Gateway
E110681
Gateway was a prominent American personal computer manufacturer known for its cow-spotted boxes and direct-to-consumer PC sales in the 1990s and early 2000s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gateway canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T941653 — 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: Gateway Context triple: [Compaq, competitiveWith, Gateway]
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A.
New Gate
New Gate is one of the historic entrances in the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, providing access to the Christian Quarter and reflecting late Ottoman-era modifications to the ancient fortifications.
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B.
Gatekeeper
Gatekeeper is a macOS security feature that helps protect users by allowing only trusted software to run on the system.
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C.
Gates
Gates is a common English surname most prominently associated with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his family.
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D.
Chain Gate
Chain Gate is one of the historic entrances to Jerusalem’s Noble Sanctuary (Al-Aqsa compound), located along the western wall of the sacred precinct.
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E.
Echo Bridge
Echo Bridge is a historic 19th-century stone arch aqueduct and pedestrian bridge spanning the Charles River between Newton and Needham, Massachusetts.
- 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: Gateway Target entity description: Gateway was a prominent American personal computer manufacturer known for its cow-spotted boxes and direct-to-consumer PC sales in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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A.
New Gate
New Gate is one of the historic entrances in the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, providing access to the Christian Quarter and reflecting late Ottoman-era modifications to the ancient fortifications.
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B.
Gatekeeper
Gatekeeper is a macOS security feature that helps protect users by allowing only trusted software to run on the system.
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C.
Gates
Gates is a common English surname most prominently associated with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his family.
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D.
Chain Gate
Chain Gate is one of the historic entrances to Jerusalem’s Noble Sanctuary (Al-Aqsa compound), located along the western wall of the sacred precinct.
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E.
Echo Bridge
Echo Bridge is a historic 19th-century stone arch aqueduct and pedestrian bridge spanning the Charles River between Newton and Needham, Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer hardware company
ⓘ
personal computer manufacturer ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Acer Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Acer
|
| acquisitionDate | 2007 ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | 710000000 USD ⓘ |
| brandStatus | continues as a PC brand under Acer ⓘ |
| businessModel |
mail-order PC sales
ⓘ
online direct sales ⓘ retail stores ⓘ |
| competitor |
Compaq
ⓘ
Dell Inc. ⓘ
linked to:
Dell
Hewlett-Packard ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fate | became a subsidiary of Acer Inc. ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Mike Hammond
ⓘ
Norm Waitt Jr. ⓘ Ted Waitt ⓘ |
| foundedIn | Sioux City, Iowa ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Irvine, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Irvine
North Sioux City, South Dakota ⓘ |
| inception | 1985 ⓘ |
| industry |
computer hardware
ⓘ
consumer electronics ⓘ personal computers ⓘ |
| knownFor |
build-to-order personal computers
ⓘ
cow-spotted shipping boxes ⓘ direct-to-consumer PC sales model ⓘ |
| marketingMascot | Holstein cow imagery ⓘ |
| movedHeadquartersTo |
Irvine, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Irvine
North Sioux City, South Dakota ⓘ |
| notableDesign | distinctive cow-patterned packaging ⓘ |
| notableFeature | custom-configured PCs ordered by phone or online ⓘ |
| operated | Gateway Country Stores ⓘ |
| originalName | Gateway 2000 ⓘ |
| peakEra |
1990s
ⓘ
early 2000s ⓘ |
| product |
computer accessories
ⓘ
computer monitors ⓘ desktop computers ⓘ laptop computers ⓘ servers ⓘ |
| rebrandedFrom | Gateway 2000 ⓘ |
| rebrandedIn | 1998 ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Asia-Pacific
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| slogan | You’ve got a friend in the business ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | GTW ⓘ |
| wentPublicOn | 1993 ⓘ |
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: Gateway Description of subject: Gateway was a prominent American personal computer manufacturer known for its cow-spotted boxes and direct-to-consumer PC sales in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.