"Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns"
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"Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns" is a highly regarded software engineering book by Kent Beck that distills practical, idiomatic techniques for writing clear, maintainable Smalltalk code.
All labels observed (1)
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| "Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7666416 — 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: "Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns" Context triple: [Kent Beck, hasWritten, "Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns"]
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A.
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software is a seminal software engineering book by the "Gang of Four" that catalogues foundational object-oriented design patterns widely used in software development.
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On to Smalltalk (programming book)
"On to Smalltalk" is a programming book by Patrick Henry Winston that introduces and teaches the Smalltalk language and its object-oriented programming concepts.
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"Apprenticeship Patterns"
"Apprenticeship Patterns" is a software craftsmanship book that offers practical guidance and patterns for developers to grow their skills through apprenticeship-style learning and deliberate practice.
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D.
Squeak programming system
The Squeak programming system is an open-source, multimedia-capable implementation of the Smalltalk language designed for educational use, rapid prototyping, and exploratory programming.
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E.
the book "Apprenticeship Patterns"
"Apprenticeship Patterns" is a practical software craftsmanship book that offers concrete patterns and guidance for developers to deliberately grow their skills and careers through an apprenticeship mindset.
- 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: "Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns" Target entity description: "Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns" is a highly regarded software engineering book by Kent Beck that distills practical, idiomatic techniques for writing clear, maintainable Smalltalk code.
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A.
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software is a seminal software engineering book by the "Gang of Four" that catalogues foundational object-oriented design patterns widely used in software development.
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B.
On to Smalltalk (programming book)
"On to Smalltalk" is a programming book by Patrick Henry Winston that introduces and teaches the Smalltalk language and its object-oriented programming concepts.
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C.
"Apprenticeship Patterns"
"Apprenticeship Patterns" is a software craftsmanship book that offers practical guidance and patterns for developers to grow their skills through apprenticeship-style learning and deliberate practice.
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D.
Squeak programming system
The Squeak programming system is an open-source, multimedia-capable implementation of the Smalltalk language designed for educational use, rapid prototyping, and exploratory programming.
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E.
the book "Apprenticeship Patterns"
"Apprenticeship Patterns" is a practical software craftsmanship book that offers concrete patterns and guidance for developers to deliberately grow their skills and careers through an apprenticeship mindset.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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software engineering book ⓘ |
| approach |
example-driven
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experience-based ⓘ pattern-based ⓘ |
| audience |
Smalltalk programmers
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object-oriented designers ⓘ software developers ⓘ |
| author | Kent Beck ⓘ |
| contains |
class-level patterns
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method-level patterns ⓘ state and behavior patterns ⓘ testing-related patterns ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
communication through code
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incremental improvement ⓘ local reasoning about code ⓘ simple design ⓘ |
| focus |
clear code
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idiomatic Smalltalk code ⓘ maintainable code ⓘ practical techniques ⓘ |
| goal |
improve code maintainability
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improve code readability ⓘ improve developer productivity ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
classic in software engineering literature
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highly regarded in Smalltalk community ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Smalltalk community practices ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| philosophy |
continuous refactoring
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patterns as vocabulary for design ⓘ small patterns over big frameworks ⓘ |
| programmingLanguageFocus | Smalltalk ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code ⓘ |
| subject |
best practices
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coding style ⓘ design patterns ⓘ object-oriented programming ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| targetEcosystem | Smalltalk development environments ⓘ |
| teaches |
class design
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coding patterns ⓘ method organization ⓘ naming conventions ⓘ refactoring techniques ⓘ |
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: "Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns" Description of subject: "Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns" is a highly regarded software engineering book by Kent Beck that distills practical, idiomatic techniques for writing clear, maintainable Smalltalk code.
Referenced by (1)
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