1490816 — 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: Ashton-Tate Context triple: [Lotus Development Corporation, competitor, Ashton-Tate]
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A.
Acorn Computers
Acorn Computers was a pioneering British computer company best known for developing early personal computers and creating the ARM architecture that became foundational in modern computing devices.
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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.
Lotus 1-2-3
Lotus 1-2-3 is a pioneering spreadsheet software program for personal computers that became a dominant business application in the 1980s.
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D.
Osborne
Osborne is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across history and contemporary culture.
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E.
Wyatt Software
Wyatt Software was a software company known for employing pioneering programmer Ward Cunningham early in his career.
- 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: Ashton-Tate Target entity description: Ashton-Tate was a prominent American software company best known for its dBASE database management system, which was a leading product in the personal computer software market during the 1980s.
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A.
Acorn Computers
Acorn Computers was a pioneering British computer company best known for developing early personal computers and creating the ARM architecture that became foundational in modern computing devices.
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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.
Lotus 1-2-3
Lotus 1-2-3 is a pioneering spreadsheet software program for personal computers that became a dominant business application in the 1980s.
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D.
Osborne
Osborne is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across history and contemporary culture.
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E.
Wyatt Software
Wyatt Software was a software company known for employing pioneering programmer Ward Cunningham early in his career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
ⓘ
software company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Borland ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| businessFocus | packaged application software for PCs ⓘ |
| businessModel | proprietary software licensing ⓘ |
| competitiveWith |
Lotus Development Corporation
ⓘ
Microsoft ⓘ Corel Corporation ⓘ
surface form:
WordPerfect Corporation
|
| coreTechnology | xBase language ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributionModel |
boxed retail software
ⓘ
dealer and VAR channels ⓘ |
| era | microcomputer revolution ⓘ |
| fate | acquired by Borland ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Torrance, California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Torrance, California
|
| historicalSignificance | one of the major PC software companies of the 1980s ⓘ |
| industry | software ⓘ |
| influenced | xBase-compatible database products ⓘ |
| keyProductRole |
Ashton-Tate
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
dBASE was a leading product in the personal computer software market
|
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| marketPosition | leading PC software vendor in the 1980s ⓘ |
| marketSegment | desktop database management ⓘ |
| notableFor | popularizing database applications on personal computers ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
dBASE
ⓘ
surface form:
dBASE II
dBASE ⓘ
surface form:
dBASE III
dBASE ⓘ
surface form:
dBASE IV
|
| notableWork | dBASE ⓘ |
| operatingSystemSupport |
Apple II
ⓘ
CP/M ⓘ IBM PC compatible ⓘ MS-DOS ⓘ |
| primaryProgrammingLanguageOfProduct | xBase (for dBASE) ⓘ |
| product | dBASE ⓘ |
| productType | database management system ⓘ |
| servedHardwarePlatform |
IBM PC
ⓘ
IBM PC compatible ⓘ
surface form:
IBM PC compatibles
microcomputers ⓘ |
| softwareCategory | business software ⓘ |
| softwareGenre | database management ⓘ |
| specialization | database software ⓘ |
| targetUser |
business users
ⓘ
software developers ⓘ |
| usedOnPlatform | personal computer ⓘ |
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: Ashton-Tate Description of subject: Ashton-Tate was a prominent American software company best known for its dBASE database management system, which was a leading product in the personal computer software market during the 1980s.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
dBASE
this entity surface form:
dBASE was a leading product in the personal computer software market