Revit Technology Corporation
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Revit Technology Corporation was the software company that created the original Revit building information modeling (BIM) application before its acquisition by Autodesk.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Revit Technology Corporation canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8823243 — 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: Revit Technology Corporation Context triple: [Revit, originalDeveloper, Revit Technology Corporation]
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A.
Shapeware Corporation
Shapeware Corporation was the original software company that created the diagramming application later known as Microsoft Visio.
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B.
VisiCorp
VisiCorp was an early personal computer software company best known for marketing VisiCalc, the first widely used spreadsheet program that helped popularize business use of microcomputers.
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C.
Perspecta
Perspecta is a long-running, peer-reviewed architectural journal known for critical essays, theoretical explorations, and design discourse associated with the Yale School of Architecture.
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D.
Dassault Systèmes
Dassault Systèmes is a French multinational software company best known for its 3D design, engineering, and product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions such as CATIA and SOLIDWORKS.
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E.
Rockwell Group
Rockwell Group is a renowned New York–based architecture and design firm known for its innovative, experience-driven projects across hospitality, entertainment, and cultural spaces worldwide.
- 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: Revit Technology Corporation Target entity description: Revit Technology Corporation was the software company that created the original Revit building information modeling (BIM) application before its acquisition by Autodesk.
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A.
Shapeware Corporation
Shapeware Corporation was the original software company that created the diagramming application later known as Microsoft Visio.
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B.
VisiCorp
VisiCorp was an early personal computer software company best known for marketing VisiCalc, the first widely used spreadsheet program that helped popularize business use of microcomputers.
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C.
Perspecta
Perspecta is a long-running, peer-reviewed architectural journal known for critical essays, theoretical explorations, and design discourse associated with the Yale School of Architecture.
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D.
Dassault Systèmes
Dassault Systèmes is a French multinational software company best known for its 3D design, engineering, and product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions such as CATIA and SOLIDWORKS.
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E.
Rockwell Group
Rockwell Group is a renowned New York–based architecture and design firm known for its innovative, experience-driven projects across hospitality, entertainment, and cultural spaces worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | software company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Autodesk ⓘ |
| acquisitionTargetOf | Autodesk ⓘ |
| areaServed | global ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developed |
Revit building information modeling application
ⓘ
linked to:
Revit
|
| developedForPlatform |
Microsoft Windows
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
|
| field |
building information modeling
ⓘ
computer-aided design ⓘ |
| focusArea | architecture, engineering and construction software ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | RTC ⓘ |
| industry |
building information modeling
ⓘ
computer-aided design ⓘ software ⓘ |
| knownFor | developing the original Revit BIM application ⓘ |
| mainProduct | Revit ⓘ |
| notableFor | pioneering parametric BIM for building design ⓘ |
| notableWork | Revit ⓘ |
| operatesInSector | AEC software ⓘ |
| primaryUserBase |
architects
ⓘ
construction professionals ⓘ engineers ⓘ |
| product | Revit ⓘ |
| reasonForStatus | acquired by Autodesk ⓘ |
| softwareTypeDeveloped |
CAD software
ⓘ
architectural design software ⓘ building information modeling software ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successor |
Autodesk Revit
ⓘ
linked to:
Revit
|
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: Revit Technology Corporation Description of subject: Revit Technology Corporation was the software company that created the original Revit building information modeling (BIM) application before its acquisition by Autodesk.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.