HP 9000 series 400
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The HP 9000 series 400 was a line of high-performance technical workstations from Hewlett-Packard, widely used in engineering and scientific computing during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HP 9000 series 400 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8520932 — 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: HP 9000 series 400 Context triple: [Apollo/HP workstations, notableModel, HP 9000 series 400]
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A.
HP 9000 Series 300
The HP 9000 Series 300 was a line of Hewlett-Packard 32-bit Motorola 68000-based technical workstations widely used in engineering and scientific computing during the 1980s.
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B.
HP 9000 Series 200
The HP 9000 Series 200 is a line of early 1980s Hewlett-Packard technical workstations designed for engineering and scientific computing, notable for running HP-UX and other development tools.
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C.
Sun-4 workstation
The Sun-4 workstation is a line of SPARC-based UNIX workstations from Sun Microsystems that succeeded the Motorola 680x0-based Sun-3 series and became a widely used engineering and server platform in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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D.
HP PA-RISC
HP PA-RISC is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) microprocessor architecture developed by Hewlett-Packard for use in its workstations and servers.
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E.
Compaq Armada 4100 series
The Compaq Armada 4100 series is a line of mid-1990s business-oriented notebook computers known for their modular design and use in corporate and professional environments.
- 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: HP 9000 series 400 Target entity description: The HP 9000 series 400 was a line of high-performance technical workstations from Hewlett-Packard, widely used in engineering and scientific computing during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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A.
HP 9000 Series 300
The HP 9000 Series 300 was a line of Hewlett-Packard 32-bit Motorola 68000-based technical workstations widely used in engineering and scientific computing during the 1980s.
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B.
HP 9000 Series 200
The HP 9000 Series 200 is a line of early 1980s Hewlett-Packard technical workstations designed for engineering and scientific computing, notable for running HP-UX and other development tools.
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C.
Sun-4 workstation
The Sun-4 workstation is a line of SPARC-based UNIX workstations from Sun Microsystems that succeeded the Motorola 680x0-based Sun-3 series and became a widely used engineering and server platform in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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D.
HP PA-RISC
HP PA-RISC is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) microprocessor architecture developed by Hewlett-Packard for use in its workstations and servers.
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E.
Compaq Armada 4100 series
The Compaq Armada 4100 series is a line of mid-1990s business-oriented notebook computers known for their modular design and use in corporate and professional environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer hardware platform
ⓘ
workstation family ⓘ |
| architecture |
Motorola 68030
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Motorola 68040 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| busArchitecture | HP-proprietary expansion bus ⓘ |
| category | RISC and CISC workstations ⓘ |
| concurrentSeries | HP 9000 series 300 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| cpuFamily | Motorola 680x0 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedFor |
UNIX software development
ⓘ
scientific visualization ⓘ technical computing workloads ⓘ |
| formFactor | desktop workstation ⓘ |
| graphicsCapability |
2D graphics acceleration
ⓘ
3D graphics support ⓘ |
| intendedUse |
engineering computing
ⓘ
scientific computing ⓘ technical workstation applications ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Hewlett-Packard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketedAs | high-performance technical workstation ⓘ |
| multiTaskingSupport | yes ⓘ |
| multiUserSupport | yes ⓘ |
| networking | Ethernet support ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Domain/OS
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
HP-UX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| osFamily | UNIX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | HP 9000 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryProgrammingLanguages |
C
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fortran NERFINISHED ⓘ Pascal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productLine | HP 9000 technical workstations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releasePeriod |
early 1990s
ⓘ
late 1980s ⓘ |
| successorSeries | HP 9000 series 700 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsTimeSharing | yes ⓘ |
| supportsVirtualMemory | yes ⓘ |
| targetMarket |
engineering workgroups
ⓘ
scientific institutions ⓘ technical professionals ⓘ |
| usedFor |
computer-aided design
ⓘ
computer-aided engineering ⓘ graphics-intensive applications ⓘ numerical simulation ⓘ |
| wordSize | 32-bit ⓘ |
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: HP 9000 series 400 Description of subject: The HP 9000 series 400 was a line of high-performance technical workstations from Hewlett-Packard, widely used in engineering and scientific computing during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.