Shapeware Corporation
E703954
Shapeware Corporation was the original software company that created the diagramming application later known as Microsoft Visio.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shapeware Corporation canonical | 3 |
| Visio Corporation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7999725 — 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: Shapeware Corporation Context triple: [Microsoft Visio, initialReleaseDeveloper, Shapeware Corporation]
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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.
Rockwell Software
Rockwell Software is a business unit of Rockwell Automation that develops industrial automation and manufacturing execution system (MES) software solutions.
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C.
Eiffel Software
Eiffel Software is a software company best known for developing the Eiffel programming language and tools that emphasize object-oriented design and software reliability.
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D.
Altamira Software
Altamira Software was a pioneering computer graphics and digital imaging company co-founded by computer graphics visionary Alvy Ray Smith.
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E.
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.
- 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: Shapeware Corporation Target entity description: Shapeware Corporation was the original software company that created the diagramming application later known as Microsoft Visio.
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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.
Rockwell Software
Rockwell Software is a business unit of Rockwell Automation that develops industrial automation and manufacturing execution system (MES) software solutions.
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C.
Eiffel Software
Eiffel Software is a software company best known for developing the Eiffel programming language and tools that emphasize object-oriented design and software reliability.
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D.
Altamira Software
Altamira Software was a pioneering computer graphics and digital imaging company co-founded by computer graphics visionary Alvy Ray Smith.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
diagramming software
ⓘ
software company ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developer |
Microsoft
ⓘ
Shapeware Corporation ⓘ |
| hasSuccessorOrganization |
Visio Corporation
ⓘ
linked to:
Shapeware Corporation
|
| industry | software ⓘ |
| knownFor | creating the diagramming application later known as Microsoft Visio ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Visio
ⓘ
linked to:
Microsoft Visio
|
| originalDeveloperOf |
Microsoft Visio
ⓘ
Visio ⓘ
linked to:
Microsoft Visio
|
| originalNameOfProduct |
Visio
ⓘ
linked to:
Microsoft Visio
|
| predecessorOrganization | Shapeware Corporation ⓘ |
| predecessorProduct |
Visio
ⓘ
linked to:
Microsoft Visio
|
| product |
Visio
ⓘ
linked to:
Microsoft Visio
|
| productLaterKnownAs | Microsoft Visio ⓘ |
| productType | diagramming application ⓘ |
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: Shapeware Corporation Description of subject: Shapeware Corporation was the original software company that created the diagramming application later known as Microsoft Visio.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shapeware Corporation
subject linked to:
Shapeware Corporation
subject linked to:
Shapeware Corporation