Opsware
E47370
Opsware was a data center automation and IT infrastructure management software company, best known for being co-founded by Marc Andreessen and later acquired by Hewlett-Packard.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Opsware canonical | 14 |
| Opsware (from Loudcloud) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T374230 — 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: Opsware Context triple: [Marc Andreessen, coFounded, Opsware]
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A.
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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B.
Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies was a major American telecommunications equipment company, spun off from AT&T, known for its Bell Labs research arm and contributions to networking and communications technology.
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C.
Siebel Systems
Siebel Systems was a leading enterprise software company best known for pioneering customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for large organizations.
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D.
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems is a multinational technology conglomerate best known for designing and selling networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment used worldwide.
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E.
PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft is an enterprise software company best known for its human resources and financial management applications, later integrated into Oracle’s product portfolio.
- 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: Opsware Target entity description: Opsware was a data center automation and IT infrastructure management software company, best known for being co-founded by Marc Andreessen and later acquired by Hewlett-Packard.
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A.
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.
-
B.
Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies was a major American telecommunications equipment company, spun off from AT&T, known for its Bell Labs research arm and contributions to networking and communications technology.
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C.
Siebel Systems
Siebel Systems was a leading enterprise software company best known for pioneering customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for large organizations.
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D.
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems is a multinational technology conglomerate best known for designing and selling networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment used worldwide.
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E.
PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft is an enterprise software company best known for its human resources and financial management applications, later integrated into Oracle’s product portfolio.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
data center automation company
ⓘ
software company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Hewlett-Packard
ⓘ
surface form:
HP
Hewlett-Packard ⓘ |
| acquisitionType | corporate acquisition ⓘ |
| businessModel | enterprise software ⓘ |
| category |
defunct software company
ⓘ
defunct technology company of the United States ⓘ |
| coFoundedBy | Marc Andreessen ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| deploymentModel | on-premises software ⓘ |
| focus |
automation of IT infrastructure
ⓘ
reducing manual data center operations ⓘ |
| industry | information technology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
IT infrastructure management software
ⓘ
data center automation software ⓘ |
| notableFounder | Marc Andreessen ⓘ |
| notablePersonAssociated | Marc Andreessen ⓘ |
| parentCompanyAfterAcquisition |
Hewlett-Packard
ⓘ
surface form:
HP Software division
Hewlett-Packard ⓘ |
| predecessorName | Loudcloud ⓘ |
| productType |
IT operations management software
ⓘ
data center automation platform ⓘ |
| softwareDomain |
IT infrastructure lifecycle management
ⓘ
configuration management ⓘ network automation ⓘ server provisioning ⓘ |
| targetUsers |
IT operations teams
ⓘ
data centers ⓘ large enterprises ⓘ |
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: Opsware Description of subject: Opsware was a data center automation and IT infrastructure management software company, best known for being co-founded by Marc Andreessen and later acquired by Hewlett-Packard.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Opsware (from Loudcloud)
subject surface form:
Loudcloud