ENIAC
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ENIAC was one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers, built in the 1940s and used primarily for complex military and scientific calculations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| ENIAC canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11747127 — 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: ENIAC Context triple: [John W. Mauchly, coInvented, ENIAC]
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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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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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UNIVAC I
UNIVAC I was one of the earliest commercial electronic computers, pioneering large-scale data processing for government and business in the early 1950s.
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Z1 computer
The Z1 computer was an early mechanical binary programmable computer designed by German engineer Konrad Zuse in the late 1930s, regarded as a pioneering step toward modern computing.
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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.
- 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: ENIAC Target entity description: ENIAC was one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers, built in the 1940s and used primarily for complex military and scientific calculations.
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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.
UNIVAC I
UNIVAC I was one of the earliest commercial electronic computers, pioneering large-scale data processing for government and business in the early 1950s.
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D.
Z1 computer
The Z1 computer was an early mechanical binary programmable computer designed by German engineer Konrad Zuse in the late 1930s, regarded as a pioneering step toward modern computing.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.