Motorola 6809
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The Motorola 6809 is an 8-bit microprocessor introduced in the late 1970s, notable for its advanced instruction set, powerful addressing modes, and use in early home computers and embedded systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Motorola 6809 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8952456 — 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: Motorola 6809 Context triple: [Motorola 6800, influenced, Motorola 6809]
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A.
Motorola 6802
The Motorola 6802 is an 8-bit microprocessor, compatible with the 6800 family, that integrates an internal clock oscillator and on-chip RAM for use in embedded systems and early microcomputer designs.
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B.
Motorola 6800 microprocessor
The Motorola 6800 microprocessor is an 8-bit CPU introduced in the mid-1970s that became influential in early microcomputer and embedded system designs.
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C.
Motorola 68000 family
The Motorola 68000 family is a line of 16/32-bit CISC microprocessors widely used in early personal computers, workstations, and game consoles during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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D.
Motorola 68010
The Motorola 68010 is a 16/32-bit CISC microprocessor, an enhanced and more efficient successor to the Motorola 68000 widely used in early workstations and computers.
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E.
MOS Technology 6502
The MOS Technology 6502 is an influential 8-bit microprocessor introduced in the mid-1970s that powered many early personal computers and game consoles, including the Apple II, Commodore 64, and Nintendo Entertainment System.
- 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: Motorola 6809 Target entity description: The Motorola 6809 is an 8-bit microprocessor introduced in the late 1970s, notable for its advanced instruction set, powerful addressing modes, and use in early home computers and embedded systems.
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A.
Motorola 6802
The Motorola 6802 is an 8-bit microprocessor, compatible with the 6800 family, that integrates an internal clock oscillator and on-chip RAM for use in embedded systems and early microcomputer designs.
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B.
Motorola 6800 microprocessor
The Motorola 6800 microprocessor is an 8-bit CPU introduced in the mid-1970s that became influential in early microcomputer and embedded system designs.
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C.
Motorola 68000 family
The Motorola 68000 family is a line of 16/32-bit CISC microprocessors widely used in early personal computers, workstations, and game consoles during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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D.
Motorola 68010
The Motorola 68010 is a 16/32-bit CISC microprocessor, an enhanced and more efficient successor to the Motorola 68000 widely used in early workstations and computers.
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E.
MOS Technology 6502
The MOS Technology 6502 is an influential 8-bit microprocessor introduced in the mid-1970s that powered many early personal computers and game consoles, including the Apple II, Commodore 64, and Nintendo Entertainment System.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
8-bit microprocessor
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microprocessor ⓘ |
| addressBusWidth | 16-bit ⓘ |
| architecture | CISC ⓘ |
| compatibleWith | Motorola 6800 source code at assembly level ⓘ |
| dataBusWidth | 8-bit ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
16-bit accumulator D formed from A and B
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fast interrupt FIRQ ⓘ maskable interrupt IRQ ⓘ non-maskable interrupt NMI ⓘ orthogonal instruction set ⓘ position-independent code support ⓘ reentrant code support ⓘ two stack pointers ⓘ |
| hasRegister |
A accumulator
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B accumulator ⓘ CC condition code register ⓘ D accumulator ⓘ DP direct page register ⓘ PC program counter ⓘ S hardware stack pointer ⓘ U stack pointer ⓘ X index register ⓘ Y index register ⓘ |
| instructionSetSize | approximately 59 basic instructions ⓘ |
| introducedInDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Motorola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advanced addressing modes for an 8-bit CPU
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use in arcade and gaming systems ⓘ use in early home computers ⓘ |
| predecessor | Motorola 6800 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Hitachi 6309 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsAddressingMode |
auto-decrement addressing
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auto-increment addressing ⓘ direct addressing ⓘ extended addressing ⓘ immediate addressing ⓘ indexed addressing ⓘ indirect addressing ⓘ relative addressing ⓘ stack-relative addressing ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Dragon 32
NERFINISHED
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Dragon 64 NERFINISHED ⓘ TRS-80 Color Computer NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomson MO5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomson TO7/70 NERFINISHED ⓘ Vectrex game console NERFINISHED ⓘ embedded systems ⓘ industrial control systems ⓘ |
| wordSize | 8-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: Motorola 6809 Description of subject: The Motorola 6809 is an 8-bit microprocessor introduced in the late 1970s, notable for its advanced instruction set, powerful addressing modes, and use in early home computers and embedded systems.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Motorola 6800
subject surface form:
Motorola 6800