Micro Focus
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Micro Focus is a British multinational software and information technology company known for providing enterprise-level application modernization, testing, and management solutions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Micro Focus canonical | 3 |
| Micro Focus International | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1884988 — 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: Micro Focus Context triple: [Borland, acquiredBy, Micro Focus]
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A.
Symantec
Symantec is a cybersecurity and software company best known for its Norton antivirus products and enterprise security solutions.
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B.
Capgemini
Capgemini is a global consulting, technology services, and digital transformation company headquartered in France.
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C.
HCL Technologies
HCL Technologies is a global Indian IT services and consulting company known for providing software development, infrastructure management, and digital transformation solutions to enterprises worldwide.
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D.
Novell
Novell was a prominent software company best known for its NetWare network operating system and contributions to enterprise networking and Linux technologies.
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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: Micro Focus Target entity description: Micro Focus is a British multinational software and information technology company known for providing enterprise-level application modernization, testing, and management solutions.
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A.
Symantec
Symantec is a cybersecurity and software company best known for its Norton antivirus products and enterprise security solutions.
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B.
Capgemini
Capgemini is a global consulting, technology services, and digital transformation company headquartered in France.
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C.
HCL Technologies
HCL Technologies is a global Indian IT services and consulting company known for providing software development, infrastructure management, and digital transformation solutions to enterprises worldwide.
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D.
Novell
Novell was a prominent software company best known for its NetWare network operating system and contributions to enterprise networking and Linux technologies.
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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 (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
multinational company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ software company ⓘ |
| acquired |
The Attachmate Group
ⓘ
surface form:
Attachmate Group
Borland ⓘ Novell ⓘ
surface form:
Novell (through Attachmate Group)
SUSE ⓘ
surface form:
SUSE (through Attachmate Group, later divested)
Serena Software ⓘ |
| acquiredFrom |
HP software
ⓘ
surface form:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise software business
|
| completedAcquisitionOfHPESoftwareBusiness | 2017 ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| focusesOnCustomerType |
government organizations
ⓘ
large enterprises ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Brian Reynolds
ⓘ
Paul O’Grady ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1976 ⓘ |
| hasGlobalPresenceIn |
Asia-Pacific
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfPrimaryOperation | English ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Newbury, Berkshire
ⓘ
surface form:
Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom
|
| industry |
enterprise software
ⓘ
information technology ⓘ software ⓘ |
| offersProduct |
ALM/Quality Center
ⓘ
ArcSight ⓘ Enterprise Developer ⓘ Enterprise Server ⓘ Fortify ⓘ LoadRunner (performance testing) ⓘ NetIQ ⓘ UFT One (Unified Functional Testing) ⓘ Voltage SecureData ⓘ |
| provides |
DevOps tools
ⓘ
IT management solutions ⓘ enterprise-level application modernization solutions ⓘ information governance solutions ⓘ security and risk management software ⓘ testing solutions ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
COBOL development tools
ⓘ
IT operations management ⓘ IT service management ⓘ application lifecycle management ⓘ application modernization ⓘ information management and governance ⓘ mainframe modernization ⓘ software testing ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing | London Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | MCRO ⓘ |
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: Micro Focus Description of subject: Micro Focus is a British multinational software and information technology company known for providing enterprise-level application modernization, testing, and management solutions.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Micro Focus International
this entity surface form:
Micro Focus International
this entity surface form:
Micro Focus International
subject surface form:
PVCS
subject surface form:
StarTeam