BINAC
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BINAC was one of the earliest stored-program electronic digital computers, built in the late 1940s by J. Presper Eckert and his colleagues as a pioneering step in modern computing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BINAC canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2480868 — 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: BINAC Context triple: [J. Presper Eckert, coInventorOf, BINAC]
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A.
B Reactor
B Reactor is the world’s first full-scale plutonium production reactor, built during the Manhattan Project at the Hanford Site in Washington State.
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B.
NuMachine
NuMachine was an early 1980s experimental workstation computer project at MIT that pioneered the NuBus expansion bus architecture.
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C.
Busicom
Busicom was a Japanese calculator and electronics company best known for commissioning the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor.
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D.
Apollo Computer
Apollo Computer was an American computer company best known for pioneering high-performance Domain workstation systems in the 1980s.
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E.
SINTRAN
SINTRAN is a real-time, multitasking operating system developed by Norsk Data for its NORD series of minicomputers.
- 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: BINAC Target entity description: BINAC was one of the earliest stored-program electronic digital computers, built in the late 1940s by J. Presper Eckert and his colleagues as a pioneering step in modern computing.
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A.
B Reactor
B Reactor is the world’s first full-scale plutonium production reactor, built during the Manhattan Project at the Hanford Site in Washington State.
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B.
NuMachine
NuMachine was an early 1980s experimental workstation computer project at MIT that pioneered the NuBus expansion bus architecture.
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C.
Busicom
Busicom was a Japanese calculator and electronics company best known for commissioning the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor.
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D.
Apollo Computer
Apollo Computer was an American computer company best known for pioneering high-performance Domain workstation systems in the 1980s.
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E.
SINTRAN
SINTRAN is a real-time, multitasking operating system developed by Norsk Data for its NORD series of minicomputers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
binary computer
ⓘ
early electronic digital computer ⓘ stored-program computer ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf | Binary Automatic Computer ⓘ |
| applicationDomain | aeronautical engineering ⓘ |
| architecture |
stored-program architecture
ⓘ
two-processor design ⓘ |
| category | first-generation computer ⓘ |
| client |
Northrop
ⓘ
surface form:
Northrop Aircraft
|
| clockFrequency | about 4.25 MHz pulse rate ⓘ |
| computingParadigm | von Neumann-style stored program ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| designOrganization | Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation ⓘ |
| developer |
Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation
ⓘ
J. Presper Eckert ⓘ John W. Mauchly ⓘ
surface form:
John Mauchly
|
| era | late 1940s ⓘ |
| fullName | Binary Automatic Computer ⓘ |
| historicalCategory | early American computer ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | pioneering step in modern computing ⓘ |
| influenced | UNIVAC I ⓘ |
| inputDevice | paper tape reader ⓘ |
| locationBuilt |
Philadelphia
ⓘ
surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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| logicType | serial binary arithmetic ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
one of the first operational stored-program computers in the United States
ⓘ
redundant dual-processor design for reliability ⓘ |
| numberOfTubes | approximately 700 vacuum tubes ⓘ |
| numberSystem | binary ⓘ |
| operationalStart | 1949 ⓘ |
| outputDevice |
paper tape punch
ⓘ
typewriter ⓘ |
| owner |
Northrop
ⓘ
surface form:
Northrop Aircraft
|
| powerSource | vacuum tubes ⓘ |
| predecessor |
ENIAC project
ⓘ
surface form:
ENIAC
|
| primaryMemoryCapacity | 512 words per unit ⓘ |
| primaryMemoryType | mercury delay-line memory ⓘ |
| programStorage | paper tape ⓘ |
| purpose |
defense-related calculations
ⓘ
general-purpose computing ⓘ |
| status | historical computer ⓘ |
| storageMedium | mercury delay lines ⓘ |
| successor |
UNIVAC I
ⓘ
surface form:
UNIVAC series
|
| technology | vacuum tube technology ⓘ |
| usedFor | guidance and navigation computations experiments ⓘ |
| wordLength | 31-bit word ⓘ |
| yearCompleted | 1949 ⓘ |
| yearDesigned | 1947 ⓘ |
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: BINAC Description of subject: BINAC was one of the earliest stored-program electronic digital computers, built in the late 1940s by J. Presper Eckert and his colleagues as a pioneering step in modern computing.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Presper Eckert
subject surface form:
John W. Mauchly
subject surface form:
John W. Mauchly