LaTeX
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LaTeX is a widely used, high-quality typesetting system particularly popular in academia for producing technical and scientific documents with precise control over layout and mathematical notation.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| LaTeX canonical | 31 |
| LaTeX document preparation system | 2 |
| LaTeX2e | 2 |
| "LaTeX: A Document Preparation System" | 1 |
| LaTeX Project | 1 |
| LaTeX typesetting system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T477710 — 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: LaTeX Context triple: [GNU Emacs, supportsLanguage, LaTeX]
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A.
PostScript
PostScript is a page description and programming language widely used in desktop publishing and printing to precisely define the layout and appearance of text and graphics.
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B.
DocBook
DocBook is a semantic markup language, originally based on SGML and now commonly used in XML form, designed for authoring and publishing technical documentation and books in a platform-independent way.
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C.
MathML
MathML is an XML-based markup language designed to represent and structure mathematical notation for display and processing on the web.
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D.
DSSSL
DSSSL (Document Style Semantics and Specification Language) is an ISO standard language used to define stylesheets and transformations for SGML documents, particularly in technical publishing.
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E.
Word
Word is Microsoft’s widely used word processing application for creating, editing, and formatting text documents.
- 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: LaTeX Target entity description: LaTeX is a widely used, high-quality typesetting system particularly popular in academia for producing technical and scientific documents with precise control over layout and mathematical notation.
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A.
PostScript
PostScript is a page description and programming language widely used in desktop publishing and printing to precisely define the layout and appearance of text and graphics.
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B.
DocBook
DocBook is a semantic markup language, originally based on SGML and now commonly used in XML form, designed for authoring and publishing technical documentation and books in a platform-independent way.
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C.
MathML
MathML is an XML-based markup language designed to represent and structure mathematical notation for display and processing on the web.
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D.
DSSSL
DSSSL (Document Style Semantics and Specification Language) is an ISO standard language used to define stylesheets and transformations for SGML documents, particularly in technical publishing.
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E.
Word
Word is Microsoft’s widely used word processing application for creating, editing, and formatting text documents.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (90)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
document preparation system
ⓘ
markup language ⓘ typesetting system ⓘ |
| basedOn |
TeX typesetting system
ⓘ
surface form:
TeX
|
| canUseEngine |
LuaTeX
ⓘ
XeTeX ⓘ e-TeX ⓘ pTeX ⓘ upTeX ⓘ |
| creator | Leslie Lamport ⓘ |
| defaultEngine | pdfTeX ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
TeX typesetting system
ⓘ
surface form:
plain TeX
|
| documentation |
LaTeX Companion
ⓘ
LaTeX User’s Guide and Reference Manual ⓘ |
| fileExtension | .tex ⓘ |
| hasDistribution |
MacTeX
ⓘ
MiKTeX ⓘ TeX Live ⓘ |
| hasDocumentClass |
article
ⓘ
beamer ⓘ book ⓘ letter ⓘ report ⓘ |
| hasEditor |
GNU Emacs
ⓘ
surface form:
AUCTeX
Kile ⓘ LyX ⓘ Overleaf ⓘ TeXstudio ⓘ TeXworks ⓘ WinEdt ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
automatic numbering of equations
ⓘ
automatic numbering of figures ⓘ automatic numbering of sections ⓘ automatic numbering of tables ⓘ custom document classes ⓘ custom packages ⓘ macro definitions ⓘ style separation from content ⓘ |
| hasLogo | stylized LaTeX wordmark ⓘ |
| hasPackage |
amsmath
ⓘ
amssymb ⓘ biblatex ⓘ geometry ⓘ graphicx ⓘ hyperref ⓘ natbib ⓘ pgfplots ⓘ siunitx ⓘ tikz ⓘ |
| hasPackageSystem | LaTeX packages ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
LaTeX
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
LaTeX2e
LaTeX3 ⓘ |
| initialReleaseYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| inputEncoding | UTF-8 ⓘ |
| isCrossPlatform | true ⓘ |
| isFreeSoftware | true ⓘ |
| license | LaTeX Project Public License ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
LaTeX
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
LaTeX Project
|
| popularIn |
computer science
ⓘ
economics ⓘ engineering ⓘ linguistics ⓘ mathematics ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| primaryDomain |
academic publishing
ⓘ
scientific publishing ⓘ technical documentation ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | TeX macro language ⓘ |
| supports |
DVI output
ⓘ
PDF output ⓘ PostScript output ⓘ bibliographies ⓘ cross-references ⓘ figures ⓘ floats ⓘ glossaries ⓘ indexes ⓘ mathematical typesetting ⓘ multi-language documents ⓘ tables ⓘ |
| typicalOutputExtension |
.dvi
ⓘ
.pdf ⓘ .ps ⓘ |
| usedFor |
books
ⓘ
presentations ⓘ research papers ⓘ technical reports ⓘ theses ⓘ |
| website | https://www.latex-project.org/ ⓘ |
| writtenIn | plain text ⓘ |
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: LaTeX Description of subject: LaTeX is a widely used, high-quality typesetting system particularly popular in academia for producing technical and scientific documents with precise control over layout and mathematical notation.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
LaTeX document preparation system
this entity surface form:
LaTeX document preparation system
this entity surface form:
"LaTeX: A Document Preparation System"
subject surface form:
TeX
subject surface form:
TeX
this entity surface form:
LaTeX Project
this entity surface form:
LaTeX2e
this entity surface form:
LaTeX2e
this entity surface form:
LaTeX typesetting system
subject surface form:
Beamer
subject surface form:
The LaTeX Companion