Busicom
E170416
Busicom was a Japanese calculator and electronics company best known for commissioning the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Busicom canonical | 1 |
| Busicom 141-PF calculator | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1499601 — 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: Busicom Context triple: [Intel 4004, originalCustomer, Busicom]
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A.
COSMAC ELF computer
The COSMAC ELF computer is a simple, low-cost, build-it-yourself microcomputer from the late 1970s that became popular among hobbyists for learning and experimenting with early personal computing.
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B.
Acorn Computers
Acorn Computers was a pioneering British computer company best known for developing early personal computers and creating the ARM architecture that became foundational in modern computing devices.
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C.
Signetics
Signetics was an early integrated circuit and semiconductor manufacturer that became known for pioneering memory and logic chips before being acquired by Philips.
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D.
Honeywell 316 minicomputer
The Honeywell 316 minicomputer was a small, 16-bit general-purpose computer from the late 1960s widely used in early networking and control applications.
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E.
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering American computer company best known for its influential minicomputers and major role in the development of modern computing.
- 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: Busicom Target entity description: Busicom was a Japanese calculator and electronics company best known for commissioning the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor.
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A.
COSMAC ELF computer
The COSMAC ELF computer is a simple, low-cost, build-it-yourself microcomputer from the late 1970s that became popular among hobbyists for learning and experimenting with early personal computing.
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B.
Acorn Computers
Acorn Computers was a pioneering British computer company best known for developing early personal computers and creating the ARM architecture that became foundational in modern computing devices.
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C.
Signetics
Signetics was an early integrated circuit and semiconductor manufacturer that became known for pioneering memory and logic chips before being acquired by Philips.
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D.
Honeywell 316 minicomputer
The Honeywell 316 minicomputer was a small, 16-bit general-purpose computer from the late 1960s widely used in early networking and control applications.
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E.
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering American computer company best known for its influential minicomputers and major role in the development of modern computing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
calculator manufacturer
ⓘ
company ⓘ electronics company ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
LSI (large-scale integration) calculator chips
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early 1970s computing hardware ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Intel
ⓘ
linked to:
Intel Corporation
|
| commissioned | Intel 4004 ⓘ |
| commissionedFrom |
Intel
ⓘ
linked to:
Intel Corporation
|
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | enabled development of the first commercial microprocessor ⓘ |
| industry |
calculator industry
ⓘ
electronics industry ⓘ |
| influenced |
calculator design
ⓘ
microprocessor industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
commissioning the Intel 4004 microprocessor
ⓘ
electronic calculators ⓘ |
| market |
business calculators
ⓘ
office equipment ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
Busicom 141-PF calculator
ⓘ
linked to:
Busicom
|
| productType |
calculator chipsets
ⓘ
desktop calculators ⓘ printing calculators ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Japan
ⓘ
international markets ⓘ |
| roleInHistory | pioneer in commercial microprocessor applications ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| technologyDomain |
digital electronics
ⓘ
semiconductor-based calculators ⓘ |
| usedMicroprocessor | Intel 4004 ⓘ |
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: Busicom Description of subject: Busicom was a Japanese calculator and electronics company best known for commissioning the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Busicom