CII Honeywell Bull
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CII Honeywell Bull was a French computer company formed through a partnership involving Compagnie Internationale pour l’Informatique (CII) and Honeywell Bull, known for developing mainframe and minicomputer systems in the 1970s and 1980s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CII Honeywell Bull canonical | 2 |
| Honeywell Bull | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2252309 — 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: CII Honeywell Bull Context triple: [Louis Pouzin, employer, CII Honeywell Bull]
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A.
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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B.
Honeywell DDP-516 minicomputer
The Honeywell DDP-516 minicomputer was a rugged, 16-bit computer from the 1960s widely used in real-time and military applications, notably serving as the hardware platform for the original ARPANET Interface Message Processors.
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C.
Prime Computer
Prime Computer was a U.S. minicomputer manufacturer prominent in the 1970s and 1980s, known for its PRIMOS operating system and 16-bit and 32-bit business systems.
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D.
Apollo Computer
Apollo Computer was an American computer company best known for pioneering high-performance Domain workstation systems in the 1980s.
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E.
IBM 5151
The IBM 5151 is a monochrome CRT computer monitor introduced in the early 1980s for use with the original IBM Personal Computer.
- 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: CII Honeywell Bull Target entity description: CII Honeywell Bull was a French computer company formed through a partnership involving Compagnie Internationale pour l’Informatique (CII) and Honeywell Bull, known for developing mainframe and minicomputer systems in the 1970s and 1980s.
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A.
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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B.
Honeywell DDP-516 minicomputer
The Honeywell DDP-516 minicomputer was a rugged, 16-bit computer from the 1960s widely used in real-time and military applications, notably serving as the hardware platform for the original ARPANET Interface Message Processors.
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C.
Prime Computer
Prime Computer was a U.S. minicomputer manufacturer prominent in the 1970s and 1980s, known for its PRIMOS operating system and 16-bit and 32-bit business systems.
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D.
Apollo Computer
Apollo Computer was an American computer company best known for pioneering high-performance Domain workstation systems in the 1980s.
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E.
IBM 5151
The IBM 5151 is a monochrome CRT computer monitor introduced in the early 1980s for use with the original IBM Personal Computer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French company
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computer company ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1970s
ⓘ
1980s ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Bull (company) ⓘ |
| businessModel | enterprise computing solutions ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| customerType |
government organizations
ⓘ
large enterprises ⓘ |
| focus |
development of mainframe systems
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development of minicomputer systems ⓘ |
| formedBy |
Compagnie Internationale pour l’Informatique
ⓘ
Honeywell Bull ⓘ
linked to:
CII Honeywell Bull
|
| industry |
computer industry
ⓘ
information technology ⓘ |
| notableFor |
French mainframe development
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collaboration between French and American computing firms ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Honeywell (historical association)
ⓘ
linked to:
Honeywell
|
| partnershipType | joint venture ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Compagnie Internationale pour l’Informatique
ⓘ
Honeywell Bull ⓘ
linked to:
CII Honeywell Bull
|
| productType |
mainframe computers
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minicomputers ⓘ |
| regionServed | Europe ⓘ |
| technologyDomain |
computer hardware
ⓘ
computer systems ⓘ |
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: CII Honeywell Bull Description of subject: CII Honeywell Bull was a French computer company formed through a partnership involving Compagnie Internationale pour l’Informatique (CII) and Honeywell Bull, known for developing mainframe and minicomputer systems in the 1970s and 1980s.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: CII Honeywell Bull
linked to: CII Honeywell Bull