VAX minicomputer
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The VAX minicomputer is a line of 32-bit computers developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) that became widely used in the late 1970s and 1980s for timesharing, scientific, and business applications.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Digital Equipment Corporation VAX series | 1 |
| VAX microprocessor | 1 |
| VAX minicomputer canonical | 1 |
| VAX minicomputers | 1 |
| VAX-11/780 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9532484 — 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: VAX minicomputer Context triple: [VMS operating system, originallyDesignedFor, VAX minicomputer]
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A.
PDP-10
The PDP-10 was a family of mainframe computers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation in the late 1960s and 1970s, widely used in research and time-sharing systems and influential in the development of early programming languages and operating systems.
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B.
Honeywell 316 minicomputer
The Honeywell 316 minicomputer was a small, 16-bit general-purpose computer from the late 1960s widely used in early networking and control applications.
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C.
PDP-9
The PDP-9 was a 1960s 18-bit minicomputer from Digital Equipment Corporation that introduced advanced features and improved performance over its predecessors in the PDP series.
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D.
DECsystem-10
The DECsystem-10 was a family of influential 36-bit mainframe computers introduced in the 1960s, widely used in universities and research institutions for time-sharing and early networked computing.
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E.
Prime Computer
Prime Computer was a U.S. minicomputer manufacturer prominent in the 1970s and 1980s, known for its PRIMOS operating system and 16-bit and 32-bit business systems.
- 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: VAX minicomputer Target entity description: The VAX minicomputer is a line of 32-bit computers developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) that became widely used in the late 1970s and 1980s for timesharing, scientific, and business applications.
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A.
PDP-10
The PDP-10 was a family of mainframe computers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation in the late 1960s and 1970s, widely used in research and time-sharing systems and influential in the development of early programming languages and operating systems.
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B.
Honeywell 316 minicomputer
The Honeywell 316 minicomputer was a small, 16-bit general-purpose computer from the late 1960s widely used in early networking and control applications.
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C.
PDP-9
The PDP-9 was a 1960s 18-bit minicomputer from Digital Equipment Corporation that introduced advanced features and improved performance over its predecessors in the PDP series.
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D.
DECsystem-10
The DECsystem-10 was a family of influential 36-bit mainframe computers introduced in the 1960s, widely used in universities and research institutions for time-sharing and early networked computing.
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E.
Prime Computer
Prime Computer was a U.S. minicomputer manufacturer prominent in the 1970s and 1980s, known for its PRIMOS operating system and 16-bit and 32-bit business systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer line
ⓘ
minicomputer family ⓘ |
| addressSpace | virtual memory ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | VAX ⓘ |
| architectureType | 32-bit ⓘ |
| company |
Digital Equipment Corporation
ⓘ
linked to:
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| cpuArchitecture |
VAX architecture
ⓘ
linked to:
VAX
|
| designedFor |
business applications
ⓘ
scientific computing ⓘ timesharing ⓘ |
| developer | Digital Equipment Corporation ⓘ |
| firstModel | VAX-11/780 ⓘ |
| influenced |
DEC Alpha architecture
ⓘ
linked to:
DEC Alpha
|
| instructionSetType | CISC ⓘ |
| introduced | 1977 ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Digital Equipment Corporation ⓘ |
| marketedAs | Virtual Address eXtension ⓘ |
| marketSegment | minicomputers ⓘ |
| networkingSupport | DECnet ⓘ |
| notableModel |
MicroVAX
ⓘ
VAX 8600 ⓘ
linked to:
VAX
VAX-11/730 ⓘ VAX-11/750 ⓘ VAXstation ⓘ |
| notableOS |
VAX/VMS
ⓘ
linked to:
VMS operating system
|
| popularPeriod |
1980s
ⓘ
late 1970s ⓘ |
| successor |
DEC Alpha systems
ⓘ
linked to:
DEC Alpha servers
|
| supportsLanguage |
Ada
ⓘ
C ⓘ COBOL ⓘ Fortran ⓘ Pascal ⓘ |
| supportsOperatingSystem |
Ultrix
ⓘ
VMS ⓘ |
| usedFor |
batch processing
ⓘ
business data processing ⓘ engineering applications ⓘ interactive computing ⓘ multi-user computing ⓘ scientific simulations ⓘ time-sharing services ⓘ |
| usedIn |
commercial data centers
ⓘ
research laboratories ⓘ universities ⓘ |
| wordSize | 32-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: VAX minicomputer Description of subject: The VAX minicomputer is a line of 32-bit computers developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) that became widely used in the late 1970s and 1980s for timesharing, scientific, and business applications.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: VAX minicomputer
linked to: VAX minicomputer