Gambit Scheme
E134962
Gambit Scheme is a high-performance implementation of the Scheme programming language, known for its efficient compiler, support for concurrent and distributed programming, and ability to generate C code for portability.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gambit Scheme canonical | 1 |
| Gambit-C | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1160248 — 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: Gambit Scheme Context triple: [Scheme, notableImplementation, Gambit Scheme]
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A.
MIT Scheme
MIT Scheme is a long-standing, feature-rich implementation of the Scheme programming language developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, often used for teaching and research in computer science.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Racket
Racket is a modern, multi-paradigm programming language in the Lisp/Scheme family, designed for language-oriented programming, scripting, and education.
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E.
Revised^n Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme
The Revised^n Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme is the series of formal documents that define and evolve the official specification of the Scheme programming language.
- 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: Gambit Scheme Target entity description: Gambit Scheme is a high-performance implementation of the Scheme programming language, known for its efficient compiler, support for concurrent and distributed programming, and ability to generate C code for portability.
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A.
MIT Scheme
MIT Scheme is a long-standing, feature-rich implementation of the Scheme programming language developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, often used for teaching and research in computer science.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Racket
Racket is a modern, multi-paradigm programming language in the Lisp/Scheme family, designed for language-oriented programming, scripting, and education.
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E.
Revised^n Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme
The Revised^n Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme is the series of formal documents that define and evolve the official specification of the Scheme programming language.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scheme implementation
ⓘ
free software ⓘ open-source software ⓘ programming language implementation ⓘ |
| basedOnStandard |
Scheme R5RS
ⓘ
surface form:
R5RS
R7RS (small) (partial) ⓘ |
| compilesTo |
C
ⓘ
native code (via C compiler) ⓘ |
| developer | Marc Feeley ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Marc Feeley ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Gambit interpreter
ⓘ
Gambit Scheme self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Gambit-C
|
| implementsLanguage | Scheme ⓘ |
| license | Apache License 2.0 ⓘ |
| optimizationGoal |
fast startup time
ⓘ
high performance ⓘ small memory footprint ⓘ |
| previousLicense |
GNU Lesser General Public License
ⓘ
surface form:
LGPL
|
| programmingLanguage | Scheme ⓘ |
| provides |
bytecode interpreter
ⓘ
interactive REPL ⓘ native-code compiler ⓘ |
| repository | https://github.com/gambit/gambit ⓘ |
| supports |
debugging tools
ⓘ
profiling tools ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
C interoperability
ⓘ
Unicode ⓘ concurrent programming ⓘ distributed programming ⓘ first-class continuations ⓘ foreign function interface ⓘ lightweight threads ⓘ macros ⓘ message passing ⓘ module system ⓘ multithreading ⓘ tail-call optimization ⓘ |
| supportsParadigm |
functional programming
ⓘ
procedural programming ⓘ |
| supportsStandard | IEEE Scheme ⓘ |
| targetPlatform |
Unix-like systems
ⓘ
Windows ⓘ cross-platform ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| usedFor |
networked applications
ⓘ
research and teaching ⓘ systems programming ⓘ |
| website | https://gambitscheme.org ⓘ |
| writtenInLanguage | C ⓘ |
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: Gambit Scheme Description of subject: Gambit Scheme is a high-performance implementation of the Scheme programming language, known for its efficient compiler, support for concurrent and distributed programming, and ability to generate C code for portability.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Gambit-C