Electronic Data Systems
E259816
Electronic Data Systems was a major American information technology services company known for providing outsourcing, consulting, and systems integration solutions to large enterprises and governments worldwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Electronic Data Systems canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2365545 — 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: Electronic Data Systems Context triple: [Loudcloud, soldHostingBusinessTo, Electronic Data Systems]
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A.
Perot Systems
Perot Systems was an American information technology services and consulting company founded by Ross Perot that provided outsourcing, systems integration, and technology solutions to businesses and governments worldwide.
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B.
NCR Corporation
NCR Corporation is a global technology company best known for its point-of-sale systems, ATMs, and other financial and retail transaction solutions.
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C.
Alliance Data Systems
Alliance Data Systems is a U.S.-based provider of data-driven marketing, loyalty, and private-label credit card services for retailers and other consumer-facing businesses.
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D.
Siebel Systems
Siebel Systems was a leading enterprise software company best known for pioneering customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for large organizations.
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E.
Massachusetts Computer Associates
Massachusetts Computer Associates was a pioneering computer science research and software development company active in the 1960s–1970s, known for employing influential computer scientists such as Leslie Lamport.
- 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: Electronic Data Systems Target entity description: Electronic Data Systems was a major American information technology services company known for providing outsourcing, consulting, and systems integration solutions to large enterprises and governments worldwide.
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A.
Perot Systems
Perot Systems was an American information technology services and consulting company founded by Ross Perot that provided outsourcing, systems integration, and technology solutions to businesses and governments worldwide.
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B.
NCR Corporation
NCR Corporation is a global technology company best known for its point-of-sale systems, ATMs, and other financial and retail transaction solutions.
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C.
Alliance Data Systems
Alliance Data Systems is a U.S.-based provider of data-driven marketing, loyalty, and private-label credit card services for retailers and other consumer-facing businesses.
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D.
Siebel Systems
Siebel Systems was a leading enterprise software company best known for pioneering customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for large organizations.
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E.
Massachusetts Computer Associates
Massachusetts Computer Associates was a pioneering computer science research and software development company active in the 1960s–1970s, known for employing influential computer scientists such as Leslie Lamport.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
information technology services company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Hewlett-Packard ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2008 ⓘ |
| brandName | EDS ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dissolvedDate | 2009 ⓘ |
| fate | acquired by Hewlett-Packard ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Ross Perot ⓘ |
| foundedInCity | Dallas ⓘ |
| foundedInCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| foundedInState | Texas ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1962 ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson |
Michael H. Jordan
ⓘ
Richard H. Brown ⓘ Ronald A. Rittenmeyer ⓘ Ross Perot ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Plano, Texas
ⓘ
Texas ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| industry |
consulting
ⓘ
information technology services ⓘ outsourcing ⓘ systems integration ⓘ |
| mergedInto | HP Enterprise Services ⓘ |
| notableClientSector |
financial services
ⓘ
government ⓘ healthcare ⓘ manufacturing ⓘ |
| notableEvent | played a major role in the growth of the IT outsourcing industry ⓘ |
| notableFounderRole |
Ross Perot
ⓘ
surface form:
Ross Perot was a former IBM salesman
|
| notablePeriod | became one of the largest IT services firms in the world in the 1980s and 1990s ⓘ |
| notableService |
IT consulting
ⓘ
IT outsourcing ⓘ application development ⓘ business process outsourcing ⓘ infrastructure management ⓘ systems integration ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Hewlett-Packard ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hewlett-Packard
ⓘ
surface form:
Hewlett-Packard Company
|
| servedClientType |
governments
ⓘ
large enterprises ⓘ |
| serviceArea | worldwide ⓘ |
| successor | HP Enterprise Services ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | EDS ⓘ |
| tradedOn | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| website | http://www.eds.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: Electronic Data Systems Description of subject: Electronic Data Systems was a major American information technology services company known for providing outsourcing, consulting, and systems integration solutions to large enterprises and governments worldwide.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.