CDC 1604
E1033547
The CDC 1604 was an early 1960s transistorized mainframe computer designed by Seymour Cray that helped establish Control Data Corporation as a leader in high-performance computing.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13316964 — 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: CDC 1604 Context triple: [Control Data Corporation, notableProduct, CDC 1604]
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A.
C-12V Huron
The C-12V Huron is a military transport and liaison aircraft, derived from the Beechcraft King Air series, used for personnel and light cargo transport, medical evacuation, and utility missions.
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B.
SS-7 Saddler
The SS-7 Saddler is a Soviet-era intercontinental ballistic missile developed during the Cold War as part of the USSR's strategic nuclear arsenal.
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C.
CC-150 Polaris
The CC-150 Polaris is a Canadian military Airbus A310 variant used primarily for strategic transport, air-to-air refueling, and VIP transport by the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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D.
Columbia KC 33482
Columbia KC 33482 is the original Columbia Records vinyl LP catalog number for Willie Nelson’s landmark 1975 album "Red Headed Stranger."
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E.
Air Force A2/6
Air Force A2/6 is the United States Air Force headquarters directorate responsible for overseeing and integrating intelligence, cyber, and information-related capabilities across the service.
- 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: CDC 1604 Target entity description: The CDC 1604 was an early 1960s transistorized mainframe computer designed by Seymour Cray that helped establish Control Data Corporation as a leader in high-performance computing.
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A.
C-12V Huron
The C-12V Huron is a military transport and liaison aircraft, derived from the Beechcraft King Air series, used for personnel and light cargo transport, medical evacuation, and utility missions.
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B.
SS-7 Saddler
The SS-7 Saddler is a Soviet-era intercontinental ballistic missile developed during the Cold War as part of the USSR's strategic nuclear arsenal.
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C.
CC-150 Polaris
The CC-150 Polaris is a Canadian military Airbus A310 variant used primarily for strategic transport, air-to-air refueling, and VIP transport by the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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D.
Columbia KC 33482
Columbia KC 33482 is the original Columbia Records vinyl LP catalog number for Willie Nelson’s landmark 1975 album "Red Headed Stranger."
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E.
Air Force A2/6
Air Force A2/6 is the United States Air Force headquarters directorate responsible for overseeing and integrating intelligence, cyber, and information-related capabilities across the service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mainframe computer
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transistorized computer ⓘ |
| addressSpace | 32K words ⓘ |
| architecture | binary, two’s-complement ⓘ |
| clockSpeed | about 100 kHz ⓘ |
| commercialAvailability | early 1960s ⓘ |
| companyRole | first large-scale computer from Control Data Corporation ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| designer | Seymour Cray ⓘ |
| era | second-generation computer ⓘ |
| floatingPointSupport | hardware floating-point ⓘ |
| formFactor | multiple cabinet system ⓘ |
| influenced | CDC 6600 ⓘ |
| inputOutput |
line printers
ⓘ
magnetic tape drives ⓘ paper tape readers ⓘ punched card equipment ⓘ |
| instructionSet | single-address architecture ⓘ |
| introduced | 1959 ⓘ |
| logicFamily | resistor-transistor logic ⓘ |
| mainMemoryCapacity |
16,384 words
ⓘ
32,768 words ⓘ |
| mainMemoryType | magnetic core memory ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Control Data Corporation ⓘ |
| market |
commercial
ⓘ
government ⓘ research institutions ⓘ |
| notableCustomer |
European research laboratories
ⓘ
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory ⓘ
linked to:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
United States Navy ⓘ |
| numberOfAddressBits | 15 ⓘ |
| numericRepresentation | ones-complement in early designs ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
SCOPE
ⓘ
early batch-processing monitors ⓘ |
| powerRequirement | air-cooled, room-sized system ⓘ |
| predecessor |
CDC 160
ⓘ
linked to:
CDC 1604
|
| primaryUse |
engineering applications
ⓘ
military applications ⓘ scientific computing ⓘ |
| programmingLanguages |
FORTRAN
ⓘ
linked to:
Fortran
assembly language ⓘ |
| significance |
helped establish Control Data Corporation in high-performance computing
ⓘ
one of the first commercially successful transistorized scientific computers ⓘ |
| status | obsolete ⓘ |
| successor |
CDC 3600
ⓘ
CDC 3800 ⓘ |
| technology | discrete transistors ⓘ |
| wordLength | 48 bits ⓘ |
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: CDC 1604 Description of subject: The CDC 1604 was an early 1960s transistorized mainframe computer designed by Seymour Cray that helped establish Control Data Corporation as a leader in high-performance computing.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: CDC 1604