Symantec
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Symantec is a cybersecurity and software company best known for its Norton antivirus products and enterprise security solutions.
All labels observed (11)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1712144 — 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 Context triple: [VeriSign, soldTo, Symantec]
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A.
Norton
Norton is a residential suburb within the town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England.
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B.
Norton
Norton is a small town in Bristol County, southeastern Massachusetts, known for being home to Wheaton College and several scenic ponds and conservation areas.
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C.
Norton
Norton is a dark-skinned American grape variety, historically significant in Midwestern and Eastern U.S. winemaking for producing deeply colored, full-bodied red wines with notable disease resistance.
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D.
Norton
Norton is a surname of English origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as literature, politics, and the arts.
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E.
SolarWinds
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.
- 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 Target entity description: Symantec is a cybersecurity and software company best known for its Norton antivirus products and enterprise security solutions.
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A.
Norton
Norton is a residential suburb within the town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England.
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B.
Norton
Norton is a small town in Bristol County, southeastern Massachusetts, known for being home to Wheaton College and several scenic ponds and conservation areas.
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C.
Norton
Norton is a dark-skinned American grape variety, historically significant in Midwestern and Eastern U.S. winemaking for producing deeply colored, full-bodied red wines with notable disease resistance.
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D.
Norton
Norton is a surname of English origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as literature, politics, and the arts.
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E.
SolarWinds
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cybersecurity company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ software company ⓘ |
| acquired |
Blue Coat Systems
ⓘ
LifeLock ⓘ MessageLabs ⓘ PGP Corporation ⓘ Veritas Software ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| brandOwnedBy |
Symantec
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
NortonLifeLock
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dateOfTransaction | 2019 ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
cybersecurity services
ⓘ
information protection ⓘ threat protection ⓘ |
| formerHeadquartersLocation |
Cupertino
ⓘ
surface form:
Cupertino, California
Mountain View, California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Mountain View, California
|
| foundedBy |
Dennis Coleman
ⓘ
Doug McKendall ⓘ Gary Hendrix ⓘ |
| hasCompetitor |
Kaspersky Lab
ⓘ
McAfee ⓘ Microsoft ⓘ Sophos ⓘ Trend Micro ⓘ |
| hasCustomerType |
consumers
ⓘ
large enterprises ⓘ small and medium businesses ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Tempe, Arizona, USA
ⓘ
surface form:
Tempe, Arizona
|
| inception | 1982 ⓘ |
| industry |
computer software
ⓘ
cybersecurity ⓘ |
| notableBrand | Norton ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
Norton
ⓘ
surface form:
Norton 360
Norton Antivirus ⓘ
surface form:
Norton AntiVirus
Norton Antivirus ⓘ
surface form:
Norton Security
Symantec self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Symantec Data Loss Prevention
Symantec self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Symantec Email Security.cloud
Symantec self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Symantec Endpoint Protection
Symantec self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Symantec Web Security Service
|
| productCategory |
antivirus software
ⓘ
cloud security services ⓘ data loss prevention software ⓘ email security software ⓘ endpoint security software ⓘ information security software ⓘ |
| sold | enterprise security business ⓘ |
| soldBusinessUnitTo |
Broadcom
ⓘ
surface form:
Broadcom Inc.
|
| successor |
Symantec
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
NortonLifeLock
|
| tickerSymbol | SYMC ⓘ |
| tradedOn | NASDAQ ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Symantec is a cybersecurity and software company best known for its Norton antivirus products and enterprise security solutions.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Symantec (historically)
this entity surface form:
Symantec Corporation
this entity surface form:
Symantec Corporation
this entity surface form:
Symantec Endpoint Protection
this entity surface form:
Symantec Data Loss Prevention
this entity surface form:
Symantec Email Security.cloud
this entity surface form:
Symantec Web Security Service
this entity surface form:
NortonLifeLock
this entity surface form:
NortonLifeLock Inc.
this entity surface form:
Symantec Corporation (consumer business)
this entity surface form:
NortonLifeLock Inc.