UNIVAC I
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UNIVAC I was one of the earliest commercial electronic computers, pioneering large-scale data processing for government and business in the early 1950s.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| UNIVAC I canonical | 10 |
| UNIVAC | 6 |
| UNIVAC computer line | 1 |
| UNIVAC computer systems | 1 |
| UNIVAC computers | 1 |
| UNIVAC division of Sperry Rand | 1 |
| UNIVAC line of computers | 1 |
| UNIVAC series | 1 |
| Universal Automatic Computer I | 1 |
| electronic numerical integrator and computer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2532858 — 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.
Target entity: UNIVAC I Context triple: [John W. Mauchly, notableWork, UNIVAC I]
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A.
IBM 650
The IBM 650 was an early, widely used mid-1950s drum-based decimal computer that helped popularize electronic data processing in business and education.
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B.
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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C.
PDP-1
The PDP-1 was an early 1960s minicomputer famous for its interactive computing capabilities and for running some of the first video games, including "Spacewar!".
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D.
IBM 604
The IBM 604 was an early electromechanical electronic calculating punch introduced in the late 1940s, notable for being one of IBM’s first mass-produced programmable calculators used widely in business and scientific data processing.
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E.
International Computers and Tabulators
International Computers and Tabulators was a major British computer manufacturer formed in the late 1950s, known for producing early mainframe and business computers before eventually becoming part of ICL.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: UNIVAC I Target entity description: 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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A.
IBM 650
The IBM 650 was an early, widely used mid-1950s drum-based decimal computer that helped popularize electronic data processing in business and education.
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B.
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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C.
PDP-1
The PDP-1 was an early 1960s minicomputer famous for its interactive computing capabilities and for running some of the first video games, including "Spacewar!".
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D.
IBM 604
The IBM 604 was an early electromechanical electronic calculating punch introduced in the late 1940s, notable for being one of IBM’s first mass-produced programmable calculators used widely in business and scientific data processing.
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E.
International Computers and Tabulators
International Computers and Tabulators was a major British computer manufacturer formed in the late 1950s, known for producing early mainframe and business computers before eventually becoming part of ICL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial electronic computer
ⓘ
first-generation computer ⓘ mainframe computer ⓘ stored-program computer ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
UNIVAC I
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surface form:
Universal Automatic Computer I
|
| architecture | binary ⓘ |
| clockSpeed | 2.25 MHz ⓘ |
| commercialAvailability | 1951 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| designCompleted | 1949 ⓘ |
| developer |
J. Presper Eckert
ⓘ
John W. Mauchly ⓘ |
| era | early 1950s ⓘ |
| firstDelivered | 1951 ⓘ |
| firstDeliveredTo |
Bureau of the Census
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surface form:
United States Census Bureau
|
| historicalSignificance | helped establish the commercial computer industry ⓘ |
| inception | 1946 ⓘ |
| inputDevice |
UNISERVO magnetic tape drive
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paper tape reader ⓘ |
| mainMemoryCapacity |
1000 words
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12000 characters ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation
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Remington Rand ⓘ |
| marketedBy |
Remington Rand
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surface form:
Remington Rand UNIVAC division
|
| memoryType | mercury delay-line memory ⓘ |
| notableEvent | predicted outcome of the 1952 U.S. presidential election ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being among the first commercially available computers in the United States
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pioneering large-scale electronic data processing ⓘ |
| numberBuilt | 46 ⓘ |
| numberOfVacuumTubes | about 5200 ⓘ |
| outputDevice | printer ⓘ |
| powerConsumption | about 125 kW ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
business data processing
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government data processing ⓘ large-scale data processing ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
assembly language
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machine code ⓘ |
| storageMedium | metal magnetic tape ⓘ |
| successor | UNIVAC II ⓘ |
| tapeCapacity | about 1.44 megabytes per reel ⓘ |
| tapeSpeed | 128 inches per second ⓘ |
| technology | vacuum tubes ⓘ |
| usedBy |
United States Atomic Energy Commission
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surface form:
Atomic Energy Commission
United States Air Force ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Air Force
United States Army ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Army
United States Navy ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Navy
Bureau of the Census ⓘ
surface form:
United States Census Bureau
private corporations ⓘ |
| weight | about 13 metric tons ⓘ |
| wordLength |
12 characters
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72 bits ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: UNIVAC I Description of subject: UNIVAC I was one of the earliest commercial electronic computers, pioneering large-scale data processing for government and business in the early 1950s.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.