MapInfo Corporation
E902853
MapInfo Corporation was a pioneering geographic information systems (GIS) software company best known for creating mapping and location analytics tools for business and government use.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MapInfo Corporation canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11060146 — 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: MapInfo Corporation Context triple: [MapInfo Professional, developer, MapInfo Corporation]
-
A.
MapInfo Professional
MapInfo Professional is a desktop geographic information system (GIS) software application used for mapping, spatial analysis, and visualization of geographic data.
-
B.
GEOVIA
GEOVIA is a Dassault Systèmes software brand focused on modeling and simulating the earth’s resources for mining, geology, and urban planning.
-
C.
American Information Technologies Corporation
American Information Technologies Corporation, commonly known as Ameritech, was a regional Bell operating company that provided telecommunications services in the Midwestern United States before being acquired by SBC Communications (now AT&T).
-
D.
Pando Company
Pando Company is a film production company known for producing the movie "The Happy Ending."
-
E.
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.
- 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: MapInfo Corporation Target entity description: MapInfo Corporation was a pioneering geographic information systems (GIS) software company best known for creating mapping and location analytics tools for business and government use.
-
A.
MapInfo Professional
MapInfo Professional is a desktop geographic information system (GIS) software application used for mapping, spatial analysis, and visualization of geographic data.
-
B.
GEOVIA
GEOVIA is a Dassault Systèmes software brand focused on modeling and simulating the earth’s resources for mining, geology, and urban planning.
-
C.
American Information Technologies Corporation
American Information Technologies Corporation, commonly known as Ameritech, was a regional Bell operating company that provided telecommunications services in the Midwestern United States before being acquired by SBC Communications (now AT&T).
-
D.
Pando Company
Pando Company is a film production company known for producing the movie "The Happy Ending."
-
E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographic information systems company
ⓘ
software company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Pitney Bowes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionAmount | 408000000 USD ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2007 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formerStockExchange | NASDAQ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedAt | Troy, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
John Haller
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Laszlo Bardos NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Sean O’Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Troy, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1986 ⓘ |
| industry |
geographic information systems
ⓘ
location intelligence ⓘ mapping software ⓘ |
| locationBasedOn | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ecosystem GENERATED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
location-based decision support
ⓘ
pioneering desktop GIS for business users ⓘ |
| notableWork | MapInfo Professional NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Windows
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
|
| product |
MapInfo AnySite
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
MapInfo Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ MapInfo DriveTime NERFINISHED ⓘ MapInfo Envinsa NERFINISHED ⓘ MapInfo MapX NERFINISHED ⓘ MapInfo MapXtreme NERFINISHED ⓘ MapInfo ProViewer NERFINISHED ⓘ MapInfo Professional NERFINISHED ⓘ MapInfo Routing J Server NERFINISHED ⓘ MapInfo SpatialWare NERFINISHED ⓘ MapInfo Stratus NERFINISHED ⓘ MapInfo TargetPro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves |
business users
ⓘ
financial services industry ⓘ government agencies ⓘ public sector ⓘ retail industry ⓘ telecommunications industry ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
desktop GIS software
ⓘ
geocoding ⓘ location analytics ⓘ mapping and visualization ⓘ routing and drive-time analysis ⓘ spatial data analysis ⓘ |
| successor |
Pitney Bowes Business Insight
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Precisely NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | MAPS 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: MapInfo Corporation Description of subject: MapInfo Corporation was a pioneering geographic information systems (GIS) software company best known for creating mapping and location analytics tools for business and government use.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.