Data General

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Data General was an American minicomputer manufacturer known for its Eclipse and Nova systems and as a key rival to companies like Digital Equipment Corporation during the 1970s and 1980s.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Data General canonical 2
Data General Nova 1
Data General One 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf computer company
defunct company
minicomputer manufacturer
acquiredBy EMC Corporation
acquisitionDate 1999
competitor Digital Equipment Corporation
Hewlett-Packard
IBM
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dissolved early 2000s
era 1970s
1980s
foundedAs Data General Corporation
foundedBy Edson de Castro
Henry Burkhardt III
Herbert Richman
Richard Sogge
headquartersLocation Southboro, Massachusetts NERFINISHED
Westborough, Massachusetts NERFINISHED
inception 1968
industry computer hardware
minicomputers
keyPerson Edson de Castro
Ron Skates
knownFor CLARiiON
surface form: CLARiiON RAID storage systems

Eclipse 16-bit and 32-bit minicomputers
MV/8000 project
Nova 16-bit minicomputers
UNIX-based AViiON servers
early portable IBM PC-compatible laptop
locationFounded Hudson, Massachusetts NERFINISHED
notableProduct CLARiiON
Data General AViiON
Data General Eclipse
Data General MV series
Data General self-linksurface differs
surface form: Data General Nova

Data General self-linksurface differs
surface form: Data General One
notablePublication The Soul of a New Machine
notableTechnology AOS and AOS/VS operating systems
DG/UX UNIX operating system
Eclipse MV/8000 32-bit architecture
productType minicomputers
servers
storage systems
workstations
status defunct
stockExchange New York Stock Exchange
subjectOf The Soul of a New Machine
tickerSymbol DG

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: Data General
Description of subject: Data General was an American minicomputer manufacturer known for its Eclipse and Nova systems and as a key rival to companies like Digital Equipment Corporation during the 1970s and 1980s.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Data General notableProduct Data General self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Data General Nova
Data General notableProduct Data General self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Data General One
Prime Computer competition Data General