IBM 402 accounting machine
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The IBM 402 accounting machine was an electromechanical tabulator widely used in the mid-20th century for business data processing tasks such as sorting, tabulating, and printing information from punched cards.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| IBM 402 accounting machine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12035420 — 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 402 accounting machine Context triple: [IBM 604, usedInCombinationWith, IBM 402 accounting machine]
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A.
IBM 521 card punch
The IBM 521 card punch was an electromechanical unit record machine used to punch, read, and process data on punched cards in early IBM data processing systems.
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B.
Harvard Mark I computer
The Harvard Mark I computer was an early electromechanical, general-purpose computer built during World War II that pioneered the separation of data and instruction storage later known as the Harvard architecture.
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C.
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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D.
IBM 605
The IBM 605 was an early electronic calculating machine introduced in the 1940s that automated complex arithmetic operations for business and scientific applications.
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E.
Harvard Mark IV computer
The Harvard Mark IV computer was an early fully electronic, stored-program computer built at Harvard University in the late 1940s–early 1950s as part of the Mark series of pioneering computing machines.
- 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 402 accounting machine Target entity description: The IBM 402 accounting machine was an electromechanical tabulator widely used in the mid-20th century for business data processing tasks such as sorting, tabulating, and printing information from punched cards.
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A.
IBM 521 card punch
The IBM 521 card punch was an electromechanical unit record machine used to punch, read, and process data on punched cards in early IBM data processing systems.
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B.
Harvard Mark I computer
The Harvard Mark I computer was an early electromechanical, general-purpose computer built during World War II that pioneered the separation of data and instruction storage later known as the Harvard architecture.
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C.
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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D.
IBM 605
The IBM 605 was an early electronic calculating machine introduced in the 1940s that automated complex arithmetic operations for business and scientific applications.
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E.
Harvard Mark IV computer
The Harvard Mark IV computer was an early fully electronic, stored-program computer built at Harvard University in the late 1940s–early 1950s as part of the Mark series of pioneering computing machines.
- F. None of above. chosen
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