Scheme
E24474
Scheme is a minimalist, lexically scoped dialect of the Lisp programming language known for its elegant functional programming model and powerful macro system.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scheme canonical | 34 |
| Scheme programming language | 6 |
| Chibi Scheme | 1 |
| R5RS | 1 |
| Scheme Language Steering Committee | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T192110 — 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: Scheme Context triple: [JavaScript, influencedBy, Scheme]
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A.
Emacs Lisp (for GNU Emacs environment)
Emacs Lisp is a dialect of the Lisp programming language used as the extension and scripting language of the GNU Emacs text editor.
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B.
Julia
Julia is a high-level, high-performance programming language designed for numerical computing, data science, and scientific research, combining the ease of dynamic languages with the speed of compiled languages.
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C.
CoffeeScript
CoffeeScript is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, offering a more concise, Python- and Ruby-like syntax for writing web application code.
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D.
Algol 68
Algol 68 is a high-level, structured programming language from the ALGOL family, notable for its orthogonal design and influence on many later languages.
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E.
Ada (programming language)
Ada is a statically typed, high-level programming language designed with strong support for reliability, safety, and real-time systems, widely used in mission-critical and embedded applications such as aerospace and defense.
- 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: Scheme Target entity description: Scheme is a minimalist, lexically scoped dialect of the Lisp programming language known for its elegant functional programming model and powerful macro system.
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A.
Emacs Lisp (for GNU Emacs environment)
Emacs Lisp is a dialect of the Lisp programming language used as the extension and scripting language of the GNU Emacs text editor.
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B.
Julia
Julia is a high-level, high-performance programming language designed for numerical computing, data science, and scientific research, combining the ease of dynamic languages with the speed of compiled languages.
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C.
CoffeeScript
CoffeeScript is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, offering a more concise, Python- and Ruby-like syntax for writing web application code.
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D.
Algol 68
Algol 68 is a high-level, structured programming language from the ALGOL family, notable for its orthogonal design and influence on many later languages.
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E.
Ada (programming language)
Ada is a statically typed, high-level programming language designed with strong support for reliability, safety, and real-time systems, widely used in mission-critical and embedded applications such as aerospace and defense.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (67)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Lisp dialect
ⓘ
programming language ⓘ |
| abbreviation | Scheme ⓘ |
| category | high-level programming language ⓘ |
| designedBy |
Gerald Jay Sussman
ⓘ
Guy L. Steele Jr. ⓘ |
| evaluationStrategy | applicative order ⓘ |
| fileExtension |
.scm
ⓘ
.ss ⓘ |
| firstAppearedIn |
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
ⓘ
surface form:
MIT AI Lab
|
| hasFeature |
call-with-current-continuation
ⓘ
continuations ⓘ dynamic typing ⓘ first-class procedures ⓘ garbage collection ⓘ homoiconicity ⓘ hygienic macros ⓘ lexical scoping ⓘ minimal core language ⓘ proper tail recursion ⓘ s-expression syntax ⓘ tail-call optimization requirement ⓘ |
| hasSyntax | prefix notation ⓘ |
| influenced |
Lisp programming language
ⓘ
surface form:
Clojure
Common Lisp ⓘ Bob Dylan ⓘ
surface form:
Dylan
JavaScript ⓘ Lua ⓘ Racket ⓘ Rust macro system ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
ALGOL 58
ⓘ
surface form:
ALGOL
ISWIM ⓘ Lisp programming language ⓘ
surface form:
Lisp
|
| macroSystemType | hygienic macro system ⓘ |
| notableImplementation |
Bigloo
ⓘ
Chez Scheme ⓘ Scheme self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Chibi Scheme
Chicken Scheme ⓘ Gambit Scheme ⓘ GNU Guile ⓘ
surface form:
Guile Scheme
Kawa ⓘ MIT Scheme ⓘ Racket ⓘ Scheme48 ⓘ TinyScheme ⓘ |
| notableTextbook | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs ⓘ |
| paradigm |
functional programming
ⓘ
imperative programming ⓘ meta-programming ⓘ |
| scopeType | lexical scope ⓘ |
| standardBody |
Scheme
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Scheme Language Steering Committee
|
| standardizedBy | Revised^n Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme ⓘ |
| standardVersion |
Scheme
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
R5RS
Revised^n Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme ⓘ
surface form:
R6RS
Revised^n Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme ⓘ
surface form:
R7RS-small
|
| supports |
closures
ⓘ
first-class continuations ⓘ higher-order functions ⓘ macro system ⓘ recursion ⓘ tail-recursive style ⓘ |
| typingDiscipline | dynamic typing ⓘ |
| usedFor |
computer science education
ⓘ
embedded systems ⓘ language research ⓘ scripting ⓘ |
| yearIntroduced | 1975 ⓘ |
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: Scheme Description of subject: Scheme is a minimalist, lexically scoped dialect of the Lisp programming language known for its elegant functional programming model and powerful macro system.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
R5RS
this entity surface form:
Scheme Language Steering Committee
this entity surface form:
Chibi Scheme
subject surface form:
Lisp
subject surface form:
Lisp
this entity surface form:
Scheme programming language
this entity surface form:
Scheme programming language
this entity surface form:
Scheme programming language
this entity surface form:
Scheme programming language
subject surface form:
Hal Abelson
this entity surface form:
Scheme programming language
subject surface form:
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
this entity surface form:
Scheme programming language