B programming language
E162095
high-level programming language
procedural programming language
programming language
systems programming language
The B programming language is an early, minimalist high-level language developed at Bell Labs that directly influenced the design of the C programming language.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| B programming language canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1413066 — 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: B programming language Context triple: [Ken Thompson, coCreatorOf, B programming language]
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A.
BCPL
BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) is an early, typeless systems programming language developed in the 1960s that significantly influenced the design of the C programming language.
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B.
C Branch
The C Branch is a light rail service of Boston's MBTA Green Line that runs along Beacon Street between downtown Boston and the Cleveland Circle area of Brighton.
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C.
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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D.
BC
BC is the Canadian province of British Columbia, located on the west coast of Canada with Vancouver as its largest city.
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E.
BC
BC is a private Jesuit research university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, known for its strong liberal arts programs and competitive NCAA Division I athletics.
- 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: B programming language Target entity description: The B programming language is an early, minimalist high-level language developed at Bell Labs that directly influenced the design of the C programming language.
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A.
BCPL
BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) is an early, typeless systems programming language developed in the 1960s that significantly influenced the design of the C programming language.
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B.
C Branch
The C Branch is a light rail service of Boston's MBTA Green Line that runs along Beacon Street between downtown Boston and the Cleveland Circle area of Brighton.
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C.
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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D.
BC
BC is the Canadian province of British Columbia, located on the west coast of Canada with Vancouver as its largest city.
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E.
BC
BC is a private Jesuit research university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, known for its strong liberal arts programs and competitive NCAA Division I athletics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
high-level programming language
ⓘ
procedural programming language ⓘ programming language ⓘ systems programming language ⓘ |
| category |
UNIX-related programming language
ⓘ
historical programming language ⓘ |
| designedFor |
PDP-11
ⓘ
surface form:
DEC PDP-11
PDP-7 ⓘ
surface form:
DEC PDP-7
Unix ⓘ
surface form:
UNIX operating system
minicomputers ⓘ system programming ⓘ |
| developedAt |
Bell Telephone Laboratories
ⓘ
surface form:
Bell Labs
|
| developer |
Dennis Ritchie
ⓘ
Ken Thompson ⓘ |
| executionModel | compiled language ⓘ |
| feature |
all data represented as machine words
ⓘ
close-to-hardware operations ⓘ compact compiler implementation ⓘ minimalist syntax ⓘ typeless data model ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | largely obsolete ⓘ |
| influenced |
BCPL-derived languages
ⓘ
C ⓘ
surface form:
C programming language
|
| influencedBy |
BCPL
ⓘ
CPL ⓘ |
| inspired |
C language control structures
ⓘ
C language operator set ⓘ C language syntax ⓘ |
| nameOrigin |
derived from BCPL name
ⓘ
letter following A in alphabet ⓘ |
| notableImplementation | Bell Labs B compiler ⓘ |
| paradigm | imperative programming ⓘ |
| predecessor | BCPL ⓘ |
| standardizationStatus | not formally standardized ⓘ |
| successor |
C
ⓘ
surface form:
C programming language
|
| supports |
bit-level operations
ⓘ
function definitions ⓘ pointer arithmetic ⓘ preprocessor-like macros ⓘ recursion ⓘ structured programming constructs ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early 1970s
ⓘ
late 1960s ⓘ |
| typingDiscipline |
static typing (limited)
ⓘ
weak typing ⓘ |
| usedFor |
early UNIX utilities
ⓘ
systems software on PDP-11 ⓘ systems software on PDP-7 ⓘ |
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: B programming language Description of subject: The B programming language is an early, minimalist high-level language developed at Bell Labs that directly influenced the design of the C programming language.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
BCPL