Go
E17649
Go is a statically typed, compiled programming language developed at Google, known for its simplicity, efficient concurrency support, and suitability for scalable networked and cloud services.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Go canonical | 75 |
| Go programming language | 10 |
| Go (via gccgo-llvm and others, experimental) | 1 |
| Go 1.22 | 1 |
| Go SDK | 1 |
| Go concurrency model | 1 |
| Go modules | 1 |
| Go programming language runtime (early work) | 1 |
| Go programming language specification | 1 |
| Go toolchain | 1 |
| Golang | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T148081 — 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: Go Context triple: [Python, influenced, Go]
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A.
GOC
GOC is the standardised set of spelling and writing rules used for modern Scottish Gaelic.
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B.
GU
GU is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code assigned to Guam, an unincorporated territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean.
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C.
GAU
GAU is an abbreviation commonly used for the University of Göttingen, a major research university in Göttingen, Germany.
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D.
Java
Java is a large, densely populated island in Indonesia that has long served as the country’s political and economic center.
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E.
Java
Java is a widely used, object-oriented programming language known for its platform independence and extensive use in enterprise, web, and mobile application development.
- 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: Go Target entity description: Go is a statically typed, compiled programming language developed at Google, known for its simplicity, efficient concurrency support, and suitability for scalable networked and cloud services.
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A.
GOC
GOC is the standardised set of spelling and writing rules used for modern Scottish Gaelic.
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B.
GU
GU is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code assigned to Guam, an unincorporated territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean.
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C.
GAU
GAU is an abbreviation commonly used for the University of Göttingen, a major research university in Göttingen, Germany.
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D.
Java
Java is a large, densely populated island in Indonesia that has long served as the country’s political and economic center.
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E.
Java
Java is a widely used, object-oriented programming language known for its platform independence and extensive use in enterprise, web, and mobile application development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
compiled programming language
ⓘ
programming language ⓘ statically typed programming language ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Go
ⓘ
surface form:
Golang
|
| concurrencyModel | CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes) ⓘ |
| designedBy |
Ken Thompson
ⓘ
Rob Pike ⓘ Robert Griesemer ⓘ |
| developer | Google ⓘ |
| executionModel | compiled to native code ⓘ |
| fileExtension | .go ⓘ |
| firstAppeared | 2009 ⓘ |
| hasCommand |
go build
ⓘ
go fmt ⓘ go run ⓘ go test ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
channels
ⓘ
cross-compilation support ⓘ garbage collection ⓘ goroutines ⓘ interfaces ⓘ modules ⓘ packages ⓘ standard tooling ⓘ type inference for local variables ⓘ |
| influenced |
Carbon
ⓘ
Crystal ⓘ Dart ⓘ Julia ⓘ Kotlin ⓘ Rust ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Aleph
ⓘ
surface form:
Alef
C ⓘ Limbo ⓘ Modula-2 ⓘ
surface form:
Modula
Newsqueak ⓘ Oberon ⓘ Pascal ⓘ |
| license | BSD-style license ⓘ |
| memoryManagement | garbage collected ⓘ |
| notableUser |
Cloudflare
ⓘ
Docker ⓘ Google ⓘ Kubernetes ⓘ |
| packageManager | go toolchain (go get, go mod) ⓘ |
| paradigm |
concurrent programming
ⓘ
imperative programming ⓘ procedural programming ⓘ structured programming ⓘ |
| platform | cross-platform ⓘ |
| stableRelease |
Go
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Go 1.22
|
| standardImplementation | gc (Go compiler) ⓘ |
| standardLibrary | Go standard library ⓘ |
| supports |
cloud-native development
ⓘ
concurrency ⓘ network programming ⓘ |
| typingDiscipline |
static typing
ⓘ
strong typing ⓘ |
| usedFor |
DevOps tooling
ⓘ
cloud infrastructure tools ⓘ distributed systems ⓘ web services ⓘ |
| website | https://go.dev/ ⓘ |
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: Go Description of subject: Go is a statically typed, compiled programming language developed at Google, known for its simplicity, efficient concurrency support, and suitability for scalable networked and cloud services.
Referenced by (94)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
kubectl
subject surface form:
GTK
subject surface form:
Podman
this entity surface form:
Go SDK
subject surface form:
WireGuard
this entity surface form:
Go programming language
this entity surface form:
Go modules