Rust
E17650
Rust is a modern systems programming language focused on memory safety, concurrency, and performance without a garbage collector.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rust canonical | 66 |
| Rust programming language | 8 |
| Rust project | 3 |
| crates.io | 2 |
| Rust (via LLVM IR) | 1 |
| Rust (via extension) | 1 |
| Rust (via rustc) | 1 |
| Rust (via third-party libraries) | 1 |
| alloc (Rust crate) | 1 |
| rust-lang/rust repository | 1 |
| rustc | 1 |
| std::fmt module | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T148082 — 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: Rust Context triple: [Python, influenced, Rust]
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A.
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.
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B.
B Reactor
B Reactor is the world’s first full-scale plutonium production reactor, built during the Manhattan Project at the Hanford Site in Washington State.
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C.
Edge
Edge is Microsoft’s modern web browser designed to be fast, secure, and integrated with the Windows ecosystem and Microsoft services.
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D.
C++
C++ is a high-performance, general-purpose programming language widely used for system/software development, game engines, and performance-critical applications.
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E.
A Loop
A Loop is a modern streetcar route in Portland, Oregon, that provides circulator service through the central city and adjacent neighborhoods as part of the Portland Streetcar system.
- 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: Rust Target entity description: Rust is a modern systems programming language focused on memory safety, concurrency, and performance without a garbage collector.
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A.
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.
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B.
B Reactor
B Reactor is the world’s first full-scale plutonium production reactor, built during the Manhattan Project at the Hanford Site in Washington State.
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C.
Edge
Edge is Microsoft’s modern web browser designed to be fast, secure, and integrated with the Windows ecosystem and Microsoft services.
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D.
C++
C++ is a high-performance, general-purpose programming language widely used for system/software development, game engines, and performance-critical applications.
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E.
A Loop
A Loop is a modern streetcar route in Portland, Oregon, that provides circulator service through the central city and adjacent neighborhoods as part of the Portland Streetcar system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (78)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
programming language
ⓘ
systems programming language ⓘ |
| defaultToolchain | rustup ⓘ |
| designedBy | Graydon Hoare ⓘ |
| designedFor |
concurrent programming
ⓘ
memory safety without garbage collection ⓘ performance-critical applications ⓘ systems programming ⓘ |
| developedBy |
Mozilla
ⓘ
surface form:
Mozilla Research
|
| fileExtension | .rs ⓘ |
| firstAppeared | 2010 ⓘ |
| governedBy | Rust Foundation ⓘ |
| hasCommunity | Rust Foundation ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
FFI support
ⓘ
algebraic data types ⓘ async-await ⓘ borrow checker ⓘ cargo package manager ⓘ closures ⓘ const evaluation ⓘ fearless concurrency ⓘ generics ⓘ macros ⓘ match expressions ⓘ modules and crates ⓘ no data races in safe code ⓘ no garbage collector ⓘ no null by default ⓘ pattern matching ⓘ pattern-based error handling with Result and Option ⓘ traits ⓘ type inference ⓘ unsafe code blocks ⓘ zero-cost abstractions ⓘ |
| influenced |
Carbon (late transitional API)
ⓘ
surface form:
Carbon programming language
Vale programming language ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
C++
ⓘ
Cyclone ⓘ Erlang ⓘ Haskell ⓘ ML ⓘ |
| license |
Apache License 2.0
ⓘ
MIT License ⓘ |
| memoryManagement |
borrowing
ⓘ
lifetimes ⓘ ownership system ⓘ |
| notableProject |
Bevy game engine
ⓘ
Firefox components ⓘ Servo browser engine ⓘ actix-web ⓘ ripgrep ⓘ tokio ⓘ |
| notableUser |
Amazon Web Services
ⓘ
Cloudflare ⓘ Dropbox ⓘ Microsoft ⓘ Mozilla ⓘ |
| packageManager | Cargo ⓘ |
| paradigm |
concurrent
ⓘ
functional ⓘ generic ⓘ imperative ⓘ multi-paradigm ⓘ |
| slogan |
fearless concurrency
ⓘ
memory safety without garbage collection ⓘ |
| stableRelease | 1.0.0 ⓘ |
| stableReleaseDate | 2015-05-15 ⓘ |
| standardLibrary | std ⓘ |
| supports |
WebAssembly specification
ⓘ
surface form:
WebAssembly
command-line applications ⓘ cross-platform development ⓘ embedded systems ⓘ network services ⓘ operating system development ⓘ |
| typingDiscipline |
inferred typing
ⓘ
static typing ⓘ strong typing ⓘ |
| website | https://www.rust-lang.org/ ⓘ |
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: Rust Description of subject: Rust is a modern systems programming language focused on memory safety, concurrency, and performance without a garbage collector.
Referenced by (87)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rust programming language
this entity surface form:
Rust project
this entity surface form:
Rust programming language
this entity surface form:
Rust programming language
subject surface form:
GTK
this entity surface form:
Rust (via third-party libraries)
this entity surface form:
Rust (via LLVM IR)
subject surface form:
MongoDB