Kronos Incorporated
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Kronos Incorporated was a workforce management and human capital management software company best known for its timekeeping, scheduling, and HR solutions used by organizations worldwide.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kronos Incorporated canonical | 2 |
| Ultimate Kronos Group | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3429786 — 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: Kronos Incorporated Context triple: [Ultimate Software, mergedWith, Kronos Incorporated]
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A.
Cybus Industries
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B.
Hercules Inc.
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C.
Marcus Corporation
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D.
Vulcan Inc.
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E.
Saturn Corporation
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- 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: Kronos Incorporated Target entity description: Kronos Incorporated was a workforce management and human capital management software company best known for its timekeeping, scheduling, and HR solutions used by organizations worldwide.
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A.
Cybus Industries
Cybus Industries is a powerful fictional technology conglomerate in the Doctor Who universe, best known for creating an alternate-universe version of the Cybermen.
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B.
Hercules Inc.
Hercules Inc. was a major American chemical manufacturing company known for producing a wide range of industrial and military chemicals, including controversial defoliants used during the Vietnam War.
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C.
Marcus Corporation
Marcus Corporation is a U.S.-based company best known for its movie theatre and hospitality businesses, including operating cinema chains and hotels.
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D.
Vulcan Inc.
Vulcan Inc. is a private company founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen that manages his business, real estate, sports, and philanthropic ventures.
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E.
Saturn Corporation
Saturn Corporation was a former General Motors automobile brand created in the 1980s to compete with Japanese imports, known for its small cars and distinctive no-haggle sales model.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
private company
ⓘ
software company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Blackstone Group
ⓘ
Hellman & Friedman ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| brand |
UKG Workforce Central (legacy)
ⓘ
surface form:
Kronos Workforce Central
Kronos Workforce Dimensions ⓘ Kronos Workforce Ready ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| customerFocus |
enterprise organizations
ⓘ
healthcare organizations ⓘ hospitality organizations ⓘ manufacturing organizations ⓘ public sector organizations ⓘ retail organizations ⓘ small and medium-sized businesses ⓘ |
| dissolved | 2020 ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | UKG ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Mark S. Ain ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | Kronos ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Chelmsford, Massachusetts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lowell, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1977 ⓘ |
| industry |
human capital management software
ⓘ
workforce management software ⓘ |
| mergedWith | Ultimate Software ⓘ |
| mergerDate | 2020 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
employee scheduling solutions
ⓘ
human capital management solutions ⓘ timekeeping solutions ⓘ workforce management solutions ⓘ |
| numberOfEmployees | over 6000 ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Asia-Pacific
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| ownedBy | private equity investors ⓘ |
| product |
absence management software
ⓘ
human resources software ⓘ payroll software ⓘ time and attendance software ⓘ workforce analytics software ⓘ workforce scheduling software ⓘ |
| softwareType |
cloud-based software
ⓘ
on-premises software ⓘ |
| successor |
UKG
ⓘ
UKG Inc. ⓘ |
| website | https://www.kronos.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: Kronos Incorporated Description of subject: Kronos Incorporated was a workforce management and human capital management software company best known for its timekeeping, scheduling, and HR solutions used by organizations worldwide.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ultimate Kronos Group
this entity surface form:
Ultimate Kronos Group