Iomega
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Iomega was a data storage company best known for its Zip and Jaz drives, later acquired and operated as a subsidiary of EMC Corporation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iomega canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7501982 — 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: Iomega Context triple: [EMC Corporation, subsidiary, Iomega]
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A.
Maxtor Tower
Maxtor Tower is a historic defensive tower that forms part of the medieval fortifications of Nuremberg, Germany.
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B.
Seagate Technology
Seagate Technology is a leading American data storage company best known for manufacturing hard disk drives and other storage solutions for consumer and enterprise markets.
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C.
LaCie
LaCie is a premium computer storage hardware brand known for its stylish, design-focused external drives and professional storage solutions.
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D.
Western Digital
Western Digital is a major American data storage company known for manufacturing hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and related storage solutions for consumers and enterprises.
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E.
HGST
HGST is a data storage company and hard drive manufacturer known for its enterprise-class HDDs and SSDs, now operating as a brand under Western Digital.
- 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: Iomega Target entity description: Iomega was a data storage company best known for its Zip and Jaz drives, later acquired and operated as a subsidiary of EMC Corporation.
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A.
Maxtor Tower
Maxtor Tower is a historic defensive tower that forms part of the medieval fortifications of Nuremberg, Germany.
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B.
Seagate Technology
Seagate Technology is a leading American data storage company best known for manufacturing hard disk drives and other storage solutions for consumer and enterprise markets.
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C.
LaCie
LaCie is a premium computer storage hardware brand known for its stylish, design-focused external drives and professional storage solutions.
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D.
Western Digital
Western Digital is a major American data storage company known for manufacturing hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and related storage solutions for consumers and enterprises.
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E.
HGST
HGST is a data storage company and hard drive manufacturer known for its enterprise-class HDDs and SSDs, now operating as a brand under Western Digital.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
data storage company
ⓘ
technology company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | EMC Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionType | full acquisition ⓘ |
| acquisitionYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Lenovo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitor |
Imation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sony NERFINISHED ⓘ SyQuest Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ Verbatim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developedProduct |
Jaz 1GB drive
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jaz 2GB drive NERFINISHED ⓘ REV drive NERFINISHED ⓘ Zip 100 drive NERFINISHED ⓘ Zip 250 drive NERFINISHED ⓘ Zip 750 drive NERFINISHED ⓘ external USB hard drives ⓘ network-attached storage devices ⓘ |
| focusAfterAcquisition |
external hard drives
ⓘ
network storage ⓘ |
| formerName | Databyte Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Iomega Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1980 ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Roy, Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | computer data storage ⓘ |
| keyBusinessModel | sale of proprietary removable media and drives ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Bernoulli Box
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jaz drive NERFINISHED ⓘ Zip drive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterBrandOf | LenovoEMC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| market |
consumer storage
ⓘ
enterprise storage ⓘ small business storage ⓘ |
| notableEvent | experienced rapid growth in the mid-1990s due to Zip drive popularity ⓘ |
| notableIssue | faced reliability concerns known as the click of death with some Zip drives ⓘ |
| parentCompany | EMC Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productType |
external disk drives
ⓘ
removable disk storage ⓘ |
| regionServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| status | defunct as an independent company ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| subsidiaryOf | EMC Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | LenovoEMC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| technology | proprietary removable disk cartridges ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | IOM 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: Iomega Description of subject: Iomega was a data storage company best known for its Zip and Jaz drives, later acquired and operated as a subsidiary of EMC Corporation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.