Loudcloud
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Loudcloud was a pioneering early-2000s cloud and managed hosting company co-founded by Marc Andreessen that later evolved into the software firm Opsware.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Loudcloud canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T374229 — 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: Loudcloud Context triple: [Marc Andreessen, coFounded, Loudcloud]
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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.
Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies is a U.S.-based telecommunications and technology company that provides internet, networking, cloud, and security services to businesses and consumers.
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C.
BEA Systems
BEA Systems was a software company best known for its enterprise middleware and application server products that played a major role in early Java-based web and enterprise computing.
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D.
VeriSign
VeriSign is an American technology company best known for operating key internet infrastructure, including managing the .com and .net top-level domains and providing critical DNS and security services.
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E.
Red Hat
Red Hat is a leading American open-source software company best known for its enterprise Linux distribution and related cloud and middleware solutions.
- 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: Loudcloud Target entity description: Loudcloud was a pioneering early-2000s cloud and managed hosting company co-founded by Marc Andreessen that later evolved into the software firm Opsware.
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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.
Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies is a U.S.-based telecommunications and technology company that provides internet, networking, cloud, and security services to businesses and consumers.
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C.
BEA Systems
BEA Systems was a software company best known for its enterprise middleware and application server products that played a major role in early Java-based web and enterprise computing.
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D.
VeriSign
VeriSign is an American technology company best known for operating key internet infrastructure, including managing the .com and .net top-level domains and providing critical DNS and security services.
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E.
Red Hat
Red Hat is a leading American open-source software company best known for its enterprise Linux distribution and related cloud and middleware solutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cloud computing company
ⓘ
managed hosting provider ⓘ |
| afterSaleRenamedAs | Opsware ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Netscape alumni ⓘ |
| businessModel |
infrastructure outsourcing
ⓘ
managed hosting services ⓘ |
| coFounder |
Ben Horowitz
ⓘ
In Sik Rhee ⓘ Marc Andreessen ⓘ Tim Howes ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developedInto | Opsware ⓘ |
| era | dot-com era ⓘ |
| focusAfterTransition | data center automation software ⓘ |
| founded | 1999 ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Ben Horowitz
ⓘ
In Sik Rhee ⓘ Marc Andreessen ⓘ Tim Howes ⓘ |
| foundedByBackground | former Netscape executives ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Silicon Valley
ⓘ
Sunnyvale, California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Sunnyvale, California
|
| industry |
cloud computing
ⓘ
managed hosting ⓘ software ⓘ |
| keyProduct | Opsware automation software ⓘ |
| notableExecutive |
Ben Horowitz
ⓘ
Marc Andreessen ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early cloud infrastructure automation
ⓘ
pioneering managed hosting in the early 2000s ⓘ |
| parentCompanyAfterHostingSale | Electronic Data Systems ⓘ |
| providedService |
application hosting
ⓘ
infrastructure management ⓘ operations outsourcing ⓘ |
| saleOfHostingBusinessYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| servedClientsType |
internet businesses
ⓘ
large enterprises ⓘ |
| soldHostingBusinessTo |
EDS
ⓘ
Electronic Data Systems ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| successor | Opsware ⓘ |
| targetMarket |
dot-com startups
ⓘ
enterprise web applications ⓘ |
| technologyFocus | infrastructure management automation ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | LDCL ⓘ |
| wentPublicOn | 2001-03-09 ⓘ |
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: Loudcloud Description of subject: Loudcloud was a pioneering early-2000s cloud and managed hosting company co-founded by Marc Andreessen that later evolved into the software firm Opsware.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.