Intentional Software
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Intentional Software was a software company focused on developing tools for intentional programming and domain-specific software design, founded by former Microsoft executive Charles Simonyi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Intentional Software canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6179070 — 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)
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Target entity: Intentional Software Context triple: [Charles Simonyi, founded, Intentional Software]
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A.
Intention
Intention is a highly influential 1957 philosophical work by Elizabeth Anscombe that reshaped contemporary debates about action, intention, and practical reasoning.
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B.
Pure Software
Pure Software was a software company best known as Reed Hastings’s early venture in developing tools to improve software reliability before he went on to co-found Netflix.
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C.
Nihilistic Software
Nihilistic Software was an American video game development studio known for creating titles such as Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption and early entries in the Call of Duty spin-off series.
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D.
How to Break Software
"How to Break Software" is a practical software testing book that teaches systematic techniques for finding defects by thinking like an attacker of software systems.
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E.
Interactive Software Engineering
Interactive Software Engineering was a software company founded by Bertrand Meyer, best known for developing the Eiffel programming language and promoting object-oriented software engineering methods.
- 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: Intentional Software Target entity description: Intentional Software was a software company focused on developing tools for intentional programming and domain-specific software design, founded by former Microsoft executive Charles Simonyi.
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A.
Intention
Intention is a highly influential 1957 philosophical work by Elizabeth Anscombe that reshaped contemporary debates about action, intention, and practical reasoning.
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B.
Pure Software
Pure Software was a software company best known as Reed Hastings’s early venture in developing tools to improve software reliability before he went on to co-found Netflix.
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C.
Nihilistic Software
Nihilistic Software was an American video game development studio known for creating titles such as Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption and early entries in the Call of Duty spin-off series.
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D.
How to Break Software
"How to Break Software" is a practical software testing book that teaches systematic techniques for finding defects by thinking like an attacker of software systems.
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E.
Interactive Software Engineering
Interactive Software Engineering was a software company founded by Bertrand Meyer, best known for developing the Eiffel programming language and promoting object-oriented software engineering methods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | software company ⓘ |
| approach |
domain-specific modeling
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intentional programming ⓘ |
| basedOnConcept | intentional programming ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| focus |
domain-specific software design
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intentional programming ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Charles Simonyi
NERFINISHED
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former Microsoft executive ⓘ |
| founder | Charles Simonyi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| goal |
enable domain experts to express intent directly
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improve productivity of software development ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
domain-specific languages
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model-driven software development ⓘ separation of intent from implementation ⓘ |
| hasFormerEmployee | Charles Simonyi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFounderBackground | Microsoft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFounderRoleAtMicrosoft |
chief architect of Microsoft Office
ⓘ
executive ⓘ |
| hasIntellectualFocus |
domain-specific languages research
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programmer productivity ⓘ software abstraction ⓘ |
| industry | software ⓘ |
| keyPerson | Charles Simonyi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
domain-specific development environments
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tools for intentional programming ⓘ |
| productType | software development tools ⓘ |
| status | defunct company ⓘ |
| targetUser |
domain experts
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software developers ⓘ |
| websiteStatus | defunct ⓘ |
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: Intentional Software Description of subject: Intentional Software was a software company focused on developing tools for intentional programming and domain-specific software design, founded by former Microsoft executive Charles Simonyi.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.