Glidesoft, Inc.
E290863
Glidesoft, Inc. was the original name of ServiceNow, the cloud-based IT service management company founded by Fred Luddy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glidesoft, Inc. canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2703800 — 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: Glidesoft, Inc. Context triple: [ServiceNow, formerName, Glidesoft, Inc.]
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A.
Inprise Corporation
Inprise Corporation was the temporary name used by software company Borland during a late-1990s rebranding focused on enterprise solutions.
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B.
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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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.
Visigenic Software
Visigenic Software was a software company known for its early work in distributed object computing and CORBA-based middleware solutions before being acquired by Borland.
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E.
Altamira Software
Altamira Software was a pioneering computer graphics and digital imaging company co-founded by computer graphics visionary Alvy Ray Smith.
- 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: Glidesoft, Inc. Target entity description: Glidesoft, Inc. was the original name of ServiceNow, the cloud-based IT service management company founded by Fred Luddy.
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A.
Inprise Corporation
Inprise Corporation was the temporary name used by software company Borland during a late-1990s rebranding focused on enterprise solutions.
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B.
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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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.
Visigenic Software
Visigenic Software was a software company known for its early work in distributed object computing and CORBA-based middleware solutions before being acquired by Borland.
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E.
Altamira Software
Altamira Software was a pioneering computer graphics and digital imaging company co-founded by computer graphics visionary Alvy Ray Smith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
information technology company
ⓘ
software company ⓘ |
| businessModel | software as a service ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| evolvedInto | ServiceNow ⓘ |
| focus |
IT service management automation
ⓘ
enterprise IT operations ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | ServiceNow ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Fred Luddy ⓘ |
| industry |
cloud computing
ⓘ
information technology service management ⓘ |
| notableFounder | Fred Luddy ⓘ |
| product |
IT service management software
ⓘ
cloud-based IT service management platform ⓘ |
| successor | ServiceNow ⓘ |
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: Glidesoft, Inc. Description of subject: Glidesoft, Inc. was the original name of ServiceNow, the cloud-based IT service management company founded by Fred Luddy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
NOW