Inprise Corporation
E209546
Inprise Corporation was the temporary name used by software company Borland during a late-1990s rebranding focused on enterprise solutions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Inprise Corporation canonical | 3 |
| Inprise | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1884991 — 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: Inprise Corporation Context triple: [Borland, formerName, Inprise Corporation]
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A.
Syntrillium Software
Syntrillium Software was a software company best known for creating the audio editing program Cool Edit, which later evolved into Adobe Audition after Adobe acquired the firm.
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B.
Relational Software Inc.
Relational Software Inc. was the early name of the company that eventually became Oracle Corporation, a major multinational database and enterprise software company.
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C.
Wyatt Software
Wyatt Software was a software company known for employing pioneering programmer Ward Cunningham early in his career.
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D.
Jasper Technologies
Jasper Technologies is a cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider known for enabling companies to manage and monetize connected devices and services.
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E.
Novell
Novell was a prominent software company best known for its NetWare network operating system and contributions to enterprise networking and Linux technologies.
- 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: Inprise Corporation Target entity description: Inprise Corporation was the temporary name used by software company Borland during a late-1990s rebranding focused on enterprise solutions.
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A.
Syntrillium Software
Syntrillium Software was a software company best known for creating the audio editing program Cool Edit, which later evolved into Adobe Audition after Adobe acquired the firm.
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B.
Relational Software Inc.
Relational Software Inc. was the early name of the company that eventually became Oracle Corporation, a major multinational database and enterprise software company.
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C.
Wyatt Software
Wyatt Software was a software company known for employing pioneering programmer Ward Cunningham early in his career.
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D.
Jasper Technologies
Jasper Technologies is a cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider known for enabling companies to manage and monetize connected devices and services.
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E.
Novell
Novell was a prominent software company best known for its NetWare network operating system and contributions to enterprise networking and Linux technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public company
ⓘ
software company ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Inprise
ⓘ
linked to:
Inprise Corporation
|
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| businessModel | proprietary software licensing ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focus | enterprise software solutions ⓘ |
| formerNameOf |
Borland Software Corporation
ⓘ
linked to:
Borland
|
| headquartersLocation | Scotts Valley, California ⓘ |
| industry | software industry ⓘ |
| keyPerson |
Dale L. Fuller
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Del Yocam ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
name change from Borland to Inprise in the late 1990s
ⓘ
name change from Inprise back to Borland in early 2000s ⓘ |
| operatedInPeriod | late 1990s ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Borland International
ⓘ
linked to:
Borland
Borland Software Corporation ⓘ
linked to:
Borland
|
| predecessor |
Borland International
ⓘ
linked to:
Borland
|
| product |
C++Builder
ⓘ
Delphi ⓘ
linked to:
Delphi (programming language)
InterBase ⓘ JBuilder ⓘ VisiBroker ⓘ
linked to:
Visibroker
application development tools ⓘ middleware ⓘ |
| rebrandingOf |
Borland International
ⓘ
linked to:
Borland
|
| rebrandingReason | focus on enterprise solutions ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| successor |
Borland Software Corporation
ⓘ
linked to:
Borland
|
| tickerSymbol | BORL ⓘ |
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: Inprise Corporation Description of subject: Inprise Corporation was the temporary name used by software company Borland during a late-1990s rebranding focused on enterprise solutions.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Inprise Corporation
linked to: Inprise Corporation