Visigenic Software
E209544
Visigenic Software was a software company known for its early work in distributed object computing and CORBA-based middleware solutions before being acquired by Borland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Visigenic Software canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1884987 — 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: Visigenic Software Context triple: [Borland, acquired, Visigenic Software]
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A.
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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B.
Wyatt Software
Wyatt Software was a software company known for employing pioneering programmer Ward Cunningham early in his career.
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C.
Genivar Inc.
Genivar Inc. was a Canadian engineering and professional services firm that grew through acquisitions and later rebranded as WSP Global.
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D.
Varien Inc.
Varien Inc. is the original company behind the creation and launch of the Magento e-commerce platform.
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E.
Immunix
Immunix was a security-focused software company known for developing Linux security technologies, including the precursor to the AppArmor mandatory access control system.
- 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: Visigenic Software Target entity description: Visigenic Software was a software company known for its early work in distributed object computing and CORBA-based middleware solutions before being acquired by Borland.
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A.
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.
-
B.
Wyatt Software
Wyatt Software was a software company known for employing pioneering programmer Ward Cunningham early in his career.
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C.
Genivar Inc.
Genivar Inc. was a Canadian engineering and professional services firm that grew through acquisitions and later rebranded as WSP Global.
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D.
Varien Inc.
Varien Inc. is the original company behind the creation and launch of the Magento e-commerce platform.
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E.
Immunix
Immunix was a security-focused software company known for developing Linux security technologies, including the precursor to the AppArmor mandatory access control system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | software company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Borland ⓘ |
| acquisitionType | corporate acquisition ⓘ |
| businessModel | enterprise software ⓘ |
| category | defunct software companies of the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developed | Visibroker ⓘ |
| field |
distributed object computing
ⓘ
middleware ⓘ |
| focus |
cross-platform interoperability
ⓘ
language-independent distributed objects ⓘ |
| industry | software ⓘ |
| integrationWith | enterprise applications ⓘ |
| knownFor |
CORBA-based middleware solutions
ⓘ
early work in distributed object computing ⓘ |
| laterPartOf | Borland ⓘ |
| notableContribution | commercialization of CORBA ORB technology ⓘ |
| product | Visibroker ⓘ |
| productType | CORBA-based middleware ⓘ |
| provided | object middleware infrastructure ⓘ |
| softwareGenre |
distributed computing platform
ⓘ
middleware platform ⓘ |
| specialization | object request broker software ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| supportedStandard |
Common Object Request Broker Architecture
ⓘ
surface form:
OMG CORBA
|
| targetMarket |
distributed systems developers
ⓘ
enterprise application developers ⓘ |
| technologyStandard |
Common Object Request Broker Architecture
ⓘ
surface form:
CORBA
|
| type | privately held company ⓘ |
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: Visigenic Software Description of subject: Visigenic Software was a software company known for its early work in distributed object computing and CORBA-based middleware solutions before being acquired by Borland.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.