Polycom
E171423
Polycom is a telecommunications company best known for its audio and video conferencing solutions and collaboration technologies used in businesses worldwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Polycom canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1503642 — 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: Polycom Context triple: [Tandberg, notableCompetitor, Polycom]
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A.
Avaya
Avaya is an American multinational technology company specializing in business communications, unified communications, and contact center solutions for enterprises and organizations worldwide.
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B.
Tandberg
Tandberg is a Norwegian company best known for its video conferencing and telepresence solutions, which became part of Cisco Systems after its acquisition.
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C.
Biamp Systems
Biamp Systems is an American professional audio and video equipment manufacturer known for its conferencing, signal processing, and networked media solutions used in commercial and institutional installations worldwide.
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D.
Opsware
Opsware was a data center automation and IT infrastructure management software company, best known for being co-founded by Marc Andreessen and later acquired by Hewlett-Packard.
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E.
Genesys
Genesys is a global customer experience and contact center technology company known for its cloud-based solutions that help businesses manage and optimize customer interactions.
- 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: Polycom Target entity description: Polycom is a telecommunications company best known for its audio and video conferencing solutions and collaboration technologies used in businesses worldwide.
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A.
Avaya
Avaya is an American multinational technology company specializing in business communications, unified communications, and contact center solutions for enterprises and organizations worldwide.
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B.
Tandberg
Tandberg is a Norwegian company best known for its video conferencing and telepresence solutions, which became part of Cisco Systems after its acquisition.
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C.
Biamp Systems
Biamp Systems is an American professional audio and video equipment manufacturer known for its conferencing, signal processing, and networked media solutions used in commercial and institutional installations worldwide.
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D.
Opsware
Opsware was a data center automation and IT infrastructure management software company, best known for being co-founded by Marc Andreessen and later acquired by Hewlett-Packard.
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E.
Genesys
Genesys is a global customer experience and contact center technology company known for its cloud-based solutions that help businesses manage and optimize customer interactions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
audio conferencing company
ⓘ
telecommunications company ⓘ video conferencing company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Plantronics ⓘ |
| acquisitionAnnouncedOn | 2018 ⓘ |
| acquisitionTarget | Polycom self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| competitor |
Cisco Systems
ⓘ
Microsoft Teams ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft (Teams ecosystem partners)
Zoom Video Communications ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formerHeadquartersLocation |
San Jose, California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
San Jose, California Bay Area
|
| foundedBy |
Brian L. Hinman
ⓘ
Jeffrey Rodman ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1990 ⓘ |
| hasCustomerBase |
educational institutions
ⓘ
global businesses ⓘ government organizations ⓘ |
| hasTechnology |
H.323 video conferencing
ⓘ
SIP-based VoIP endpoints ⓘ telepresence interoperability ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Jose
ⓘ
surface form:
San Jose, California
|
| industry |
audio conferencing
ⓘ
telecommunications ⓘ unified communications ⓘ video conferencing ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Cisco collaboration platforms
ⓘ
Skype for Business Online ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Skype for Business
Microsoft Teams ⓘ Zoom Video Communications ⓘ
surface form:
Zoom
|
| knownFor |
audio conferencing solutions
ⓘ
enterprise collaboration technologies ⓘ video conferencing solutions ⓘ |
| market |
business collaboration
ⓘ
enterprise customers ⓘ |
| offers |
cloud-based collaboration services
ⓘ
interoperability solutions for UC platforms ⓘ on-premises conferencing infrastructure ⓘ |
| product |
collaboration software
ⓘ
conference phones ⓘ content sharing solutions ⓘ desktop video solutions ⓘ immersive telepresence rooms ⓘ room video systems ⓘ telepresence systems ⓘ unified communications endpoints ⓘ video conferencing systems ⓘ |
| status | brand within Poly (formerly Plantronics) context ⓘ |
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: Polycom Description of subject: Polycom is a telecommunications company best known for its audio and video conferencing solutions and collaboration technologies used in businesses worldwide.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Plantronics