MySQL AB
E428638
MySQL AB was the Swedish company that developed and commercially supported the popular open-source MySQL relational database management system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MySQL AB canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4278959 — 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: MySQL AB Context triple: [Michael Widenius, employer, MySQL AB]
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A.
MySQL
MySQL is a widely used open-source relational database management system known for its reliability, performance, and role in powering many web applications and services.
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B.
MariaDB
MariaDB is an open-source relational database management system, forked from MySQL, known for its compatibility, performance, and community-driven development.
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C.
MariaDB Corporation
MariaDB Corporation is a software company that develops and supports the MariaDB open-source relational database, a popular alternative to MySQL for enterprise and cloud applications.
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D.
MariaDB Foundation
MariaDB Foundation is a non-profit organization that oversees the development, governance, and community ecosystem of the open-source MariaDB database.
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E.
InnoDB storage engine
InnoDB storage engine is a widely used transactional storage engine for MySQL that provides ACID compliance, row-level locking, and crash recovery for reliable, high-performance database operations.
- 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: MySQL AB Target entity description: MySQL AB was the Swedish company that developed and commercially supported the popular open-source MySQL relational database management system.
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A.
MySQL
MySQL is a widely used open-source relational database management system known for its reliability, performance, and role in powering many web applications and services.
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B.
MariaDB
MariaDB is an open-source relational database management system, forked from MySQL, known for its compatibility, performance, and community-driven development.
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C.
MariaDB Corporation
MariaDB Corporation is a software company that develops and supports the MariaDB open-source relational database, a popular alternative to MySQL for enterprise and cloud applications.
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D.
MariaDB Foundation
MariaDB Foundation is a non-profit organization that oversees the development, governance, and community ecosystem of the open-source MariaDB database.
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E.
InnoDB storage engine
InnoDB storage engine is a widely used transactional storage engine for MySQL that provides ACID compliance, row-level locking, and crash recovery for reliable, high-performance database operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
privately held company
ⓘ
software company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Sun Microsystems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2008 ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | 1000000000 USD ⓘ |
| businessModel |
dual licensing
ⓘ
support and services ⓘ |
| ceasedToExist | after 2008 acquisition ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Sweden ⓘ |
| developed | MySQL database server NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employed | developers of MySQL ⓘ |
| fate | acquired by Sun Microsystems ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Allan Larsson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Axmark NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Widenius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Cupertino, California, United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stockholm, Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ Uppsala, Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1995 ⓘ |
| industry |
database software
ⓘ
software ⓘ |
| licenseManagedForProduct | commercial MySQL licenses ⓘ |
| notableEmployee |
David Axmark
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Martensson Allan Larsson NERFINISHED ⓘ Monty Widenius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | developing the MySQL open-source RDBMS ⓘ |
| numberOfEmployees | 400+ ⓘ |
| numberOfEmployeesDate | 2007 ⓘ |
| offered |
MySQL Enterprise Edition
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
MySQL Network subscription ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Sun Microsystems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryProgrammingLanguageOfProduct |
C
ⓘ
C++ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| product | MySQL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productType | relational database management system ⓘ |
| provided |
certification for MySQL
ⓘ
commercial support for MySQL ⓘ consulting services for MySQL ⓘ training for MySQL ⓘ |
| softwareLicenseManaged | GNU General Public License NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Oracle Corporation (MySQL division) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportedProject | MySQL Community Edition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetCustomer |
enterprises
ⓘ
software developers ⓘ web hosting providers ⓘ |
| website | https://www.mysql.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: MySQL AB Description of subject: MySQL AB was the Swedish company that developed and commercially supported the popular open-source MySQL relational database management system.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.