Scratch Team
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Scratch Team is the official group responsible for developing and maintaining the Scratch programming platform and its related tools and extensions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scratch Team canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T314964 — 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: Scratch Team Context triple: [Makey Makey extension, developer, Scratch Team]
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A.
Scratch Foundation
The Scratch Foundation is the nonprofit organization that supports and advances the Scratch programming language and its global educational community.
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B.
ScratchJr
ScratchJr is a simplified, block-based visual programming language and app designed to introduce young children to coding and computational thinking through interactive stories and games.
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C.
Scratch programming language
Scratch programming language is a visual, block-based coding environment designed primarily for children and beginners to learn programming concepts through creating interactive stories, games, and animations.
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D.
Mitchel Resnick
Mitchel Resnick is an American educator and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in constructionist learning and for leading the development of the Scratch programming language for children.
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E.
Walter Bender
Walter Bender is an American software engineer and open-source advocate best known for his leadership in educational technology initiatives, including co-founding the One Laptop per Child project and developing child-focused learning software.
- 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: Scratch Team Target entity description: Scratch Team is the official group responsible for developing and maintaining the Scratch programming platform and its related tools and extensions.
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A.
Scratch Foundation
The Scratch Foundation is the nonprofit organization that supports and advances the Scratch programming language and its global educational community.
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B.
ScratchJr
ScratchJr is a simplified, block-based visual programming language and app designed to introduce young children to coding and computational thinking through interactive stories and games.
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C.
Scratch programming language
Scratch programming language is a visual, block-based coding environment designed primarily for children and beginners to learn programming concepts through creating interactive stories, games, and animations.
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D.
Mitchel Resnick
Mitchel Resnick is an American educator and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in constructionist learning and for leading the development of the Scratch programming language for children.
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E.
Walter Bender
Walter Bender is an American software engineer and open-source advocate best known for his leadership in educational technology initiatives, including co-founding the One Laptop per Child project and developing child-focused learning software.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
organizational unit
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software development team ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Scratch Foundation ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
maintain a safe online community for children
ⓘ
support creative learning with coding ⓘ |
| basedIn | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
educators worldwide
ⓘ
researchers in computing education ⓘ |
| coordinatesWith | volunteer Scratch translators ⓘ |
| creates |
official Scratch example projects
ⓘ
official Scratch news posts ⓘ official Scratch tutorials ⓘ |
| develops |
Scratch extensions for hardware devices
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Scratch extensions for web services ⓘ |
| employs |
Scratch developers
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community moderators ⓘ designers ⓘ educational researchers ⓘ |
| foundedFor | supporting the Scratch project ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maintains | Scratch localization framework ⓘ |
| manages |
Scratch bug tracking and issue resolution
ⓘ
Scratch user data infrastructure ⓘ |
| operatesOn | scratch.mit.edu ⓘ |
| oversees |
Scratch cloud data features
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Scratch community guidelines ⓘ Scratch messaging system ⓘ Scratch studio features ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
Scratch account management policies
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Scratch content guidelines enforcement ⓘ Scratch extensions ⓘ Scratch online community platform ⓘ Scratch website infrastructure ⓘ Scratch-related tools ⓘ design of Scratch features ⓘ development of the Scratch programming platform ⓘ maintenance of the Scratch programming platform ⓘ moderation of the Scratch online community ⓘ |
| supports |
Scratch educators
ⓘ
Scratch learners ⓘ |
| uses | block-based programming concepts ⓘ |
| worksOn |
scratch.mit.edu
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surface form:
Scratch 3.0 platform
Scratch API ⓘ Scratch programming language ⓘ
surface form:
Scratch blocks
Scratch programming language ⓘ
surface form:
Scratch editor
Scratch programming language ⓘ
surface form:
Scratch website
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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: Scratch Team Description of subject: Scratch Team is the official group responsible for developing and maintaining the Scratch programming platform and its related tools and extensions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.