ALGOL 58
E129067
high-level programming language
imperative programming language
procedural programming language
programming language
ALGOL 58 is an early high-level programming language that pioneered many structured programming concepts and directly influenced the design of ALGOL 60 and numerous later languages.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ALGOL 58 canonical | 6 |
| ALGOL | 1 |
| ALGOL X | 1 |
| International Algebraic Language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1117698 — 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 58 Context triple: [ALGOL 60, follows, ALGOL 58]
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A.
ALGOL 60
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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B.
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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C.
Algol 68
Algol 68 is a high-level, structured programming language from the ALGOL family, notable for its orthogonal design and influence on many later languages.
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D.
Algol 68S
Algol 68S is a simplified subset of the Algol 68 programming language designed to make the language easier to implement and use.
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E.
Algol 68C
Algol 68C is a compiler implementation of the Algol 68 programming language, designed to translate its advanced structured constructs into executable machine code.
- 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 58 Target entity description: ALGOL 58 is an early high-level programming language that pioneered many structured programming concepts and directly influenced the design of ALGOL 60 and numerous later languages.
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A.
ALGOL 60
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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B.
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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C.
Algol 68
Algol 68 is a high-level, structured programming language from the ALGOL family, notable for its orthogonal design and influence on many later languages.
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D.
Algol 68S
Algol 68S is a simplified subset of the Algol 68 programming language designed to make the language easier to implement and use.
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E.
Algol 68C
Algol 68C is a compiler implementation of the Algol 68 programming language, designed to translate its advanced structured constructs into executable machine code.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
high-level programming language
ⓘ
imperative programming language ⓘ procedural programming language ⓘ programming language ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
IAL
ⓘ
ALGOL 58 ⓘ
surface form:
International Algebraic Language
|
| committeeMeetingLocation |
Zurich
ⓘ
surface form:
Zürich
|
| committeeMeetingYear | 1958 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
various European countries ⓘ |
| dataType |
Boolean
ⓘ
arrays ⓘ integer ⓘ real ⓘ |
| designCommittee | ACM-GAMM joint committee ⓘ |
| designedBy |
ACM
ⓘ
GAMM ⓘ |
| designedFor | machine-independent algorithm description ⓘ |
| domain |
numerical analysis
ⓘ
scientific computing ⓘ |
| executionModel | compiled language ⓘ |
| goal | to provide a universal language for the description of algorithms ⓘ |
| influenced |
ALGOL 60
ⓘ
ALGOL W ⓘ C ⓘ
surface form:
C programming language
PL/I ⓘ Pascal ⓘ Simula ⓘ many later structured programming languages ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Fortran
ⓘ
mathematical notation ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influencing the design of many later programming languages
ⓘ
pioneering structured programming concepts ⓘ |
| paradigm | structured programming ⓘ |
| predecessor | ALGOL 60 ⓘ |
| standardizedIn | 1958 ⓘ |
| status | historical ⓘ |
| successor | ALGOL 60 ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
block structure
ⓘ
call-by-name parameter passing ⓘ call-by-value parameter passing ⓘ compound statements ⓘ conditional statements ⓘ for loops ⓘ lexical scoping ⓘ nested blocks ⓘ recursive procedures ⓘ |
| yearIntroduced | 1958 ⓘ |
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 58 Description of subject: ALGOL 58 is an early high-level programming language that pioneered many structured programming concepts and directly influenced the design of ALGOL 60 and numerous later languages.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ALGOL
this entity surface form:
International Algebraic Language
this entity surface form:
ALGOL X