Remington Rand

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company computer manufacturer typewriter manufacturer

Remington Rand was a major American business machines and early computer manufacturer, best known for producing the UNIVAC, one of the first commercial computers.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Remington Rand canonical	9
Sperry Rand	4
Remington Typewriter Company	2
Remington Rand UNIVAC division	1
Remington Rand typewriters	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	company ⓘ computer manufacturer ⓘ typewriter manufacturer ⓘ
acquired	Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation ⓘ Engineering Research Associates ⓘ
acquisitionDate	Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, 1950 ⓘ Engineering Research Associates, 1952 ⓘ
activityEnd	mid 1950s ⓘ
activityStart	late 1920s ⓘ
brandContinuedAs	Remington Rand self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Remington Rand typewriters
competitor	IBM ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
developedFrom	Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation technology ⓘ Engineering Research Associates technology ⓘ
field	data processing ⓘ information technology ⓘ
formedByMergerOf	Rand Kardex Company ⓘ Remington Rand self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Remington Typewriter Company
foundedBy	James Rand Jr. ⓘ
headquartersLocation	New York ⓘ
historicalSignificance	helped transition from mechanical office machines to electronic computers ⓘ
inception	1927 ⓘ
industry	business machines ⓘ computers ⓘ office equipment ⓘ
knownFor	early commercial data processing systems ⓘ pioneering commercial computing ⓘ
majorCustomer	Bureau of the Census ⓘ surface form: United States Census Bureau United States Armed Forces ⓘ surface form: United States military
mergedInto	Sperry Corporation ⓘ surface form: Sperry Rand
mergerDate	1955 ⓘ
notableFor	developing the UNIVAC series ⓘ producing one of the first commercial computers ⓘ
operatedInPeriod	20th century ⓘ
parentCompanyAfterMerger	Sperry Corporation ⓘ
predecessor	Rand Kardex Company ⓘ Remington Rand self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Remington Typewriter Company
product	UNIVAC I ⓘ UNIVAC II ⓘ UNIVAC I ⓘ surface form: UNIVAC computer line adding machines ⓘ office filing systems ⓘ tabulating equipment ⓘ typewriters ⓘ
successor	Sperry Corporation ⓘ Sperry Corporation ⓘ surface form: Sperry Rand
supplied	UNIVAC I to the U.S. Census Bureau ⓘ UNIVAC computers to government agencies ⓘ

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: Remington Rand
Description of subject: Remington Rand was a major American business machines and early computer manufacturer, best known for producing the UNIVAC, one of the first commercial computers.

Referenced by (17)

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

J. Presper Eckert → employer → Remington Rand ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sperry Rand

Grace Hopper → employer → Remington Rand ⓘ

John → employer → Remington Rand ⓘ

subject surface form: John Presper Eckert

John → employer → Remington Rand ⓘ

subject surface form: John Presper Eckert

this entity surface form: Sperry Rand

Remington Rand → formedByMergerOf → Remington Rand self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Remington Typewriter Company

Remington Rand → predecessor → Remington Rand self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Remington Typewriter Company

Remington Rand → brandContinuedAs → Remington Rand self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Remington Rand typewriters

UNIVAC I → manufacturer → Remington Rand ⓘ

UNIVAC I → marketedBy → Remington Rand ⓘ

this entity surface form: Remington Rand UNIVAC division

Sperry Corporation → acquired → Remington Rand ⓘ

Sperry Corporation → subsidiary → Remington Rand ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sperry Rand

A-0 System compiler → developedAt → Remington Rand ⓘ

FLOW-MATIC programming language → developer → Remington Rand ⓘ

subject surface form: FLOW-MATIC

FLOW-MATIC programming language → developer → Remington Rand ⓘ

subject surface form: FLOW-MATIC

this entity surface form: Sperry Rand

Amazing Grace → employer → Remington Rand ⓘ

subject surface form: Grace Hopper

UNIVAC Scientific (UNIVAC 1103) → manufacturer → Remington Rand ⓘ