MANIAC I
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MANIAC I was an early, pioneering electronic digital computer built in the 1950s at Los Alamos National Laboratory, notable for its role in scientific and nuclear weapons calculations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MANIAC I canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4093909 — 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: MANIAC I Context triple: [IAS machine, influenced, MANIAC I]
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A.
Maniac
Maniac is a dark comedy-drama miniseries that blends psychological sci-fi and surreal storytelling, in which Emma Stone stars as a troubled woman participating in a mysterious pharmaceutical trial.
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B.
Maniac
Maniac is a 2012 psychological slasher film, presented largely from the killer’s point of view, in which Elijah Wood portrays a disturbed serial murderer in a brutal, stylized remake of the 1980 cult classic.
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C.
Darkman
Darkman is a 1990 superhero horror film directed by Sam Raimi, known for its dark tone, inventive visual style, and Liam Neeson's portrayal of a disfigured scientist seeking revenge.
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D.
Master Man
Master Man is a Nazi supervillain in Marvel Comics, often portrayed as a physically enhanced adversary of the World War II–era superhero team the Invaders.
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E.
Manhunter (film)
Manhunter is a 1986 psychological crime thriller directed by Michael Mann, notable as the first film adaptation of Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels.
- 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: MANIAC I Target entity description: MANIAC I was an early, pioneering electronic digital computer built in the 1950s at Los Alamos National Laboratory, notable for its role in scientific and nuclear weapons calculations.
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A.
Maniac
Maniac is a dark comedy-drama miniseries that blends psychological sci-fi and surreal storytelling, in which Emma Stone stars as a troubled woman participating in a mysterious pharmaceutical trial.
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B.
Maniac
Maniac is a 2012 psychological slasher film, presented largely from the killer’s point of view, in which Elijah Wood portrays a disturbed serial murderer in a brutal, stylized remake of the 1980 cult classic.
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C.
Darkman
Darkman is a 1990 superhero horror film directed by Sam Raimi, known for its dark tone, inventive visual style, and Liam Neeson's portrayal of a disfigured scientist seeking revenge.
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D.
Master Man
Master Man is a Nazi supervillain in Marvel Comics, often portrayed as a physically enhanced adversary of the World War II–era superhero team the Invaders.
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E.
Manhunter (film)
Manhunter is a 1986 psychological crime thriller directed by Michael Mann, notable as the first film adaptation of Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
early computer
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electronic digital computer ⓘ scientific computer ⓘ stored-program computer ⓘ |
| architectureDesigner | John von Neumann ⓘ |
| basedOn | IAS architecture ⓘ |
| commissionedBy |
United States Atomic Energy Commission
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surface form:
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
|
| completionDate | 1952 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decadeOfOperation | 1950s ⓘ |
| developer |
Los Alamos Laboratory
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Alamos National Laboratory
|
| era | first generation computers ⓘ |
| fieldOfUse |
computational physics
ⓘ
mathematical physics ⓘ nuclear physics ⓘ |
| inputMethod |
paper tape
ⓘ
punched cards ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | IAS machine ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Los Alamos Laboratory
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico ⓘ |
| logicType | vacuum tube logic ⓘ |
| memoryType |
Williams tube
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surface form:
Williams tube memory
electrostatic memory ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early implementation of Monte Carlo methods
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pioneering role in scientific computing ⓘ role in nuclear weapons design calculations ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Los Alamos Laboratory
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surface form:
Los Alamos Theoretical Division
|
| operationalStatus | decommissioned ⓘ |
| outputMethod | printed output ⓘ |
| powerSource | mains electricity ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
assembly language
ⓘ
machine code ⓘ |
| programStorage | stored program in memory ⓘ |
| purpose |
nuclear weapons calculations
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scientific calculations ⓘ thermonuclear weapon design calculations ⓘ |
| startDate | 1952 ⓘ |
| successor | MANIAC II ⓘ |
| technology | vacuum tubes ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Edward Teller
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Enrico Fermi ⓘ Los Alamos scientists ⓘ Nicholas Metropolis ⓘ Stanislaw Ulam ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Monte Carlo calculations
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hydrodynamic simulations ⓘ numerical analysis ⓘ partial differential equation solving ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: MANIAC I Description of subject: MANIAC I was an early, pioneering electronic digital computer built in the 1950s at Los Alamos National Laboratory, notable for its role in scientific and nuclear weapons calculations.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.