CDC 6600
E1033548
The CDC 6600 was a pioneering supercomputer introduced in the 1960s that is often regarded as the first successful supercomputer and held the title of the world’s fastest computer for several years.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CDC 6600 canonical | 5 |
| CDC 6000 series | 1 |
| CDC 6600 computer | 1 |
| CDC 6600 supercomputer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13316965 — 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: CDC 6600 Context triple: [Control Data Corporation, notableProduct, CDC 6600]
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A.
IBM 704
The IBM 704 was a pioneering 1950s vacuum-tube mainframe computer notable for its support of floating-point arithmetic and its influential role in early high-level programming languages and computer architecture.
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B.
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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C.
PDP-9
The PDP-9 was a 1960s 18-bit minicomputer from Digital Equipment Corporation that introduced advanced features and improved performance over its predecessors in the PDP series.
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D.
PDP-6
The PDP-6 was a 36-bit mainframe computer developed by Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1960s, notable for its time-sharing capabilities and influence on later PDP-10 systems.
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E.
PDP-7
The PDP-7 was a 1960s DEC minicomputer whose relatively low cost and flexible design made it popular in research labs and notable as the machine on which the first version of Unix was developed.
- 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: CDC 6600 Target entity description: The CDC 6600 was a pioneering supercomputer introduced in the 1960s that is often regarded as the first successful supercomputer and held the title of the world’s fastest computer for several years.
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A.
IBM 704
The IBM 704 was a pioneering 1950s vacuum-tube mainframe computer notable for its support of floating-point arithmetic and its influential role in early high-level programming languages and computer architecture.
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B.
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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C.
PDP-9
The PDP-9 was a 1960s 18-bit minicomputer from Digital Equipment Corporation that introduced advanced features and improved performance over its predecessors in the PDP series.
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D.
PDP-6
The PDP-6 was a 36-bit mainframe computer developed by Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1960s, notable for its time-sharing capabilities and influence on later PDP-10 systems.
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E.
PDP-7
The PDP-7 was a 1960s DEC minicomputer whose relatively low cost and flexible design made it popular in research labs and notable as the machine on which the first version of Unix was developed.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mainframe computer
ⓘ
supercomputer ⓘ |
| announced | 1963 ⓘ |
| architecture |
central processor with peripheral processors
ⓘ
scalar ⓘ |
| category |
1960s computer hardware
ⓘ
historical supercomputers ⓘ |
| clockFrequency | 10 MHz ⓘ |
| coolingMethod | freon-based refrigeration ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| designer | Seymour Cray ⓘ |
| fastestComputerFrom | 1964 ⓘ |
| fastestComputerUntil | 1969 ⓘ |
| formFactor | C-shaped central processor cabinet ⓘ |
| heldTitle | world’s fastest computer ⓘ |
| influenced |
Cray-1
ⓘ
later vector supercomputers ⓘ |
| introduced | 1964 ⓘ |
| logicFamily | silicon transistor logic ⓘ |
| mainMemoryCapacity | up to 131072 60-bit words ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Control Data Corporation ⓘ |
| market |
government laboratories
ⓘ
large research institutions ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
instruction pipelining
ⓘ
parallel I/O via peripheral processors ⓘ scoreboard for dynamic instruction scheduling ⓘ |
| notableFor | establishing Control Data Corporation as a leading supercomputer vendor ⓘ |
| notableInstallation |
CERN
ⓘ
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory ⓘ
linked to:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
National Center for Atmospheric Research ⓘ |
| numberOfPeripheralProcessors | 10 ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
KRONOS
ⓘ
SCOPE ⓘ |
| peakPerformance | 3 megaFLOPS ⓘ |
| powerConsumption | approximately 150 kW ⓘ |
| predecessor | CDC 1604 ⓘ |
| priceAtIntroduction | about 8 million US dollars ⓘ |
| programmingLanguagesSupported |
COMPASS assembly language
ⓘ
FORTRAN ⓘ
linked to:
Fortran
|
| regardedAs | first successful supercomputer ⓘ |
| successor | CDC 7600 ⓘ |
| technology | discrete transistors ⓘ |
| usedFor |
aerodynamic simulations
ⓘ
nuclear weapons research ⓘ scientific computing ⓘ weather modeling ⓘ |
| weight | several tons ⓘ |
| wordLength | 60 bits ⓘ |
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: CDC 6600 Description of subject: The CDC 6600 was a pioneering supercomputer introduced in the 1960s that is often regarded as the first successful supercomputer and held the title of the world’s fastest computer for several years.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: CDC 6600
linked to: CDC 6600
linked to: CDC 6600
subject linked to:
Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation, Honeywell