Elixir
E96206
concurrent programming language
functional programming language
general-purpose programming language
programming language
Elixir is a functional, concurrent programming language built on the Erlang VM, known for its scalability, fault tolerance, and expressive syntax.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elixir canonical | 23 |
| Elixir programming language | 5 |
| Elixir 1.x series design and evolution | 1 |
| elixir-lang/elixir | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T815664 — 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: Elixir Context triple: [Ruby, influenced, Elixir]
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A.
Elm
Elm is a civil parish and village in Cambridgeshire, England, known for its rural character and historic church.
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B.
Elm
Elm is a statically typed, functional programming language that compiles to JavaScript and is designed for building reliable, maintainable web front-end applications.
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C.
Julia
Julia is a high-level, high-performance programming language designed for numerical computing, data science, and scientific research, combining the ease of dynamic languages with the speed of compiled languages.
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D.
Julia
Julia is a feminine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in many languages and cultures.
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E.
Dart
Dart is a client-optimized, object-oriented programming language developed by Google, primarily used for building web and cross-platform mobile applications (notably with the Flutter 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: Elixir Target entity description: Elixir is a functional, concurrent programming language built on the Erlang VM, known for its scalability, fault tolerance, and expressive syntax.
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A.
Elm
Elm is a civil parish and village in Cambridgeshire, England, known for its rural character and historic church.
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B.
Elm
Elm is a statically typed, functional programming language that compiles to JavaScript and is designed for building reliable, maintainable web front-end applications.
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C.
Julia
Julia is a high-level, high-performance programming language designed for numerical computing, data science, and scientific research, combining the ease of dynamic languages with the speed of compiled languages.
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D.
Julia
Julia is a feminine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in many languages and cultures.
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E.
Dart
Dart is a client-optimized, object-oriented programming language developed by Google, primarily used for building web and cross-platform mobile applications (notably with the Flutter framework).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concurrent programming language
ⓘ
functional programming language ⓘ general-purpose programming language ⓘ programming language ⓘ |
| basedOn | Erlang ⓘ |
| designedBy | José Valim ⓘ |
| developer | Elixir Core Team ⓘ |
| fileExtension |
.ex
ⓘ
.exs ⓘ |
| firstAppeared | 2011 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
OTP integration
ⓘ
Unicode support ⓘ actor model concurrency ⓘ interactive shell IEx ⓘ pipe operator ⓘ protocols for polymorphism ⓘ tooling via Mix ⓘ |
| influenced |
Nerves (embedded framework)
ⓘ
Phoenix (web framework) ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Clojure
ⓘ
Erlang ⓘ Lisp ⓘ
linked to:
Lisp programming language
Ruby ⓘ |
| license | Apache License 2.0 ⓘ |
| notableFramework |
Nerves
ⓘ
Phoenix ⓘ |
| notableUseCase |
distributed systems
ⓘ
fault-tolerant services ⓘ real-time systems ⓘ web applications ⓘ |
| paradigm |
concurrent
ⓘ
distributed ⓘ functional ⓘ metaprogramming ⓘ process-oriented ⓘ |
| platform | cross-platform ⓘ |
| primaryImplementationLanguage | Erlang ⓘ |
| runsOn |
BEAM virtual machine
ⓘ
Erlang VM ⓘ |
| stableRelease | 1.16.x ⓘ |
| supports |
distributed computing
ⓘ
fault tolerance ⓘ hot code swapping ⓘ immutable data ⓘ lightweight processes ⓘ message passing concurrency ⓘ metaprogramming with macros ⓘ pattern matching ⓘ |
| typingDiscipline |
dynamic typing
ⓘ
strong 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: Elixir Description of subject: Elixir is a functional, concurrent programming language built on the Erlang VM, known for its scalability, fault tolerance, and expressive syntax.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Elixir
linked to: Elixir
linked to: Elixir
linked to: Elixir
subject linked to:
Phoenix (web framework)
subject linked to:
Phoenix (web framework)
subject linked to:
Nerves (embedded framework)
subject linked to:
Nerves (embedded framework)
linked to: Elixir
linked to: Elixir
linked to: Elixir
subject linked to:
Ruby programming language