GNU Guile
E61969
GNU Guile is the official extension language platform of the GNU Project, providing a Scheme-based scripting and programming environment for extending and customizing applications.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GNU Guile canonical | 2 |
| Guile Scheme | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T497661 — 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: GNU Guile Context triple: [GNU Project, hasPart, GNU Guile]
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A.
Scheme
Scheme is a minimalist, lexically scoped dialect of the Lisp programming language known for its elegant functional programming model and powerful macro system.
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B.
GNU Project
The GNU Project is a free software initiative that created many core components of the GNU/Linux operating system and pioneered the modern free software movement.
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C.
Emacs Lisp (for GNU Emacs environment)
Emacs Lisp is a dialect of the Lisp programming language used as the extension and scripting language of the GNU Emacs text editor.
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D.
Eshell
Eshell is a powerful, Emacs-integrated command shell written in Emacs Lisp that provides a Unix-like shell environment tightly coupled with Emacs features and workflows.
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E.
Gnus
Gnus is a flexible and extensible message reader for news and email, tightly integrated with the Emacs text editor.
- 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: GNU Guile Target entity description: GNU Guile is the official extension language platform of the GNU Project, providing a Scheme-based scripting and programming environment for extending and customizing applications.
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A.
Scheme
Scheme is a minimalist, lexically scoped dialect of the Lisp programming language known for its elegant functional programming model and powerful macro system.
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B.
GNU Project
The GNU Project is a free software initiative that created many core components of the GNU/Linux operating system and pioneered the modern free software movement.
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C.
Emacs Lisp (for GNU Emacs environment)
Emacs Lisp is a dialect of the Lisp programming language used as the extension and scripting language of the GNU Emacs text editor.
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D.
Eshell
Eshell is a powerful, Emacs-integrated command shell written in Emacs Lisp that provides a Unix-like shell environment tightly coupled with Emacs features and workflows.
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E.
Gnus
Gnus is a flexible and extensible message reader for news and email, tightly integrated with the Emacs text editor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scheme implementation
ⓘ
extension language platform ⓘ free software ⓘ programming language implementation ⓘ |
| category |
GNU Project software
ⓘ
Scheme implementation ⓘ scripting language runtime ⓘ |
| designGoal |
embeddable interpreter
ⓘ
extensible system ⓘ portable implementation ⓘ |
| developer |
Free Software Foundation
ⓘ
GNU Project ⓘ |
| feature |
POSIX bindings
ⓘ
R5RS support ⓘ R6RS support ⓘ REPL ⓘ SRFI support ⓘ bytecode virtual machine ⓘ foreign function interface ⓘ garbage collection ⓘ just-in-time compilation ⓘ module system ⓘ multi-language support ⓘ |
| goal |
enable application extensibility
ⓘ
provide a powerful scripting environment ⓘ serve as the official extension language of the GNU Project ⓘ |
| implementationLanguage | C ⓘ |
| license |
GNU Lesser General Public License
ⓘ
GNU Lesser General Public License ⓘ
surface form:
LGPL
|
| operatingSystem |
GNU Project
ⓘ
surface form:
GNU
GNU/Linux ⓘ Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| partOf | GNU Project ⓘ |
| programmingLanguageFamily | Scheme ⓘ |
| supports |
dynamic typing
ⓘ
first-class continuations ⓘ tail-call optimization ⓘ |
| supportsLanguage |
ECMAScript subset
ⓘ
Scheme ⓘ |
| supportsParadigm |
functional programming
ⓘ
procedural programming ⓘ scripting ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
Scheme R5RS
ⓘ
Scheme R6RS (partially) ⓘ |
| useCase |
customization of applications
ⓘ
embedding in programs ⓘ extension language for applications ⓘ scripting ⓘ |
| website | https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ ⓘ |
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: GNU Guile Description of subject: GNU Guile is the official extension language platform of the GNU Project, providing a Scheme-based scripting and programming environment for extending and customizing applications.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Guile Scheme