Perl
E95185
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.
All labels observed (15)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Perl canonical | 52 |
| Perl 5 | 4 |
| Perl programming language | 3 |
| CPAN ecosystem | 1 |
| PL/Perl | 1 |
| Perl (programming language) | 1 |
| Perl (via interface) | 1 |
| Perl 4 | 1 |
| Perl 6 | 1 |
| Perl interpreter | 1 |
| Perl language design | 1 |
| Perl language reference | 1 |
| Perl programming | 1 |
| Perl syntax | 1 |
| PerlScript | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T805102 — 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 Context triple: [Codex, supportsLanguage, Perl]
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A.
PDL
PDL is a former name for USL League Two, a North American pre-professional soccer league that serves as a key development platform for college-aged and aspiring professional players.
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B.
PyPy
PyPy is a high-performance alternative Python interpreter featuring a Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler designed to significantly speed up the execution of Python programs.
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C.
Python
Python is a monstrous serpent or dragon from Greek mythology, best known for being slain by the god Apollo at Delphi.
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D.
Python
Python is a high-level, versatile programming language widely used for data analysis, machine learning, web development, and automation.
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E.
Ruby
Ruby is a dynamic, object-oriented programming language known for its elegant syntax and its use in the Ruby on Rails web framework.
- 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 Target entity description: 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.
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A.
PDL
PDL is a former name for USL League Two, a North American pre-professional soccer league that serves as a key development platform for college-aged and aspiring professional players.
-
B.
PyPy
PyPy is a high-performance alternative Python interpreter featuring a Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler designed to significantly speed up the execution of Python programs.
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C.
Python
Python is a monstrous serpent or dragon from Greek mythology, best known for being slain by the god Apollo at Delphi.
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D.
Python
Python is a high-level, versatile programming language widely used for data analysis, machine learning, web development, and automation.
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E.
Ruby
Ruby is a dynamic, object-oriented programming language known for its elegant syntax and its use in the Ruby on Rails web framework.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
general-purpose programming language
ⓘ
high-level programming language ⓘ programming language ⓘ |
| abbreviation | Practical Extraction and Report Language ⓘ |
| designedBy | Larry Wall ⓘ |
| executionModel | interpreted ⓘ |
| fileExtension |
.pl
ⓘ
.pm ⓘ .t ⓘ |
| firstAppeared | 1987 ⓘ |
| hasCommunity | Perl Mongers ⓘ |
| hasImplementation | perl interpreter ⓘ |
| hasMajorVersion |
Perl
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Perl 4
Perl self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Perl 5
Perl self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Perl 6
Raku ⓘ |
| influenced |
JavaScript
ⓘ
PHP ⓘ Python ⓘ Raku ⓘ Ruby ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
C
ⓘ
Lisp programming language ⓘ
surface form:
Lisp
awk ⓘ GNU Sed ⓘ
surface form:
sed
shell script ⓘ |
| latestMajorBranch |
Perl
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Perl 5
|
| license |
Artistic License 2.0
ⓘ
surface form:
Artistic License
GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
comprehensive CPAN library
ⓘ
powerful text-processing capabilities ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | cross-platform ⓘ |
| paradigm |
functional programming
ⓘ
imperative programming ⓘ object-oriented programming ⓘ scripting ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
bioinformatics
ⓘ
network programming ⓘ scripting ⓘ system administration ⓘ text processing ⓘ web development ⓘ |
| standardPackageRepository | CPAN ⓘ |
| supports |
Unicode
ⓘ
modules ⓘ object-oriented programming ⓘ regular expressions ⓘ |
| tagline | There is more than one way to do it ⓘ |
| typingDiscipline |
duck typing
ⓘ
dynamic typing ⓘ |
| website | https://www.perl.org/ ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (71)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
PL/Perl
this entity surface form:
CPAN ecosystem
this entity surface form:
Perl 4
this entity surface form:
Perl 5
this entity surface form:
Perl 6
this entity surface form:
Perl 5
this entity surface form:
Perl 5
subject surface form:
Ward Cunningham
subject surface form:
GTK
subject surface form:
Active Server Pages
this entity surface form:
PerlScript
this entity surface form:
Perl (programming language)
this entity surface form:
Perl programming