The Pragmatic Programmer
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The Pragmatic Programmer is a highly influential software development book that offers practical advice, best practices, and philosophical guidance for writing maintainable, high-quality code and growing as a professional programmer.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T249051 — 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: The Pragmatic Programmer Context triple: [Addison-Wesley, hasPublished, The Pragmatic Programmer]
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A.
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship is a highly influential software engineering book by Robert C. Martin that teaches principles and practices for writing readable, maintainable, and high-quality code.
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B.
Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices
"Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices" is a foundational software engineering book by Robert C. Martin that explains agile methodologies through object-oriented design principles, design patterns, and best practices for building maintainable code.
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C.
The Mythical Man-Month
The Mythical Man-Month is a classic software engineering book by Fred Brooks that explores the challenges of large-scale software projects and famously argues that adding manpower to a late project makes it later.
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D.
Programming Pearls
Programming Pearls is a classic computer science book by Jon Bentley that teaches practical problem-solving, algorithm design, and programming techniques through engaging essays and puzzles.
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E.
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
"Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" is a seminal software engineering book by Martin Fowler that systematically defines refactoring techniques to improve code structure while preserving behavior.
- 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: The Pragmatic Programmer Target entity description: The Pragmatic Programmer is a highly influential software development book that offers practical advice, best practices, and philosophical guidance for writing maintainable, high-quality code and growing as a professional programmer.
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A.
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship is a highly influential software engineering book by Robert C. Martin that teaches principles and practices for writing readable, maintainable, and high-quality code.
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B.
Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices
"Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices" is a foundational software engineering book by Robert C. Martin that explains agile methodologies through object-oriented design principles, design patterns, and best practices for building maintainable code.
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C.
The Mythical Man-Month
The Mythical Man-Month is a classic software engineering book by Fred Brooks that explores the challenges of large-scale software projects and famously argues that adding manpower to a late project makes it later.
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D.
Programming Pearls
Programming Pearls is a classic computer science book by Jon Bentley that teaches practical problem-solving, algorithm design, and programming techniques through engaging essays and puzzles.
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E.
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
"Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" is a seminal software engineering book by Martin Fowler that systematically defines refactoring techniques to improve code structure while preserving behavior.
- F. None of above. chosen
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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non-fiction book ⓘ revised edition ⓘ software engineering book ⓘ |
| author |
Andrew Hunt
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David Thomas ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describes | pragmatic approach to programming ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
continuous learning
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developer professionalism ⓘ high-quality code ⓘ practical tips and techniques ⓘ writing maintainable code ⓘ |
| genre |
professional handbook
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technical literature ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
DRY principle
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automation of repetitive tasks ⓘ broken windows theory in code ⓘ communicating with stakeholders ⓘ design by contract ⓘ orthogonality in software design ⓘ pragmatic testing ⓘ programmer as craftsman ⓘ tracer bullets ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
The Pragmatic Programmer
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition
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| hasFormat |
digital
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hardcover ⓘ paperback ⓘ |
| hasReception | highly influential in software development community ⓘ |
| influenced |
agile software development practices
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software craftsmanship movement ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType |
ebook
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print ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf |
Andrew Hunt
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David Thomas ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| publicationDate |
1999-10-30
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2019-09-13 ⓘ |
| publisher | Addison-Wesley ⓘ |
| recommendedBy |
many senior developers
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software engineering educators ⓘ |
| subject |
professional development
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programming best practices ⓘ software development ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
aspiring programmers
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professional programmers ⓘ software developers ⓘ software engineers ⓘ |
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: The Pragmatic Programmer Description of subject: The Pragmatic Programmer is a highly influential software development book that offers practical advice, best practices, and philosophical guidance for writing maintainable, high-quality code and growing as a professional programmer.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition
this entity surface form:
"The Pragmatic Programmer"
this entity surface form:
pragmatic programming
this entity surface form:
"The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery"
subject surface form:
Apprenticeship Patterns