EDS
E259817
businessperson
information technology company
information technology services company
outsourcing company
politician
public company
EDS (Electronic Data Systems) was a major American information technology services company known for providing outsourcing, consulting, and managed services to large corporate and government clients worldwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| EDS canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2365546 — 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: EDS Context triple: [Loudcloud, soldHostingBusinessTo, EDS]
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A.
EGDY
EGDY is the ICAO airport code for RNAS Yeovilton, a major Royal Navy air station in Somerset, England.
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B.
EDV
EDV is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Endeavor Air in international aviation operations.
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C.
EDDH
EDDH is the ICAO airport code for Hamburg Airport, a major international airport in northern Germany.
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D.
ESD
ESD is the primary economic development agency of New York State, responsible for promoting business growth, job creation, and investment.
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E.
ESCD
ESCD is the abbreviation for NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges Division, which focuses on addressing new and evolving threats such as cyber defense, terrorism, and energy security.
- 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: EDS Target entity description: EDS (Electronic Data Systems) was a major American information technology services company known for providing outsourcing, consulting, and managed services to large corporate and government clients worldwide.
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A.
EGDY
EGDY is the ICAO airport code for RNAS Yeovilton, a major Royal Navy air station in Somerset, England.
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B.
EDV
EDV is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Endeavor Air in international aviation operations.
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C.
EDDH
EDDH is the ICAO airport code for Hamburg Airport, a major international airport in northern Germany.
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D.
ESD
ESD is the primary economic development agency of New York State, responsible for promoting business growth, job creation, and investment.
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E.
ESCD
ESCD is the abbreviation for NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges Division, which focuses on addressing new and evolving threats such as cyber defense, terrorism, and energy security.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
information technology company ⓘ information technology services company ⓘ outsourcing company ⓘ politician ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| abbreviation | EDS ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Hewlett-Packard ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dateOfAcquisition | 2008 ⓘ |
| fate | acquired and integrated into Hewlett-Packard ⓘ |
| formerStatus | Fortune 500 company ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Ross Perot ⓘ |
| foundedInCity | Dallas ⓘ |
| foundedInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| foundedInState | Texas ⓘ |
| fullName | Electronic Data Systems ⓘ |
| hasMainBusinessModel |
managed services contracts
ⓘ
outsourcing contracts ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Plano, Texas
ⓘ
Texas ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| inception | 1962 ⓘ |
| industry |
consulting
ⓘ
information technology services ⓘ managed services ⓘ outsourcing ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| notableActivity |
IT outsourcing for government agencies
ⓘ
IT outsourcing for large corporations ⓘ |
| notableFor |
long-term contracts with financial institutions
ⓘ
long-term contracts with government agencies ⓘ pioneering large-scale IT outsourcing contracts ⓘ |
| notableFounderRole |
Ross Perot was a former IBM salesman
ⓘ
linked to:
Ross Perot
|
| notableService |
application management
ⓘ
business process outsourcing ⓘ infrastructure services ⓘ systems integration ⓘ |
| operatedInSector |
private sector IT services
ⓘ
public sector IT services ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Hewlett-Packard ⓘ |
| servedClientType |
government clients
ⓘ
large corporate clients ⓘ |
| shortName | EDS ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| successor | HP Enterprise Services ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | EDS ⓘ |
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: EDS Description of subject: EDS (Electronic Data Systems) was a major American information technology services company known for providing outsourcing, consulting, and managed services to large corporate and government clients worldwide.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.