Applesoft BASIC
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Applesoft BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language developed by Apple for the Apple II series, featuring floating-point support and integrated into the system’s ROM and operating environments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Applesoft BASIC canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13498288 — 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: Applesoft BASIC Context triple: [ProDOS, supportsLanguage, Applesoft BASIC]
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A.
Commodore BASIC
Commodore BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language that was built into Commodore's 8-bit home computers and widely used by hobbyists in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
Sinclair BASIC
Sinclair BASIC is a compact, interpreted BASIC programming language developed by Sinclair Research for its home computers, most famously used on the ZX Spectrum.
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C.
Microsoft BASIC
Microsoft BASIC is a family of early, widely distributed implementations of the BASIC programming language created by Microsoft for microcomputers in the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Locomotive BASIC
Locomotive BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language designed for and built into Amstrad home computers, noted for its speed and advanced features for its time.
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E.
Dartmouth BASIC
Dartmouth BASIC is the original implementation of the BASIC programming language, developed at Dartmouth College in the 1960s to make computing more accessible to students and non-specialists.
- 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: Applesoft BASIC Target entity description: Applesoft BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language developed by Apple for the Apple II series, featuring floating-point support and integrated into the system’s ROM and operating environments.
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A.
Commodore BASIC
Commodore BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language that was built into Commodore's 8-bit home computers and widely used by hobbyists in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
Sinclair BASIC
Sinclair BASIC is a compact, interpreted BASIC programming language developed by Sinclair Research for its home computers, most famously used on the ZX Spectrum.
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C.
Microsoft BASIC
Microsoft BASIC is a family of early, widely distributed implementations of the BASIC programming language created by Microsoft for microcomputers in the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Locomotive BASIC
Locomotive BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language designed for and built into Amstrad home computers, noted for its speed and advanced features for its time.
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E.
Dartmouth BASIC
Dartmouth BASIC is the original implementation of the BASIC programming language, developed at Dartmouth College in the 1960s to make computing more accessible to students and non-specialists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple II software
ⓘ
BASIC dialect ⓘ programming language dialect ⓘ |
| basedOn | Microsoft BASIC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer |
Apple Computer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Microsoft ⓘ |
| feature |
CALL machine-language subroutine invocation
ⓘ
DATA and READ statements ⓘ DIM statement for arrays ⓘ FOR-NEXT loops ⓘ GOTO and GOSUB statements ⓘ IF-THEN conditional statements ⓘ ON-GOTO and ON-GOSUB statements ⓘ PEEK and POKE memory access ⓘ RESTORE statement ⓘ RND random number function ⓘ USR user-defined function entry point ⓘ array variables ⓘ built-in integer and floating-point numeric types ⓘ floating-point arithmetic support ⓘ immediate mode execution ⓘ interactive interpreter ⓘ line-numbered program structure ⓘ simple graphics commands on supported Apple II models ⓘ sound generation via PEEK/POKE and CALL to ROM routines ⓘ string variables ⓘ text-mode input and output ⓘ |
| integratedInto |
Apple DOS
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Apple II ROM NERFINISHED ⓘ ProDOS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introduced | late 1970s ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the de facto standard BASIC on most Apple II models
ⓘ
widespread use in schools with Apple II computers ⓘ |
| predecessor | Integer BASIC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| programmingLanguageFamily | BASIC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replaced | Integer BASIC as the standard BASIC on later Apple II models ⓘ |
| storageLocation |
ROM
ⓘ
floppy disk ⓘ |
| supports |
alphanumeric variable names beginning with a letter
ⓘ
floating-point numbers up to approximately 10^38 magnitude ⓘ line numbers from 0 to 63999 ⓘ single-precision floating-point arithmetic ⓘ |
| targetPlatform |
Apple II
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Apple II Plus NERFINISHED ⓘ Apple IIc NERFINISHED ⓘ Apple IIe NERFINISHED ⓘ Apple IIgs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
business applications on Apple II
ⓘ
education ⓘ hobbyist programming ⓘ simple games ⓘ |
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: Applesoft BASIC Description of subject: Applesoft BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language developed by Apple for the Apple II series, featuring floating-point support and integrated into the system’s ROM and operating environments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.