Deep Blue
E382927
Deep Blue was IBM's pioneering chess-playing supercomputer that famously defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, marking a milestone in artificial intelligence.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Deep Blue canonical | 3 |
| Garry Kasparov vs. Deep Blue 1996 match | 1 |
| IBM Deep Blue | 1 |
| IBM Deep Blue chess computer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3708909 — 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: Deep Blue Context triple: [Garry Kasparov, playedMatchAgainst, Deep Blue]
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A.
Watson
Watson is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures, including scientists, artists, and public personalities.
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Fritz
Fritz is the hunchbacked assistant to Dr. Frankenstein in the 1931 horror film "Frankenstein," known for helping to procure the monster’s body parts and brain.
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Fritz
Fritz London was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for his pioneering work on quantum mechanics and the theory of intermolecular forces, including London dispersion forces.
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D.
Fritz
Fritz is an individual known primarily as the offspring of Fifi.
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E.
Big Blue
Big Blue is the widely used nickname for the New York Giants, a professional American football team in the NFL.
- 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: Deep Blue Target entity description: Deep Blue was IBM's pioneering chess-playing supercomputer that famously defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, marking a milestone in artificial intelligence.
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A.
Watson
Watson is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures, including scientists, artists, and public personalities.
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B.
Fritz
Fritz is the hunchbacked assistant to Dr. Frankenstein in the 1931 horror film "Frankenstein," known for helping to procure the monster’s body parts and brain.
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C.
Fritz
Fritz London was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for his pioneering work on quantum mechanics and the theory of intermolecular forces, including London dispersion forces.
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D.
Fritz
Fritz is an individual known primarily as the offspring of Fifi.
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E.
Big Blue
Big Blue is the widely used nickname for the New York Giants, a professional American football team in the NFL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IBM computer system
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chess-playing computer ⓘ supercomputer ⓘ |
| basedOn | parallel computing architecture ⓘ |
| category |
IBM Roadrunner supercomputer
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surface form:
IBM supercomputer
computer chess engine ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| developer |
IBM
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IBM Research ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt | Computer History Museum ⓘ |
| field |
artificial intelligence
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computer chess ⓘ high-performance computing ⓘ |
| hardwareType |
IBM RS/6000 systems
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surface form:
IBM RS/6000 SP
|
| inspiredBy |
ChipTest
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Deep Thought ⓘ |
| matchEndDate | 1997-05-11 ⓘ |
| matchLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| matchResult | won 3.5–2.5 against Garry Kasparov in 1997 ⓘ |
| matchStartDate | 1997-05-03 ⓘ |
| matchVenue | Equitable Center, New York ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
defeated Garry Kasparov in a match in 1997
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first computer system to defeat a reigning world chess champion in a match under standard time controls ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | AIX ⓘ |
| opponent | Garry Kasparov ⓘ |
| owner | IBM ⓘ |
| peakPerformance | approximately 200 million chess positions per second ⓘ |
| previousMatchOpponent | Garry Kasparov ⓘ |
| previousMatchResult | lost 2–4 to Garry Kasparov in 1996 ⓘ |
| previousMatchYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| projectLeader | Feng-hsiung Hsu ⓘ |
| significance |
milestone in artificial intelligence
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milestone in computer chess ⓘ symbol of human–computer competition in games ⓘ |
| successor | Deeper Blue ⓘ |
| teamMember |
C. J. Tan
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Jerry Brody ⓘ Joel Benjamin ⓘ Joseph Hoane ⓘ Murray Campbell ⓘ |
| usedProcessor |
POWER2 RISC processor
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surface form:
POWER2 Super Chip
|
| usedProgrammingLanguage |
Assembly language
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C ⓘ |
| usedSearchAlgorithm |
alpha–beta pruning
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minimax search ⓘ |
| usedSpecializedHardware | chess search chips ⓘ |
| usedTechnique |
brute-force search
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endgame databases ⓘ opening book ⓘ |
| yearOfFamousMatch | 1997 ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstVersion | 1989 ⓘ |
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: Deep Blue Description of subject: Deep Blue was IBM's pioneering chess-playing supercomputer that famously defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, marking a milestone in artificial intelligence.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
IBM Deep Blue chess computer
this entity surface form:
IBM Deep Blue
this entity surface form:
Garry Kasparov vs. Deep Blue 1996 match