Swift
E17651
Swift is a modern, compiled programming language developed by Apple for building fast, safe, and expressive applications across its platforms and beyond.
All labels observed (14)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swift canonical | 89 |
| Swift programming language | 4 |
| Swift (programming language) | 2 |
| Array (Swift) | 1 |
| Data (Swift) | 1 |
| Swift (via Swift compiler) | 1 |
| Swift 2 | 1 |
| Swift 3 | 1 |
| Swift 5 enhancements | 1 |
| Swift 5.3 | 1 |
| Swift API | 1 |
| Swift APIs | 1 |
| Swift compiler | 1 |
| Swift runtime | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T148083 — 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: Swift Context triple: [Python, influenced, Swift]
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A.
Kotlin
Kotlin is a modern, statically typed programming language developed by JetBrains that runs on the JVM and is widely used for building Android applications.
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B.
F Reactor
F Reactor was one of the early plutonium production reactors at the Hanford Site in Washington, built during the Manhattan Project to support the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
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C.
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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D.
iOS
iOS is Apple’s mobile operating system that powers iPhones and iPads, known for its integrated ecosystem, security features, and curated App Store.
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E.
Thunderbolt
Thunderbolt is a high-speed hardware interface standard developed by Intel and Apple that combines data, video, audio, and power transmission over a single cable, commonly used for connecting peripherals to computers.
- 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: Swift Target entity description: Swift is a modern, compiled programming language developed by Apple for building fast, safe, and expressive applications across its platforms and beyond.
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A.
Kotlin
Kotlin is a modern, statically typed programming language developed by JetBrains that runs on the JVM and is widely used for building Android applications.
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B.
F Reactor
F Reactor was one of the early plutonium production reactors at the Hanford Site in Washington, built during the Manhattan Project to support the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
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C.
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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D.
iOS
iOS is Apple’s mobile operating system that powers iPhones and iPads, known for its integrated ecosystem, security features, and curated App Store.
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E.
Thunderbolt
Thunderbolt is a high-speed hardware interface standard developed by Intel and Apple that combines data, video, audio, and power transmission over a single cable, commonly used for connecting peripherals to computers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (71)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | programming language ⓘ |
| announcedAt | Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2014 ⓘ |
| backwardCompatibility | interoperable with Objective-C APIs ⓘ |
| compilesTo | native code ⓘ |
| defaultFileExtension | .swift ⓘ |
| designedBy |
Apple Inc.
ⓘ
Chris Lattner ⓘ |
| designGoal |
expressiveness
ⓘ
modern syntax ⓘ performance ⓘ safety ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| firstAppeared | 2014 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
actors
ⓘ
automatic reference counting ⓘ closures ⓘ concurrency with async-await ⓘ error handling with try-catch ⓘ generics ⓘ interoperability with Objective-C ⓘ memory safety features ⓘ modules ⓘ null safety via optionals ⓘ optionals ⓘ pattern matching ⓘ protocol extensions ⓘ type inference ⓘ value types with structs and enums ⓘ |
| influenced | Swift for TensorFlow ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
C# programming language
ⓘ
surface form:
C#
CLU ⓘ Haskell ⓘ Objective-C ⓘ Python ⓘ Ruby ⓘ Rust ⓘ |
| license | Apache License 2.0 ⓘ |
| memoryManagement | automatic reference counting ⓘ |
| packageManager | Swift Package Manager ⓘ |
| paradigm |
block-structured programming language
ⓘ
functional programming language ⓘ imperative programming language ⓘ multi-paradigm ⓘ object-oriented programming language ⓘ protocol-oriented programming language ⓘ |
| platform |
Android (community-supported)
ⓘ
Linux ⓘ Windows ⓘ iOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ tvOS ⓘ watchOS ⓘ |
| repository | https://github.com/apple/swift ⓘ |
| sourceModel | open source ⓘ |
| stableRelease | Swift 5.x ⓘ |
| standardLibrary | Swift Standard Library ⓘ |
| targetApplicationDomain |
desktop applications
ⓘ
mobile applications ⓘ server-side applications ⓘ systems programming ⓘ |
| typingDiscipline |
static typing
ⓘ
strong typing ⓘ type inference ⓘ |
| usedWithFramework |
macOS Cocoa
ⓘ
surface form:
AppKit
Combine ⓘ SwiftUI ⓘ UIKit ⓘ Vapor (web framework) ⓘ |
| usesCompiler |
Swift
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Swift compiler
|
| usesCompilerInfrastructure | LLVM ⓘ |
| website | https://swift.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: Swift Description of subject: Swift is a modern, compiled programming language developed by Apple for building fast, safe, and expressive applications across its platforms and beyond.
Referenced by (106)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Swift programming language
this entity surface form:
Data (Swift)
this entity surface form:
Array (Swift)
this entity surface form:
Swift 5 enhancements
subject surface form:
App protocol (SwiftUI)
this entity surface form:
Swift 5.3
subject surface form:
App protocol (SwiftUI)
this entity surface form:
Swift APIs
this entity surface form:
Swift runtime
subject surface form:
Quartz (Apple graphics)
this entity surface form:
Swift API