Texas Instruments
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Texas Instruments is a major American technology company best known for designing and manufacturing semiconductors and calculators used worldwide.
All labels observed (13)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4958 — 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: Texas Instruments Context triple: [J. Erik Jonsson, employer, Texas Instruments]
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Tymshare
Tymshare was an influential American time-sharing and computer services company active in the 1960s–1980s that helped pioneer remote computing and software services for businesses.
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B.
De Forest Radio Telephone Company
De Forest Radio Telephone Company was an early 20th-century American firm that developed and commercialized pioneering radio and wireless telephony technologies.
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C.
Stanford Research Institute
Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) is a prominent independent nonprofit research and innovation center known for pioneering advances in computing, artificial intelligence, and other cutting-edge technologies.
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D.
Bolt Beranek and Newman
Bolt Beranek and Newman was a pioneering American research and engineering firm best known for its foundational role in developing the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern internet.
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E.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a leading global professional association dedicated to advancing technology through standards development, publications, conferences, and educational activities in electrical engineering, electronics, and related fields.
- 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: Texas Instruments Target entity description: Texas Instruments is a major American technology company best known for designing and manufacturing semiconductors and calculators used worldwide.
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A.
Tymshare
Tymshare was an influential American time-sharing and computer services company active in the 1960s–1980s that helped pioneer remote computing and software services for businesses.
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B.
De Forest Radio Telephone Company
De Forest Radio Telephone Company was an early 20th-century American firm that developed and commercialized pioneering radio and wireless telephony technologies.
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C.
Stanford Research Institute
Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) is a prominent independent nonprofit research and innovation center known for pioneering advances in computing, artificial intelligence, and other cutting-edge technologies.
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D.
Bolt Beranek and Newman
Bolt Beranek and Newman was a pioneering American research and engineering firm best known for its foundational role in developing the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern internet.
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E.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a leading global professional association dedicated to advancing technology through standards development, publications, conferences, and educational activities in electrical engineering, electronics, and related fields.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public company
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semiconductor company ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| CEO | Haviv Ilan ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| developed |
Texas Instruments
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Digital Light Processing technology
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| focusesOn |
analog semiconductors
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embedded processing ⓘ |
| formerName | Geophysical Service Incorporated ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Cecil H. Green
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Eugene McDermott ⓘ J. Erik Jonsson ⓘ Patrick E. Haggerty ⓘ |
| foundedIn | Dallas, Texas ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Analog
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Embedded Processing ⓘ Other ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfEmployees | over 30,000 ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.ti.com ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Dallas, Texas ⓘ |
| inception | 1930 ⓘ |
| industry |
consumer electronics
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embedded systems ⓘ semiconductors ⓘ |
| isListedOn |
NASDAQ-100 Index
ⓘ
S&P 500 Index ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
TI-83 Plus graphing calculator
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TI-84 Plus graphing calculator ⓘ TI-89 Titanium graphing calculator ⓘ TI-Nspire graphing calculator series ⓘ |
| notableTechnology |
Texas Instruments
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
DLP (Digital Light Processing)
|
| product |
analog integrated circuits
ⓘ
digital signal processors ⓘ embedded processors ⓘ financial calculators ⓘ graphing calculators ⓘ microcontrollers ⓘ scientific calculators ⓘ |
| servesIndustry |
automotive
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communications equipment ⓘ enterprise systems ⓘ industrial ⓘ personal electronics ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
power management ICs
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signal chain ICs ⓘ wireless connectivity ICs ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | TXN ⓘ |
| type | publicly traded corporation ⓘ |
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: Texas Instruments Description of subject: Texas Instruments is a major American technology company best known for designing and manufacturing semiconductors and calculators used worldwide.
Referenced by (80)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Texas Instruments Incorporated
this entity surface form:
TI OMAP
this entity surface form:
Texas Instruments mixed-signal integrated circuits