Perl documentation
E887838
Perl documentation is the official set of reference manuals, tutorials, and guides that explain the Perl programming language’s syntax, features, and best practices.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Perl documentation canonical | 5 |
| Perl 5 core documentation | 1 |
| Perl FAQ | 1 |
| Perl core documentation | 1 |
| perlapi | 1 |
| perlfaq | 1 |
| perlre | 1 |
| perlrun | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10826610 — 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: Perl documentation Context triple: [TIMTOWTDI, appearsIn, Perl documentation]
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A.
Python official documentation
Python official documentation is the authoritative online reference and user guide for the Python programming language, covering its syntax, standard library, and best practices.
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B.
Programming Perl
Programming Perl is a comprehensive reference and tutorial book on the Perl programming language, co-authored by its creator Larry Wall and often regarded as the definitive guide for Perl programmers.
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C.
RDoc
RDoc is a Ruby documentation generation tool that produces formatted API and project documentation from specially structured comments in source code.
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D.
PHP documentation team
The PHP documentation team is a group of contributors responsible for writing, maintaining, and improving the official documentation for the PHP programming language.
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E.
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose programming language known for its powerful text-processing capabilities and use in system administration, web development, and scripting.
- 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: Perl documentation Target entity description: Perl documentation is the official set of reference manuals, tutorials, and guides that explain the Perl programming language’s syntax, features, and best practices.
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A.
Python official documentation
Python official documentation is the authoritative online reference and user guide for the Python programming language, covering its syntax, standard library, and best practices.
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B.
Programming Perl
Programming Perl is a comprehensive reference and tutorial book on the Perl programming language, co-authored by its creator Larry Wall and often regarded as the definitive guide for Perl programmers.
-
C.
RDoc
RDoc is a Ruby documentation generation tool that produces formatted API and project documentation from specially structured comments in source code.
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D.
PHP documentation team
The PHP documentation team is a group of contributors responsible for writing, maintaining, and improving the official documentation for the PHP programming language.
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E.
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose programming language known for its powerful text-processing capabilities and use in system administration, web development, and scripting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
programming language documentation
ⓘ
software documentation ⓘ |
| accessMethod |
command-line perldoc tool
ⓘ
man pages ⓘ online HTML pages ⓘ |
| associatedWithProject |
Perl programming language
ⓘ
linked to:
Perl
|
| covers |
Unicode handling
ⓘ
best practices ⓘ built-in functions ⓘ modules ⓘ object-oriented programming ⓘ portability issues ⓘ regular expressions ⓘ security considerations ⓘ syntax ⓘ |
| describes | Perl ⓘ |
| distributedWith |
Perl interpreter
ⓘ
linked to:
Perl
|
| format |
POD
ⓘ
Plain Old Documentation ⓘ |
| includes |
perlapi
ⓘ
linked to:
Perl documentation
perldoc ⓘ perlfaq ⓘ
linked to:
Perl documentation
perlfaq1 ⓘ perlfaq2 ⓘ perlfaq3 ⓘ perlfaq4 ⓘ perlfaq5 ⓘ perlfaq6 ⓘ perlfaq7 ⓘ perlfaq8 ⓘ perlfaq9 ⓘ perlfunc ⓘ perlguts ⓘ perlintro ⓘ
linked to:
Perl
perlmod ⓘ perlobj ⓘ perlop ⓘ perlpod ⓘ perlport ⓘ perlre ⓘ
linked to:
Perl documentation
perlrun ⓘ
linked to:
Perl documentation
perlsec ⓘ perlstyle ⓘ perlsub ⓘ perlsyn ⓘ perltoc ⓘ perlunicode ⓘ perlvar ⓘ perlxs ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| license | same as Perl itself ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Perl 5 Porters
ⓘ
linked to:
Perl 5 porters
Perl community ⓘ |
| officialWebsite | https://perldoc.perl.org/ ⓘ |
| partOf |
Perl distribution
ⓘ
linked to:
CPAN
|
| primaryAudience |
Perl programmers
ⓘ
software developers ⓘ |
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: Perl documentation Description of subject: Perl documentation is the official set of reference manuals, tutorials, and guides that explain the Perl programming language’s syntax, features, and best practices.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Perl documentation
linked to: Perl documentation
linked to: Perl documentation
linked to: Perl documentation
linked to: Perl documentation
linked to: Perl documentation
linked to: Perl documentation