Oberon
E14342
compiled programming language
imperative programming language
modular programming language
procedural programming language
programming language
statically typed programming language
strongly typed programming language
systems programming language
Oberon is a modular, type-safe systems programming language designed by Niklaus Wirth as a streamlined successor to Pascal and Modula-2, emphasizing simplicity and efficiency.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oberon canonical | 8 |
| Oberon system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T95831 — 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: Oberon Context triple: [Pascal, influenced, Oberon]
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A.
Alcyone
Alcyone is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of the Titan Atlas and often associated with the star cluster of the same name.
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B.
Sterope
Sterope is a figure from Greek mythology, traditionally considered one of the Pleiades and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
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C.
Merope
Merope is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of Atlas and Pleione who became a star in the constellation Taurus.
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D.
Maia
Maia is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Pleiades and the mother of the god Hermes.
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E.
Celaeno
Celaeno is one of the Pleiad nymphs in Greek mythology, a daughter of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione.
- 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: Oberon Target entity description: Oberon is a modular, type-safe systems programming language designed by Niklaus Wirth as a streamlined successor to Pascal and Modula-2, emphasizing simplicity and efficiency.
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A.
Alcyone
Alcyone is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of the Titan Atlas and often associated with the star cluster of the same name.
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B.
Sterope
Sterope is a figure from Greek mythology, traditionally considered one of the Pleiades and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
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C.
Merope
Merope is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of Atlas and Pleione who became a star in the constellation Taurus.
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D.
Maia
Maia is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Pleiades and the mother of the god Hermes.
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E.
Celaeno
Celaeno is one of the Pleiad nymphs in Greek mythology, a daughter of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
compiled programming language
ⓘ
imperative programming language ⓘ modular programming language ⓘ procedural programming language ⓘ programming language ⓘ statically typed programming language ⓘ strongly typed programming language ⓘ systems programming language ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Switzerland ⓘ |
| designedBy | Niklaus Wirth ⓘ |
| designGoal |
efficiency
ⓘ
readability ⓘ reliability ⓘ simplicity ⓘ |
| developer | ETH Zurich ⓘ |
| doesNotSupport |
inheritance
ⓘ
operator overloading ⓘ pointer arithmetic ⓘ |
| firstAppeared | late 1980s ⓘ |
| firstAppearedAt | ETH Zurich ⓘ |
| hasKeyword |
ARRAY
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BEGIN ⓘ END ⓘ FOR ⓘ IF ⓘ IMPORT ⓘ MODULE ⓘ POINTER ⓘ PROCEDURE ⓘ RECORD ⓘ TYPE ⓘ VAR ⓘ WHILE ⓘ |
| influenced |
Component Pascal
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Lagoona ⓘ Oberon-2 ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Mesa
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Modula-2 ⓘ Pascal ⓘ |
| paradigm |
modular
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procedural ⓘ |
| partOf |
Oberon
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Oberon system
|
| successorTo |
Modula-2
ⓘ
Pascal ⓘ |
| supports |
dynamic arrays
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garbage collection ⓘ modules ⓘ procedures as parameters ⓘ records ⓘ separate compilation ⓘ type extension ⓘ type-safe systems programming ⓘ |
| typingDiscipline |
static
ⓘ
strong ⓘ |
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: Oberon Description of subject: Oberon is a modular, type-safe systems programming language designed by Niklaus Wirth as a streamlined successor to Pascal and Modula-2, emphasizing simplicity and efficiency.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.