Lisp programming language
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functional programming language
high-level programming language
multi-paradigm programming language
programming language
Lisp is a pioneering high-level programming language, especially influential in artificial intelligence research and known for its symbolic processing and distinctive parenthesized syntax.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lisp | 34 |
| LISP | 4 |
| Lisp programming language canonical | 2 |
| "LISt Processor" | 1 |
| Clojure | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T799253 — 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: Lisp programming language Context triple: [John McCarthy, notableWork, Lisp programming language]
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A.
Scheme
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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B.
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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C.
GNU Guile
GNU Guile is the official extension language platform of the GNU Project, providing a Scheme-based scripting and programming environment for extending and customizing applications.
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D.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is a seminal computer science textbook by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman that uses the Scheme language to teach fundamental principles of programming and software design.
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E.
ABC programming language
ABC is an early high-level, interactive programming language developed at CWI that emphasized readability and simplicity, and later influenced the design of Python.
- 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: Lisp programming language Target entity description: Lisp is a pioneering high-level programming language, especially influential in artificial intelligence research and known for its symbolic processing and distinctive parenthesized syntax.
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A.
Scheme
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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B.
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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C.
GNU Guile
GNU Guile is the official extension language platform of the GNU Project, providing a Scheme-based scripting and programming environment for extending and customizing applications.
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D.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is a seminal computer science textbook by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman that uses the Scheme language to teach fundamental principles of programming and software design.
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E.
ABC programming language
ABC is an early high-level, interactive programming language developed at CWI that emphasized readability and simplicity, and later influenced the design of Python.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
functional programming language
ⓘ
high-level programming language ⓘ multi-paradigm programming language ⓘ programming language ⓘ |
| designedBy | John McCarthy ⓘ |
| designedFor |
list processing
ⓘ
symbolic manipulation ⓘ |
| developedAt | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| domain |
artificial intelligence
ⓘ
symbolic computation ⓘ |
| executionModel |
compiled
ⓘ
interpreted ⓘ |
| firstAppeared | 1958 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
S-expressions
ⓘ
parenthesized syntax ⓘ prefix notation ⓘ read–eval–print loop ⓘ |
| hasSyntax | S-expression-based syntax ⓘ |
| influenced |
Arc
ⓘ
Clojure ⓘ Common Lisp ⓘ Bob Dylan ⓘ
surface form:
Dylan
Emacs Lisp (for GNU Emacs environment) ⓘ
surface form:
Emacs Lisp
JavaScript ⓘ Julia ⓘ Logo ⓘ NewLISP ⓘ Racket ⓘ Scheme ⓘ Smalltalk ⓘ |
| influencedBy | lambda calculus ⓘ |
| nameDerivedFrom |
Lisp programming language
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
"LISt Processor"
|
| notableFor |
macro system
ⓘ
minimal core language with powerful extensions ⓘ |
| notableImplementation |
AutoLISP
ⓘ
Clojure ⓘ Common Lisp ⓘ Emacs Lisp (for GNU Emacs environment) ⓘ
surface form:
Emacs Lisp
Scheme ⓘ |
| paradigm |
functional programming
ⓘ
meta-programming ⓘ procedural programming ⓘ symbolic programming ⓘ |
| standardizedAs | Common Lisp ⓘ |
| supports |
automatic garbage collection
ⓘ
first-class functions ⓘ higher-order functions ⓘ homoiconicity ⓘ macros ⓘ recursion ⓘ |
| typingDiscipline | dynamic typing ⓘ |
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: Lisp programming language Description of subject: Lisp is a pioneering high-level programming language, especially influential in artificial intelligence research and known for its symbolic processing and distinctive parenthesized syntax.
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