Open Roberta
E203932
block-based programming environment
educational software
robot programming environment
visual programming environment
Open Roberta is a visual, block-based programming environment designed to teach children and beginners how to program robots and microcontrollers like the Calliope mini.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Open Roberta canonical | 1 |
| Open Roberta Lab | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1832628 — 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: Open Roberta Context triple: [Calliope mini, programmingLanguage, Open Roberta]
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A.
Toys for Bob
Toys for Bob is an American video game developer best known for creating the Skylanders series and working on remakes like the Spyro Reignited Trilogy.
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B.
Explorer.exe
Explorer.exe is the Windows graphical shell and file manager process that provides the desktop, taskbar, and file-browsing interface.
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C.
Firebird
Firebird is a floorless steel roller coaster at Six Flags America known for its inversions and smooth, high-speed ride experience.
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D.
The Rest of the Robots
The Rest of the Robots is a science fiction short story collection by Isaac Asimov that gathers many of his classic robot tales exploring the implications of the Three Laws of Robotics.
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E.
K-Switch
K-Switch is a Nigerian singer and songwriter best known as D'banj's younger brother and frequent musical collaborator in the Afrobeats scene.
- 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: Open Roberta Target entity description: Open Roberta is a visual, block-based programming environment designed to teach children and beginners how to program robots and microcontrollers like the Calliope mini.
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A.
Toys for Bob
Toys for Bob is an American video game developer best known for creating the Skylanders series and working on remakes like the Spyro Reignited Trilogy.
-
B.
Explorer.exe
Explorer.exe is the Windows graphical shell and file manager process that provides the desktop, taskbar, and file-browsing interface.
-
C.
Firebird
Firebird is a floorless steel roller coaster at Six Flags America known for its inversions and smooth, high-speed ride experience.
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D.
The Rest of the Robots
The Rest of the Robots is a science fiction short story collection by Isaac Asimov that gathers many of his classic robot tales exploring the implications of the Three Laws of Robotics.
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E.
K-Switch
K-Switch is a Nigerian singer and songwriter best known as D'banj's younger brother and frequent musical collaborator in the Afrobeats scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
block-based programming environment
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educational software ⓘ robot programming environment ⓘ visual programming environment ⓘ |
| basedOn | NEPO visual programming language ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| developer |
Fraunhofer IAIS
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Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems ⓘ |
| educationalDomain |
STEM education
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computer science education ⓘ |
| educationalLevel |
primary education
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secondary education ⓘ |
| feature |
beginner-friendly tutorials
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cloud-based project storage ⓘ code generation for robots ⓘ drag-and-drop programming blocks ⓘ multilingual interface ⓘ simulation environment for robots ⓘ |
| goal |
to make programming accessible to children
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to simplify robot programming ⓘ to support STEM education in schools ⓘ |
| license | open source license ⓘ |
| partOf |
Open Roberta
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Open Roberta Lab
|
| programmingParadigm |
block-based programming
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visual programming ⓘ |
| supportsConcept |
conditions
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functions ⓘ loops ⓘ sensors and actuators ⓘ variables ⓘ |
| supportsDevice |
Arduino-based robots
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Calliope mini ⓘ LEGO Mindstorms EV3 ⓘ LEGO Mindstorms NXT ⓘ LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor ⓘ NAO robot ⓘ micro:bit ⓘ various educational robots ⓘ |
| supportsPlatform | web browser ⓘ |
| supportsProgrammingLanguage |
generated C/C++ code (depending on robot)
ⓘ
generated Python code (for some platforms) ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
beginners
ⓘ
children ⓘ students ⓘ |
| usedIn |
coding workshops
ⓘ
robotics courses ⓘ schools ⓘ |
| userInterface | graphical user interface ⓘ |
| website | https://lab.open-roberta.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: Open Roberta Description of subject: Open Roberta is a visual, block-based programming environment designed to teach children and beginners how to program robots and microcontrollers like the Calliope mini.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Open Roberta Lab