SolarWinds
E184465
SolarWinds is an American software company best known for its IT infrastructure management tools and for being at the center of a major 2020 supply-chain cyberattack.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SolarWinds canonical | 2 |
| SolarWinds MSP | 1 |
| SolarWinds Service Desk | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1622452 — 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: SolarWinds Context triple: [Silver Lake Partners, notableInvestment, SolarWinds]
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A.
New Relic
New Relic is a software analytics and application performance monitoring company that provides tools for tracking and optimizing the performance of web and mobile applications.
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B.
Duo Security
Duo Security is a cybersecurity company best known for its cloud-based multi-factor authentication and zero-trust access solutions.
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C.
AppDynamics
AppDynamics is an application performance monitoring and observability company that provides tools to track, analyze, and optimize the performance of software applications and IT infrastructure.
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D.
Syntrillium Software
Syntrillium Software was a software company best known for creating the audio editing program Cool Edit, which later evolved into Adobe Audition after Adobe acquired the firm.
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E.
Checkmarx
Checkmarx is a cybersecurity company specializing in application security testing solutions that help organizations identify and remediate vulnerabilities in their software code.
- 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: SolarWinds Target entity description: SolarWinds is an American software company best known for its IT infrastructure management tools and for being at the center of a major 2020 supply-chain cyberattack.
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A.
New Relic
New Relic is a software analytics and application performance monitoring company that provides tools for tracking and optimizing the performance of web and mobile applications.
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B.
Duo Security
Duo Security is a cybersecurity company best known for its cloud-based multi-factor authentication and zero-trust access solutions.
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C.
AppDynamics
AppDynamics is an application performance monitoring and observability company that provides tools to track, analyze, and optimize the performance of software applications and IT infrastructure.
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D.
Syntrillium Software
Syntrillium Software was a software company best known for creating the audio editing program Cool Edit, which later evolved into Adobe Audition after Adobe acquired the firm.
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E.
Checkmarx
Checkmarx is a cybersecurity company specializing in application security testing solutions that help organizations identify and remediate vulnerabilities in their software code.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
information technology company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ software company ⓘ |
| acquired |
Confio Software
ⓘ
Kiwi Enterprises ⓘ Librato ⓘ N-able Technologies ⓘ Papertrail ⓘ Pingdom ⓘ Tek-Tools ⓘ TriGeo Network Security ⓘ VividCortex ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| customersAffectedByIncident |
multiple U.S. government agencies
ⓘ
numerous private-sector organizations ⓘ |
| cyberattackAttributedTo | suspected Russian state-sponsored actors ⓘ |
| faced | regulatory investigations after 2020 cyberattack ⓘ |
| formerHeadquartersLocation |
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Tulsa, Oklahoma
|
| foundedBy |
Donald Yonce
ⓘ
surface form:
David Yonce
Donald Yonce ⓘ |
| hasBusinessModel | commercial proprietary software ⓘ |
| hasClientType |
enterprises
ⓘ
government agencies ⓘ managed service providers ⓘ small and medium-sized businesses ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Austin
ⓘ
surface form:
Austin, Texas
|
| inception | 1999 ⓘ |
| industry |
IT infrastructure management
ⓘ
database performance management ⓘ network management software ⓘ software ⓘ systems management software ⓘ |
| notableEvent | 2020 supply-chain cyberattack involving Orion software ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
Database Performance Analyzer
ⓘ
Log & Event Manager ⓘ Network Performance Monitor ⓘ Orion Platform ⓘ Server & Application Monitor ⓘ SolarWinds self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
SolarWinds Service Desk
Web Help Desk ⓘ |
| offers |
on-premises software
ⓘ
software-as-a-service solutions ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
IT infrastructure monitoring
ⓘ
IT service management ⓘ application performance monitoring ⓘ database management ⓘ log management ⓘ network performance monitoring ⓘ systems management ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| subsidiary |
N-able Technologies
ⓘ
surface form:
N-able (before spin-off)
SolarWinds self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
SolarWinds MSP
|
| tickerSymbol | SWI ⓘ |
| victimOf | 2020 SolarWinds supply-chain attack ⓘ |
| website | https://www.solarwinds.com ⓘ |
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: SolarWinds Description of subject: SolarWinds is an American software company best known for its IT infrastructure management tools and for being at the center of a major 2020 supply-chain cyberattack.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
SolarWinds Service Desk
this entity surface form:
SolarWinds MSP