iRobot
E251534
iRobot is an American technology company best known for creating the Roomba line of autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners and other consumer robots.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| iRobot canonical | 3 |
| Braava | 1 |
| Braava jet | 1 |
| Roomba | 1 |
| Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners | 1 |
| Terra lawn mower robot | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2265110 — 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: iRobot Context triple: [Rodney Brooks, coFounderOf, iRobot]
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A.
Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics is an American engineering and robotics company renowned for creating advanced, highly mobile robots such as Atlas, Spot, and Handle.
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B.
Dyson
Dyson is a surname most famously associated with theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson, known for his influential work in quantum electrodynamics and futurism.
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C.
Nest Labs
Nest Labs is a home automation company best known for its smart thermostats, smoke detectors, and security cameras that helped popularize the modern smart home market.
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D.
KUKA
KUKA is a German industrial robotics and automation company known for its advanced robotic arms used in manufacturing and entertainment applications.
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E.
Nadia humanoid robot
Nadia is a state-of-the-art humanoid robot platform designed for advanced research in robotics, locomotion, and human-robot interaction.
- 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: iRobot Target entity description: iRobot is an American technology company best known for creating the Roomba line of autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners and other consumer robots.
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A.
Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics is an American engineering and robotics company renowned for creating advanced, highly mobile robots such as Atlas, Spot, and Handle.
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B.
Dyson
Dyson is a surname most famously associated with theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson, known for his influential work in quantum electrodynamics and futurism.
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C.
Nest Labs
Nest Labs is a home automation company best known for its smart thermostats, smoke detectors, and security cameras that helped popularize the modern smart home market.
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D.
KUKA
KUKA is a German industrial robotics and automation company known for its advanced robotic arms used in manufacturing and entertainment applications.
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E.
Nadia humanoid robot
Nadia is a state-of-the-art humanoid robot platform designed for advanced research in robotics, locomotion, and human-robot interaction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public company
ⓘ
robotics company ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| bestKnownFor |
iRobot
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners
|
| Colin AngleRole | chief executive officer ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| develops |
autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners
ⓘ
consumer robots ⓘ educational robots ⓘ floor-mopping robots ⓘ |
| foundedAsSpinOffFrom | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Colin Angle
ⓘ
Helen Greiner ⓘ Rodney Brooks ⓘ |
| hasBusinessModel |
connected home services
ⓘ
consumer hardware sales ⓘ |
| hasEmployeeType |
engineers
ⓘ
roboticists ⓘ software developers ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson | Colin Angle ⓘ |
| hasMarket |
Asia
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| hasTechnology |
Wi‑Fi connected devices
ⓘ
autonomous navigation ⓘ home mapping and localization ⓘ mobile app control ⓘ robotic mapping ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Bedford, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| inception | 1990 ⓘ |
| industry |
consumer robotics
ⓘ
home appliances ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
iRobot
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Braava
iRobot self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Braava jet
Create ⓘ Create 2 ⓘ Looj ⓘ Mirra ⓘ iRobot self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Roomba
Scooba ⓘ iRobot self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Terra lawn mower robot
|
| previousHeadquartersLocation |
Burlington, Massachusetts, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Burlington, Massachusetts
|
| productCategory |
home cleaning robots
ⓘ
robotic mops ⓘ robotic vacuum cleaners ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | IRBT ⓘ |
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: iRobot Description of subject: iRobot is an American technology company best known for creating the Roomba line of autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners and other consumer robots.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Roomba
this entity surface form:
Braava
this entity surface form:
Braava jet
this entity surface form:
Terra lawn mower robot
this entity surface form:
Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners