IBM 1401, A User’s Manual
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IBM 1401, A User’s Manual is an ambient/electronic concept album by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson that blends orchestral music with vintage computer sounds inspired by the IBM 1401 mainframe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IBM 1401, A User’s Manual canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6128776 — 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: IBM 1401, A User’s Manual Context triple: [Jóhann Jóhannsson, notableWork, IBM 1401, A User’s Manual]
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A.
IBM 7090 operating environment
The IBM 7090 operating environment is the system software and runtime framework that supported program execution, compilation, and job control on IBM’s 7090 mainframe computer.
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B.
Control Program for Microcomputers
Control Program for Microcomputers is an early operating system widely used on 8-bit microcomputers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, known for influencing the design of later systems like MS-DOS.
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C.
IBM 7090 ALGOL compiler
The IBM 7090 ALGOL compiler was an early and influential implementation of the ALGOL 60 programming language designed for IBM's 7090 mainframe, used primarily in scientific and engineering computing.
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D.
IBM 7090 FORTRAN compiler
The IBM 7090 FORTRAN compiler was an early high-level language compiler developed by IBM for its 7090 mainframe, widely used in the 1960s for scientific and engineering computing.
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E.
First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC
First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC is a seminal 1945 technical report that laid out the stored-program computer architecture that became the foundation for most modern computers.
- 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: IBM 1401, A User’s Manual Target entity description: IBM 1401, A User’s Manual is an ambient/electronic concept album by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson that blends orchestral music with vintage computer sounds inspired by the IBM 1401 mainframe.
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A.
IBM 7090 operating environment
The IBM 7090 operating environment is the system software and runtime framework that supported program execution, compilation, and job control on IBM’s 7090 mainframe computer.
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B.
Control Program for Microcomputers
Control Program for Microcomputers is an early operating system widely used on 8-bit microcomputers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, known for influencing the design of later systems like MS-DOS.
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C.
IBM 7090 ALGOL compiler
The IBM 7090 ALGOL compiler was an early and influential implementation of the ALGOL 60 programming language designed for IBM's 7090 mainframe, used primarily in scientific and engineering computing.
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D.
IBM 7090 FORTRAN compiler
The IBM 7090 FORTRAN compiler was an early high-level language compiler developed by IBM for its 7090 mainframe, widely used in the 1960s for scientific and engineering computing.
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E.
First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC
First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC is a seminal 1945 technical report that laid out the stored-program computer architecture that became the foundation for most modern computers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concept album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Jóhann Jóhannsson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Jóhann Jóhannsson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Iceland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | Icelandic ⓘ |
| features |
archival recordings
ⓘ
spoken-word elements ⓘ string orchestra arrangements ⓘ |
| genre |
ambient
ⓘ
contemporary classical music ⓘ electronic ⓘ |
| hasArtisticApproach | blend of orchestral and electronic textures ⓘ |
| hasFormat | album ⓘ |
| hasMedium | audio recording ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
cinematic
ⓘ
minimalist ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
IBM 1401
NERFINISHED
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early mainframe computers ⓘ |
| hasThematicFocus |
history of computing
ⓘ
relationship between humans and machines ⓘ |
| hasType | conceptual work about early computing ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | IBM 1401 mainframe computer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| partOfCareerOf | Jóhann Jóhannsson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Jóhann Jóhannsson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesSoundSources |
orchestral music
ⓘ
vintage computer sounds ⓘ |
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: IBM 1401, A User’s Manual Description of subject: IBM 1401, A User’s Manual is an ambient/electronic concept album by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson that blends orchestral music with vintage computer sounds inspired by the IBM 1401 mainframe.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.