Binary Automatic Computer
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Binary Automatic Computer was an early American electronic digital computer built by Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation in the late 1940s, notable for being one of the first stored-program binary computers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Binary Automatic Computer canonical | 2 |
| BINAC | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11407143 — 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: Binary Automatic Computer Context triple: [BINAC, fullName, Binary Automatic Computer]
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A.
EDVAC
EDVAC was one of the earliest electronic stored-program computers, pioneering the use of binary arithmetic and influencing the development of modern computer architecture.
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B.
ORDVAC
ORDVAC was an early stored-program electronic computer built for the U.S. Army that helped pioneer modern computer architecture and numerical computation.
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C.
EDSAC
EDSAC was one of the earliest stored-program electronic computers, built at the University of Cambridge in the late 1940s and used primarily for scientific and mathematical research.
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D.
Johnniac computer
The Johnniac computer was an early vacuum-tube, stored-program computer built at the RAND Corporation in the 1950s, notable for its long operational life and use in pioneering artificial intelligence research.
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E.
Harvard Mark I computer
The Harvard Mark I computer was an early electromechanical, general-purpose computer built during World War II that pioneered the separation of data and instruction storage later known as the Harvard architecture.
- 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: Binary Automatic Computer Target entity description: Binary Automatic Computer was an early American electronic digital computer built by Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation in the late 1940s, notable for being one of the first stored-program binary computers.
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A.
EDVAC
EDVAC was one of the earliest electronic stored-program computers, pioneering the use of binary arithmetic and influencing the development of modern computer architecture.
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B.
ORDVAC
ORDVAC was an early stored-program electronic computer built for the U.S. Army that helped pioneer modern computer architecture and numerical computation.
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C.
EDSAC
EDSAC was one of the earliest stored-program electronic computers, built at the University of Cambridge in the late 1940s and used primarily for scientific and mathematical research.
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D.
Johnniac computer
The Johnniac computer was an early vacuum-tube, stored-program computer built at the RAND Corporation in the 1950s, notable for its long operational life and use in pioneering artificial intelligence research.
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E.
Harvard Mark I computer
The Harvard Mark I computer was an early electromechanical, general-purpose computer built during World War II that pioneered the separation of data and instruction storage later known as the Harvard architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
electronic digital computer
ⓘ
stored-program computer ⓘ |
| basedOn | binary numeral system ⓘ |
| category | early American computer ⓘ |
| computingArchitecture | stored-program architecture ⓘ |
| computingParadigm | serial processing ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dataRepresentation | binary ⓘ |
| developer | Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation ⓘ |
| era | late 1940s ⓘ |
| field |
computer engineering
ⓘ
computer science history ⓘ |
| hasAttribute |
digital
ⓘ
electronic ⓘ general-purpose ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | early history of computing ⓘ |
| logicType | binary logic ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the first stored-program binary computers ⓘ |
| precededBy | ENIAC ⓘ |
| programStorage | internal memory ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
EDVAC
ⓘ
UNIVAC I ⓘ |
| technology | vacuum tube ⓘ |
| usedFor |
engineering computation
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scientific computation ⓘ |
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: Binary Automatic Computer Description of subject: Binary Automatic Computer was an early American electronic digital computer built by Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation in the late 1940s, notable for being one of the first stored-program binary computers.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.