CDC STAR-100
E1033550
The CDC STAR-100 was a pioneering vector supercomputer from the early 1970s designed for high-speed scientific and engineering computations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CDC STAR-100 canonical | 1 |
| STAR-100 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13316968 — 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 STAR-100 Context triple: [Control Data Corporation, notableProduct, CDC STAR-100]
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A.
TriStar C2
The TriStar C2 is a Royal Air Force variant of the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar airliner adapted for military transport and support roles.
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B.
StaR technology
StaR technology is a proprietary platform developed by Heptares Therapeutics for stabilizing G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) to enable their detailed structural analysis and use in structure-based drug discovery.
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C.
TriStar K1
The TriStar K1 is a Royal Air Force variant of the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar airliner adapted primarily for air-to-air refueling and transport duties.
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D.
Turbostar
Turbostar is a family of modern British diesel multiple-unit trains widely used for regional and commuter services across the UK rail network.
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E.
North Star Computers
North Star Computers was an early microcomputer company best known for producing S-100 bus–based systems and floppy disk subsystems during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
- 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 STAR-100 Target entity description: The CDC STAR-100 was a pioneering vector supercomputer from the early 1970s designed for high-speed scientific and engineering computations.
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A.
TriStar C2
The TriStar C2 is a Royal Air Force variant of the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar airliner adapted for military transport and support roles.
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B.
StaR technology
StaR technology is a proprietary platform developed by Heptares Therapeutics for stabilizing G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) to enable their detailed structural analysis and use in structure-based drug discovery.
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C.
TriStar K1
The TriStar K1 is a Royal Air Force variant of the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar airliner adapted primarily for air-to-air refueling and transport duties.
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D.
Turbostar
Turbostar is a family of modern British diesel multiple-unit trains widely used for regional and commuter services across the UK rail network.
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E.
North Star Computers
North Star Computers was an early microcomputer company best known for producing S-100 bus–based systems and floppy disk subsystems during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
supercomputer
ⓘ
vector supercomputer ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
STAR-100
ⓘ
linked to:
CDC STAR-100
|
| applicationDomain |
engineering simulation
ⓘ
numerical analysis ⓘ scientific computing ⓘ |
| architectureType |
pipeline architecture
ⓘ
vector processing ⓘ |
| company | Control Data Corporation ⓘ |
| competition |
Cray-1
ⓘ
ILLIAC IV ⓘ |
| computingParadigm | vector processing ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| designedBy | CDC STAR project team ⓘ |
| designedFor |
engineering computations
ⓘ
high-speed scientific computations ⓘ |
| designer | Control Data Corporation ⓘ |
| era | third generation computers ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
one of the earliest commercial vector supercomputers
ⓘ
pioneered vector processing in commercial systems ⓘ |
| influenced |
CDC Cyber 205
ⓘ
linked to:
CDC Cyber series
Cray-1 ⓘ |
| introduced |
1974
ⓘ
early 1970s ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Control Data Corporation ⓘ |
| market | high-performance computing ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | STAR stands for STrings of Arithmetic Registers ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
hardware vector instructions
ⓘ
high memory bandwidth for its time ⓘ long vector registers ⓘ |
| numericRepresentation | floating-point ⓘ |
| operatingEnvironment | large data centers ⓘ |
| periodOfUse | 1970s ⓘ |
| primaryProgrammingLanguage |
FORTRAN
ⓘ
linked to:
Fortran
|
| status | discontinued ⓘ |
| successor |
CDC Cyber 205
ⓘ
linked to:
CDC Cyber series
|
| targetCustomers |
government laboratories
ⓘ
large industrial engineering organizations ⓘ research institutions ⓘ |
| technologyNode | integrated circuit technology ⓘ |
| usedFor |
aerodynamic analysis
ⓘ
fluid dynamics simulations ⓘ physics simulations ⓘ weather modeling ⓘ |
| vendor | Control Data Corporation ⓘ |
| wordLength | 64-bit ⓘ |
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 STAR-100 Description of subject: The CDC STAR-100 was a pioneering vector supercomputer from the early 1970s designed for high-speed scientific and engineering computations.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: CDC STAR-100