Clojure
E308600
Clojure is a modern, functional, and dynamic dialect of Lisp that runs on the Java Virtual Machine and emphasizes immutability and concurrent programming.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clojure canonical | 13 |
| Clojure CLR | 1 |
| Clojure JVM | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2889632 — 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: Clojure Context triple: [Spacemacs, supportsProgrammingLanguage, Clojure]
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A.
Lisp programming language
Lisp is a pioneering high-level programming language, especially influential in artificial intelligence research and known for its symbolic processing and distinctive parenthesized syntax.
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B.
Racket
Racket is a modern, multi-paradigm programming language in the Lisp/Scheme family, designed for language-oriented programming, scripting, and education.
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C.
Common Lisp
Common Lisp is a powerful, multi-paradigm dialect of the Lisp programming language standardised in the 1980s, known for its rich macro system, dynamic typing, and suitability for large-scale, extensible software systems.
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D.
Chez Scheme
Chez Scheme is a high-performance, optimizing implementation of the Scheme programming language widely used for both research and production systems.
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E.
Scheme
Scheme is a minimalist, lexically scoped dialect of the Lisp programming language known for its elegant functional programming model and powerful macro 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: Clojure Target entity description: Clojure is a modern, functional, and dynamic dialect of Lisp that runs on the Java Virtual Machine and emphasizes immutability and concurrent programming.
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A.
Lisp programming language
Lisp is a pioneering high-level programming language, especially influential in artificial intelligence research and known for its symbolic processing and distinctive parenthesized syntax.
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B.
Racket
Racket is a modern, multi-paradigm programming language in the Lisp/Scheme family, designed for language-oriented programming, scripting, and education.
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C.
Common Lisp
Common Lisp is a powerful, multi-paradigm dialect of the Lisp programming language standardised in the 1980s, known for its rich macro system, dynamic typing, and suitability for large-scale, extensible software systems.
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D.
Chez Scheme
Chez Scheme is a high-performance, optimizing implementation of the Scheme programming language widely used for both research and production systems.
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E.
Scheme
Scheme is a minimalist, lexically scoped dialect of the Lisp programming language known for its elegant functional programming model and powerful macro system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (88)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Lisp dialect
ⓘ
programming language ⓘ |
| creator | Rich Hickey ⓘ |
| defaultDataStructures |
lists
ⓘ
maps ⓘ sets ⓘ vectors ⓘ |
| dialectOf |
Lisp programming language
ⓘ
surface form:
Lisp
|
| ecosystem |
Clojure core.async
ⓘ
surface form:
Clojure core libraries
Compojure ⓘ Datomic ⓘ Integrant ⓘ Luminus ⓘ Mount ⓘ Pedestal ⓘ Ring ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
concurrency
ⓘ
functional programming ⓘ host interoperability ⓘ immutability ⓘ persistent data structures ⓘ |
| evaluationStrategy | eager evaluation ⓘ |
| family |
Lisp programming language
ⓘ
surface form:
Lisp
|
| fileExtension |
.clj
ⓘ
.cljc ⓘ .cljs ⓘ |
| firstAppeared | 2007 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
destructuring
ⓘ
lazy sequences ⓘ metadata ⓘ namespaced keywords ⓘ reader macros ⓘ sequence abstraction ⓘ specification system clojure.spec ⓘ |
| hostLanguage |
.NET languages
ⓘ
Java ⓘ JavaScript ⓘ |
| implementation |
Clojure
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Clojure CLR
Clojure self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Clojure JVM
ClojureScript ⓘ |
| influenced |
Babashka
ⓘ
ClojureScript ⓘ Fennel ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Common Lisp
ⓘ
Haskell ⓘ Java ⓘ Lisp programming language ⓘ
surface form:
Lisp
ML ⓘ Scheme ⓘ |
| license | Eclipse Public License ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
code as data
ⓘ
host-agnostic language design ⓘ simple values and functions ⓘ |
| paradigm |
concurrent programming
ⓘ
data-driven programming ⓘ dynamic programming language ⓘ functional programming ⓘ imperative programming ⓘ metaprogramming ⓘ |
| platform |
.NET Framework
ⓘ
surface form:
.NET
Java Virtual Machine ⓘ
surface form:
JVM
JavaScript ⓘ |
| runsOn |
Common Language Runtime
ⓘ
surface form:
.NET Common Language Runtime
Java Virtual Machine ⓘ JavaScript engine ⓘ |
| stableRelease | 1.11.1 ⓘ |
| supports |
Java interoperability
ⓘ
REPL-driven development ⓘ agents ⓘ Clojure core.async ⓘ
surface form:
core.async
futures ⓘ homoiconicity ⓘ macros ⓘ multimethods ⓘ namespaces ⓘ protocols ⓘ records ⓘ software transactional memory ⓘ |
| tooling |
Boot
ⓘ
Leiningen ⓘ deps.edn ⓘ |
| typingDiscipline | dynamic typing ⓘ |
| usedFor |
REPL-based exploration
ⓘ
concurrent systems ⓘ data processing ⓘ scripting on the JVM ⓘ web development ⓘ |
| website | https://clojure.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: Clojure Description of subject: Clojure is a modern, functional, and dynamic dialect of Lisp that runs on the Java Virtual Machine and emphasizes immutability and concurrent programming.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lisp
subject surface form:
Lisp
this entity surface form:
Clojure JVM
this entity surface form:
Clojure CLR