Algol 68
E17646
ALGOL-family language
high-level programming language
programming language
structured programming language
Algol 68 is a high-level, structured programming language from the ALGOL family, notable for its orthogonal design and influence on many later languages.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Algol 68 canonical | 8 |
| ALGOL 68 | 5 |
| ALGOL family | 1 |
| Algol 68 language specification | 1 |
| Algol 68 report | 1 |
| Algol 68S | 1 |
| Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 68 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T148078 — 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 68 Context triple: [Python, influencedBy, Algol 68]
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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.
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.
Modula-2
Modula-2 is a systems programming language designed by Niklaus Wirth that extends Pascal with modules, concurrency features, and low-level facilities for structured, efficient software development.
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E.
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.
- 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 68 Target entity description: 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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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.
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.
Modula-2
Modula-2 is a systems programming language designed by Niklaus Wirth that extends Pascal with modules, concurrency features, and low-level facilities for structured, efficient software development.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ALGOL-family language
ⓘ
high-level programming language ⓘ programming language ⓘ structured programming language ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Netherlands ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Algol 68
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 68
|
| designedBy |
Adriaan van Wijngaarden
ⓘ
IFIP Working Group 2.1 ⓘ |
| firstAppeared | 1968 ⓘ |
| hasDesignGoal |
clarity of formal definition
ⓘ
generality ⓘ machine independence ⓘ orthogonality of language features ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
automatic type coercion rules
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block structure ⓘ concurrent programming primitives ⓘ flexible arrays ⓘ garbage collection (in some implementations) ⓘ orthogonal design ⓘ procedures as first-class values ⓘ strong typing ⓘ structured programming constructs ⓘ union types ⓘ user-defined data types ⓘ |
| hasImplementation |
Algol 68 Genie
ⓘ
Algol 68C ⓘ Algol 68R ⓘ |
| hasSubLanguage | Algol 68S ⓘ |
| hasSyntax | two-level grammar (van Wijngaarden grammar) ⓘ |
| influenced |
ABC programming language
ⓘ
surface form:
ABC (programming language)
Ada (programming language) ⓘ
surface form:
Ada
Algol 68C ⓘ Algol 68R ⓘ Algol 68 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Algol 68S
C ⓘ CLU ⓘ Pascal ⓘ Perl ⓘ Python ⓘ Scheme ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
ALGOL 60
ⓘ
BCPL ⓘ
surface form:
CPL (programming language)
|
| maintainedBy | IFIP Working Group 2.1 ⓘ |
| paradigm |
imperative programming
ⓘ
procedural programming ⓘ structured programming ⓘ |
| partOf |
Algol 68
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
ALGOL family
|
| publicationYearOfRevisedReport | 1973 ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | IFIP ⓘ |
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 68 Description of subject: Algol 68 is a high-level, structured programming language from the ALGOL family, notable for its orthogonal design and influence on many later languages.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ALGOL 68
this entity surface form:
Algol 68S
this entity surface form:
Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 68
this entity surface form:
ALGOL 68
this entity surface form:
Algol 68 language specification
this entity surface form:
ALGOL 68
this entity surface form:
Algol 68 report
this entity surface form:
ALGOL 68