Pivotal Software
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Pivotal Software is a cloud-native platform and services company known for its Pivotal Cloud Foundry product and agile software development tools, originally formed as a spin-off from EMC and VMware.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pivotal Software canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7501981 — 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: Pivotal Software Context triple: [EMC Corporation, subsidiary, Pivotal Software]
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A.
Azul Systems
Azul Systems is a software company specializing in high-performance, scalable Java runtimes and JVM technologies for enterprise applications.
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B.
Palantir Technologies
Palantir Technologies is an American software company specializing in big data analytics platforms used by governments and large enterprises for intelligence, security, and operational decision-making.
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C.
MuleSoft
MuleSoft is an integration and API management platform that helps organizations connect applications, data, and devices across cloud and on-premises environments.
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D.
New Relic
New Relic is a software analytics and application performance monitoring company that provides tools for tracking and optimizing the performance of web and mobile applications.
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E.
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.
- 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: Pivotal Software Target entity description: Pivotal Software is a cloud-native platform and services company known for its Pivotal Cloud Foundry product and agile software development tools, originally formed as a spin-off from EMC and VMware.
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A.
Azul Systems
Azul Systems is a software company specializing in high-performance, scalable Java runtimes and JVM technologies for enterprise applications.
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B.
Palantir Technologies
Palantir Technologies is an American software company specializing in big data analytics platforms used by governments and large enterprises for intelligence, security, and operational decision-making.
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C.
MuleSoft
MuleSoft is an integration and API management platform that helps organizations connect applications, data, and devices across cloud and on-premises environments.
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D.
New Relic
New Relic is a software analytics and application performance monitoring company that provides tools for tracking and optimizing the performance of web and mobile applications.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
software company
ⓘ
subsidiary ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | VMware NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2019 ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| basedOn | Cloud Foundry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focus |
DevOps practices
ⓘ
agile software development ⓘ cloud-native application development ⓘ |
| formerParentCompany |
EMC Corporation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
VMware NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
EMC Corporation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
VMware NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Francisco, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
cloud computing
ⓘ
platform as a service ⓘ professional services ⓘ software ⓘ |
| integration | VMware Tanzu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ipoDate | 2018 ⓘ |
| keyMarket |
enterprise software
ⓘ
financial services sector ⓘ public sector ⓘ telecommunications sector ⓘ |
| notableTechnology |
Greenplum Database
NERFINISHED
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Pivotal Cloud Foundry NERFINISHED ⓘ Spring Framework NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| offers |
consulting services
ⓘ
platform as a service ⓘ training services ⓘ |
| parentCompany | VMware NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| product |
Greenplum Database
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pivotal Cloud Foundry NERFINISHED ⓘ Pivotal GemFire NERFINISHED ⓘ Pivotal Labs NERFINISHED ⓘ Pivotal Tracker NERFINISHED ⓘ Spring Boot NERFINISHED ⓘ Spring Framework NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spinOffFrom |
EMC Corporation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
VMware NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | defunct as an independent company ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | PVTL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Pivotal Software Description of subject: Pivotal Software is a cloud-native platform and services company known for its Pivotal Cloud Foundry product and agile software development tools, originally formed as a spin-off from EMC and VMware.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.