Broadcom
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Broadcom is a major global semiconductor and infrastructure software company known for its broad portfolio of chips and enterprise solutions used in networking, storage, broadband, and wireless communications.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Broadcom canonical | 8 |
| Broadcom Corporation | 7 |
| Broadcom Inc. | 7 |
| Broadcom Limited | 1 |
| Broadcom SoCs | 1 |
| Broadcom Software Group | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1622446 — 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: Broadcom Context triple: [Silver Lake Partners, notableInvestment, Broadcom]
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A.
Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a leading American semiconductor and telecommunications company best known for designing Snapdragon mobile processors and developing key wireless technologies such as 3G, 4G, and 5G.
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B.
Huawei
Huawei is a major Chinese multinational technology company best known globally for its telecommunications equipment, smartphones, and role in 5G network infrastructure.
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C.
Intersil
Intersil is an American semiconductor company known for designing and manufacturing analog, mixed-signal, and power management integrated circuits for a wide range of electronic applications.
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D.
Agere Systems
Agere Systems was a semiconductor company specializing in communications and networking integrated circuits, formed as a spin-off from Lucent Technologies.
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E.
Ericsson
Ericsson is a Swedish multinational telecommunications company known for providing mobile network infrastructure, services, and software to operators worldwide.
- 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: Broadcom Target entity description: Broadcom is a major global semiconductor and infrastructure software company known for its broad portfolio of chips and enterprise solutions used in networking, storage, broadband, and wireless communications.
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A.
Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a leading American semiconductor and telecommunications company best known for designing Snapdragon mobile processors and developing key wireless technologies such as 3G, 4G, and 5G.
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B.
Huawei
Huawei is a major Chinese multinational technology company best known globally for its telecommunications equipment, smartphones, and role in 5G network infrastructure.
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C.
Intersil
Intersil is an American semiconductor company known for designing and manufacturing analog, mixed-signal, and power management integrated circuits for a wide range of electronic applications.
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D.
Agere Systems
Agere Systems was a semiconductor company specializing in communications and networking integrated circuits, formed as a spin-off from Lucent Technologies.
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E.
Ericsson
Ericsson is a Swedish multinational telecommunications company known for providing mobile network infrastructure, services, and software to operators worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
infrastructure software company
ⓘ
semiconductor company ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| acquired |
Broadcom Corporation
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linked to:
Broadcom
CA Technologies ⓘ Symantec Enterprise Security business ⓘ
linked to:
Symantec
VMware ⓘ |
| CEO | Hock Tan ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formerlyKnownAs | Avago Technologies ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Henry Nicholas III
ⓘ
Henry Samueli ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1991 ⓘ |
| hasGlobalOperationsIn |
Asia-Pacific
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Jose, California
ⓘ
linked to:
San Jose
|
| industry |
enterprise software
ⓘ
networking equipment ⓘ semiconductors ⓘ |
| keyBusinessSegment |
infrastructure software
ⓘ
semiconductor solutions ⓘ |
| knownFor |
broad portfolio of chips for networking, storage, broadband, and wireless communications
ⓘ
enterprise infrastructure and mainframe software solutions ⓘ |
| notableCustomerSegments |
hyperscale cloud providers
ⓘ
network equipment manufacturers ⓘ storage system vendors ⓘ telecom operators ⓘ |
| originatedAs |
Broadcom Corporation
ⓘ
linked to:
Broadcom
|
| productsInclude |
Bluetooth chipsets
ⓘ
Ethernet controllers ⓘ Ethernet switches ⓘ RAID controllers ⓘ Wi‑Fi chipsets ⓘ application performance monitoring software ⓘ fiber channel host bus adapters ⓘ mainframe software ⓘ set‑top box SoCs ⓘ |
| servesIndustry |
broadband access
ⓘ
cloud computing ⓘ data centers ⓘ enterprise IT ⓘ telecommunications ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
broadband chips
ⓘ
enterprise infrastructure software ⓘ networking chips ⓘ storage controllers ⓘ wireless communication chips ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | AVGO ⓘ |
| tradedOn | NASDAQ ⓘ |
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: Broadcom Description of subject: Broadcom is a major global semiconductor and infrastructure software company known for its broad portfolio of chips and enterprise solutions used in networking, storage, broadband, and wireless communications.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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