Examples

The following fictional news story portrays the levels of detail that systems can extract:

Fletcher Maddox, former Dean of the UCSD Business School, announced the formation of La Jolla Genomatics together with his two sons. La Jolla Genomatics will release its product Geninfo in June 1999. Geninfo is a turnkey system to assist biotechnology researchers in keeping up with the voluminous literature in all aspects of their field.

Dr. Maddox will be the firm's CEO. His son, Oliver, is the Chief Scientist and holds patents on many of the algorithms used in Geninfo. Oliver's brother, Ambrose, follows more in his father's footsteps and will be the CFO of L.J.G. headquartered in the Maddox family's hometown of La Jolla, CA.

Entities:

Persons: Organizations: Locations: Artifacts: Dates:
Fletcher Maddox UCSD Business School La Jolla Geninfo June 1999
Dr. Maddox La Jolla Genomatics CA Geninfo  
Oliver La Jolla Genomatics      
Oliver L.J.G.      
Ambrose        
Maddox        

Attributes:

NAME: Fletcher Maddox
Maddox
DESCRIPTOR: former Dean of the UCSD Business School
his father
the firm's CEO
CATEGORY: PERSON
NAME: Oliver
DESCRIPTOR: His son
Chief Scientist
CATEGORY: PERSON
NAME: Ambrose
DESCRIPTOR: Oliver's brother
the CFO of L.J.G.
CATEGORY: PERSON
NAME: UCSD Business School
DESCRIPTOR:  
CATEGORY: ORGANIZATION
NAME: La Jolla Genomatics
L.J.G.
DESCRIPTOR:  
CATEGORY: ORGANIZATION
NAME: Geninfo
DESCRIPTOR: its product
CATEGORY: ARTIFACT
NAME: La Jolla
DESCRIPTOR: the Maddox family's hometown
CATEGORY: LOCATION
NAME: CA
DESCRIPTOR:  
CATEGORY: LOCATION

Facts:

PERSON Employee_of ORGANIZATION
Fletcher Maddox
Fletcher Maddox
Oliver
Ambrose
Employee_of
Employee_of
Employee_of
Employee_of
UCSD Business School
La Jolla Genomatics
La Jolla Genomatics
La Jolla Genomatics
ARTIFACT Product_of ORGANIZATION
Geninfo Product_of La Jolla Genomatics
LOCATION Location_of ORGANIZATION
La Jolla Location_of La Jolla Genomatics
CA Location_of La Jolla Genomatics

Events:

COMPANY-FORMATION_EVENT:

COMPANY: La Jolla Genomatics
PRINCIPALS: Fletcher Maddox
Oliver
Ambrose
DATE:  
CAPITAL:  

RELEASE-EVENT:

COMPANY: La Jolla Genomatics
PRODUCT: Geninfo
DATE: June 1999
COST:  


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Last updated: Tuesday, 08-Mar-2005 15:15:10 EST
Date created: Friday, 12-Jan-01