MITS Altair 8800
E202918
The MITS Altair 8800 is a pioneering 1975 microcomputer kit based on the Intel 8080 processor that helped launch the personal computer revolution and inspired early hobbyist and software ecosystems.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Altair 8800 | 3 |
| MITS Altair 8800 canonical | 2 |
| Altair 8800B | 1 |
| Altair 8800B Turnkey System | 1 |
| Altair 8800BT | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1821653 — 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: MITS Altair 8800 Context triple: [CP/M, usedOn, MITS Altair 8800]
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A.
Intel 8008
The Intel 8008 is an early 8-bit microprocessor introduced in 1972 that helped pioneer the development of general-purpose microcomputers.
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B.
COSMAC ELF computer
The COSMAC ELF computer is a simple, low-cost, build-it-yourself microcomputer from the late 1970s that became popular among hobbyists for learning and experimenting with early personal computing.
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C.
Intel 4004
The Intel 4004 is the first commercially available microprocessor, a 4-bit CPU introduced in 1971 that launched the microprocessor revolution.
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D.
PDP-7
The PDP-7 was a 1960s DEC minicomputer whose relatively low cost and flexible design made it popular in research labs and notable as the machine on which the first version of Unix was developed.
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E.
RCA 1802 microprocessor
The RCA 1802 microprocessor is an early CMOS-based 8-bit CPU notable for its low power consumption, radiation hardness, and use in spacecraft and embedded systems in the 1970s and 1980s.
- 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: MITS Altair 8800 Target entity description: The MITS Altair 8800 is a pioneering 1975 microcomputer kit based on the Intel 8080 processor that helped launch the personal computer revolution and inspired early hobbyist and software ecosystems.
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A.
Intel 8008
The Intel 8008 is an early 8-bit microprocessor introduced in 1972 that helped pioneer the development of general-purpose microcomputers.
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B.
COSMAC ELF computer
The COSMAC ELF computer is a simple, low-cost, build-it-yourself microcomputer from the late 1970s that became popular among hobbyists for learning and experimenting with early personal computing.
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C.
Intel 4004
The Intel 4004 is the first commercially available microprocessor, a 4-bit CPU introduced in 1971 that launched the microprocessor revolution.
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D.
PDP-7
The PDP-7 was a 1960s DEC minicomputer whose relatively low cost and flexible design made it popular in research labs and notable as the machine on which the first version of Unix was developed.
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E.
RCA 1802 microprocessor
The RCA 1802 microprocessor is an early CMOS-based 8-bit CPU notable for its low power consumption, radiation hardness, and use in spacecraft and embedded systems in the 1970s and 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: MITS Altair 8800 Description of subject: The MITS Altair 8800 is a pioneering 1975 microcomputer kit based on the Intel 8080 processor that helped launch the personal computer revolution and inspired early hobbyist and software ecosystems.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Altair 8800B
this entity surface form:
Altair 8800BT
this entity surface form:
Altair 8800B Turnkey System
this entity surface form:
Altair 8800
this entity surface form:
Altair 8800
this entity surface form:
Altair 8800