QLogic
E267720
QLogic is a technology company best known for manufacturing high-performance storage networking hardware such as Fibre Channel host bus adapters and switches used in enterprise data centers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| QLogic canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2447702 — 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: QLogic Context triple: [Fibre Channel, switchVendor, QLogic]
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A.
Mellanox Technologies
Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of high-performance interconnect solutions, including InfiniBand and Ethernet products, widely used in data centers, supercomputers, and cloud infrastructures.
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B.
Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks is a multinational networking and cybersecurity company known for its high-performance routers, switches, and related infrastructure solutions for service providers and enterprises.
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C.
LSI Logic
LSI Logic was a semiconductor company best known for designing and manufacturing custom and standard integrated circuits, particularly ASICs and storage-related chips, for computing and communications markets.
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D.
EMC Corporation
EMC Corporation was a leading American multinational company specializing in data storage, information security, and cloud computing solutions before its acquisition by Dell.
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E.
HPE (via switches and adapters)
HPE (via switches and adapters) is a leading enterprise technology provider that supplies InfiniBand-based networking hardware to support high-performance computing and data center environments.
- 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: QLogic Target entity description: QLogic is a technology company best known for manufacturing high-performance storage networking hardware such as Fibre Channel host bus adapters and switches used in enterprise data centers.
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A.
Mellanox Technologies
Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of high-performance interconnect solutions, including InfiniBand and Ethernet products, widely used in data centers, supercomputers, and cloud infrastructures.
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B.
Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks is a multinational networking and cybersecurity company known for its high-performance routers, switches, and related infrastructure solutions for service providers and enterprises.
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C.
LSI Logic
LSI Logic was a semiconductor company best known for designing and manufacturing custom and standard integrated circuits, particularly ASICs and storage-related chips, for computing and communications markets.
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D.
EMC Corporation
EMC Corporation was a leading American multinational company specializing in data storage, information security, and cloud computing solutions before its acquisition by Dell.
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E.
HPE (via switches and adapters)
HPE (via switches and adapters) is a leading enterprise technology provider that supplies InfiniBand-based networking hardware to support high-performance computing and data center environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hardware manufacturer
ⓘ
technology company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Marvell Technology
ⓘ
surface form:
Cavium
|
| acquisitionYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| customerType |
enterprise IT departments
ⓘ
original equipment manufacturers ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Aliso Viejo, California ⓘ |
| industry |
computer hardware
ⓘ
data center networking ⓘ storage networking ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Fibre Channel HBAs
ⓘ
Fibre Channel switches ⓘ high-performance storage networking hardware ⓘ |
| market |
data center infrastructure
ⓘ
enterprise storage ⓘ |
| productType |
Ethernet adapter
ⓘ
Fibre Channel host bus adapter ⓘ Fibre Channel switch ⓘ converged network adapter ⓘ iSCSI adapter ⓘ |
| protocolSupported |
Ethernet
ⓘ
Fibre Channel ⓘ iSCSI ⓘ |
| provides |
adapter cards for servers
ⓘ
switches for storage networks ⓘ |
| regionServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| roleInEcosystem |
component supplier to major server vendors
ⓘ
infrastructure provider for SANs ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
Fibre Channel
ⓘ
surface form:
Fibre Channel Industry Association standards
|
| targetEnvironment |
high-availability storage systems
ⓘ
mission-critical enterprise workloads ⓘ |
| technologyFocus |
data center networking
ⓘ
server I/O ⓘ storage connectivity ⓘ |
| useCase |
enterprise data centers
ⓘ
server connectivity to SANs ⓘ storage area networks ⓘ |
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: QLogic Description of subject: QLogic is a technology company best known for manufacturing high-performance storage networking hardware such as Fibre Channel host bus adapters and switches used in enterprise data centers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Fibre Channel