Qualcomm
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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.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Qualcomm canonical | 46 |
| Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. | 3 |
| QCOM | 1 |
| Qualcomm AI Engine | 1 |
| Qualcomm CDMA Technologies | 1 |
| Qualcomm Incorporated | 1 |
| Qualcomm Snapdragon | 1 |
| Snapdragon mobile processor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T232410 — 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: Qualcomm Context triple: [Intel Corporation, competesWith, Qualcomm]
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A.
Motorola Mobility
Motorola Mobility is a consumer electronics company best known for designing and manufacturing Android smartphones and smartwatches, including devices running Google's Wear OS platform.
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B.
Nokia
Nokia is a Finnish multinational telecommunications and consumer electronics company best known for its historic leadership in mobile phones and its current focus on network infrastructure and 5G technologies.
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C.
Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies was a major American telecommunications equipment company, spun off from AT&T, known for its Bell Labs research arm and contributions to networking and communications technology.
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D.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments is a major American technology company best known for designing and manufacturing semiconductors and calculators used worldwide.
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E.
Fairchild Semiconductor
Fairchild Semiconductor was a pioneering American semiconductor company that played a central role in the development of Silicon Valley and the modern integrated circuit industry.
- 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: Qualcomm Target entity description: 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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A.
Motorola Mobility
Motorola Mobility is a consumer electronics company best known for designing and manufacturing Android smartphones and smartwatches, including devices running Google's Wear OS platform.
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B.
Nokia
Nokia is a Finnish multinational telecommunications and consumer electronics company best known for its historic leadership in mobile phones and its current focus on network infrastructure and 5G technologies.
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C.
Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies was a major American telecommunications equipment company, spun off from AT&T, known for its Bell Labs research arm and contributions to networking and communications technology.
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D.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments is a major American technology company best known for designing and manufacturing semiconductors and calculators used worldwide.
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E.
Fairchild Semiconductor
Fairchild Semiconductor was a pioneering American semiconductor company that played a central role in the development of Silicon Valley and the modern integrated circuit industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Public company
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Semiconductor company ⓘ Technology company ⓘ Telecommunications company ⓘ |
| areaServed | Worldwide ⓘ |
| coreBusiness |
Design of mobile processors
ⓘ
Design of wireless chipsets ⓘ Licensing of wireless communication patents ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| foundedBy |
Adelia Coffman
ⓘ
Andrew Cohen ⓘ Andrew Viterbi ⓘ Franklin Antonio ⓘ Harvey White ⓘ Irwin M. Jacobs ⓘ Klein Gilhousen ⓘ |
| foundingLocation |
San Diego, California
ⓘ
linked to:
San Diego, California, United States
|
| hasDivision |
Qualcomm CDMA Technologies
ⓘ
linked to:
Qualcomm
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. ⓘ
linked to:
Qualcomm
|
| hasPatentPortfolioIn |
3G wireless technologies
ⓘ
4G wireless technologies ⓘ 5G wireless technologies ⓘ CDMA-based technologies ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Diego, California
ⓘ
linked to:
San Diego, California, United States
|
| inception | 1985 ⓘ |
| industry |
Consumer electronics
ⓘ
Semiconductors ⓘ Wireless telecommunications ⓘ |
| keyTechnology |
3G
ⓘ
4G LTE ⓘ
linked to:
LTE
5G NR ⓘ CDMA ⓘ
linked to:
IMT-2000 family
OFDM-based cellular technologies ⓘ WCDMA ⓘ
linked to:
UMTS
|
| legalForm | Corporation ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
Adreno GPU
ⓘ
Hexagon DSP ⓘ Qualcomm AI Engine ⓘ
linked to:
Qualcomm
Qualcomm Quick Charge ⓘ Snapdragon mobile processor ⓘ
linked to:
Qualcomm
Snapdragon modem ⓘ Snapdragon system-on-chip ⓘ |
| revenueSource |
Chip sales
ⓘ
Technology licensing fees ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
Automotive chipsets
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Cellular modems ⓘ Internet of Things chipsets ⓘ Mobile SoCs ⓘ RF front-end solutions ⓘ Wireless standards development ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol |
QCOM
ⓘ
linked to:
Qualcomm
|
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: Qualcomm Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (55)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Qualcomm
linked to: Qualcomm
linked to: Qualcomm
linked to: Qualcomm
linked to: Qualcomm
linked to: Qualcomm
subject linked to:
Adreno GPU
subject linked to:
Adreno GPU
subject linked to:
Adreno GPU
linked to: Qualcomm
linked to: Qualcomm
subject linked to:
Andrew Cohen