ALGOL 60
E11138
high-level programming language
imperative programming language
procedural programming language
programming language
ALGOL 60 is an early high-level programming language that pioneered block structure and lexical scoping, profoundly influencing the design of many later languages.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ALGOL 60 canonical | 22 |
| ALGOL 60 report | 2 |
| Algorithmic Language 1960 | 2 |
| ALGOL | 1 |
| ALGOL 60 language specification | 1 |
| Algol 60 | 1 |
| Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T95828 — 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: ALGOL 60 Context triple: [Pascal, influencedBy, ALGOL 60]
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A.
ALGOL W
ALGOL W is an early procedural programming language developed in the 1960s as a successor to ALGOL 60, notable for introducing features that strongly influenced the design of Pascal.
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B.
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.
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C.
Ada (programming language)
Ada is a statically typed, high-level programming language designed with strong support for reliability, safety, and real-time systems, widely used in mission-critical and embedded applications such as aerospace and defense.
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D.
Turing machine
A Turing machine is an abstract computational model that manipulates symbols on an infinite tape according to a set of rules, providing a formal foundation for the concept of algorithm and computability.
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E.
Honeywell DDP-516 minicomputer
The Honeywell DDP-516 minicomputer was a rugged, 16-bit computer from the 1960s widely used in real-time and military applications, notably serving as the hardware platform for the original ARPANET Interface Message Processors.
- 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: ALGOL 60 Target entity description: ALGOL 60 is an early high-level programming language that pioneered block structure and lexical scoping, profoundly influencing the design of many later languages.
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A.
ALGOL W
ALGOL W is an early procedural programming language developed in the 1960s as a successor to ALGOL 60, notable for introducing features that strongly influenced the design of Pascal.
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B.
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.
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C.
Ada (programming language)
Ada is a statically typed, high-level programming language designed with strong support for reliability, safety, and real-time systems, widely used in mission-critical and embedded applications such as aerospace and defense.
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D.
Turing machine
A Turing machine is an abstract computational model that manipulates symbols on an infinite tape according to a set of rules, providing a formal foundation for the concept of algorithm and computability.
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E.
Honeywell DDP-516 minicomputer
The Honeywell DDP-516 minicomputer was a rugged, 16-bit computer from the 1960s widely used in real-time and military applications, notably serving as the hardware platform for the original ARPANET Interface Message Processors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
high-level programming language
ⓘ
imperative programming language ⓘ procedural programming language ⓘ programming language ⓘ |
| executionModel | compiled language ⓘ |
| follows | ALGOL 58 ⓘ |
| hadLimitedAdoptionIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hadStrongerAdoptionIn | Europe ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
arrays
ⓘ
begin-end blocks ⓘ block-structured control flow ⓘ boolean data type ⓘ for loops ⓘ if then else ⓘ integer data type ⓘ pass-by-name parameters ⓘ pass-by-value parameters ⓘ real data type ⓘ recursive procedures ⓘ |
| hasFullName |
ALGOL 60
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Algorithmic Language 1960
|
| hasInfluenceOn | design of modern programming languages ⓘ |
| hasScopeRule | lexical scope ⓘ |
| hasSyntaxDescription | Backus–Naur Form ⓘ |
| influenced |
Ada (programming language)
ⓘ
surface form:
Ada
Algol 68 ⓘ Algol W ⓘ B ⓘ BCPL ⓘ C ⓘ C++ ⓘ Java ⓘ Many later programming languages ⓘ PL/I ⓘ Pascal ⓘ Simula ⓘ |
| introducedConcept |
block structure
ⓘ
call-by-name parameter passing ⓘ call-by-value parameter passing ⓘ lexical scoping ⓘ nested function definitions ⓘ structured programming constructs ⓘ |
| isSuccessorOf | ALGOL 58 ⓘ |
| notableImplementation |
Burroughs B5000 ALGOL compiler
ⓘ
IBM 7090 ALGOL compiler ⓘ |
| paradigm | structured programming ⓘ |
| primaryDomain |
numerical analysis
ⓘ
scientific computing ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfStandard | 1963 ⓘ |
| shortNameOf |
ALGOL 60
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Algorithmic Language 1960
|
| standardDocument |
ALGOL 60
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60
|
| wasDescribedUsing | Backus–Naur Form ⓘ |
| wasDesignedBy |
Adriaan van Wijngaarden
ⓘ
Alan Perlis ⓘ
surface form:
Alan J. Perlis
Friedrich L. Bauer ⓘ Heinz Rutishauser ⓘ John Backus ⓘ Klaus Samelson ⓘ Peter Naur ⓘ |
| wasLessUsedIn | commercial data processing ⓘ |
| wasPrecededBy | ALGOL 58 ⓘ |
| wasStandardizedBy | IFIP Working Group 2.1 ⓘ |
| wasWidelyUsedIn | 1960s ⓘ |
| yearIntroduced | 1960 ⓘ |
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: ALGOL 60 Description of subject: ALGOL 60 is an early high-level programming language that pioneered block structure and lexical scoping, profoundly influencing the design of many later languages.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ALGOL
this entity surface form:
Algorithmic Language 1960
this entity surface form:
Algorithmic Language 1960
this entity surface form:
Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60
this entity surface form:
Algol 60
this entity surface form:
ALGOL 60 language specification
this entity surface form:
ALGOL 60 report
this entity surface form:
ALGOL 60 report
subject surface form:
Niklaus Wirth