Racket
E131743
Racket is a modern, multi-paradigm programming language in the Lisp/Scheme family, designed for language-oriented programming, scripting, and education.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Racket canonical | 4 |
| DrRacket | 1 |
| Racket (some ideas) | 1 |
| Racket development team | 1 |
| Racket distribution | 1 |
| Rhombus (Racket dialect) | 1 |
| Typed Racket | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1160211 — 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: Racket Context triple: [Scheme, influenced, Racket]
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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 Guile
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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C.
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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D.
Elixir
Elixir is a functional, concurrent programming language built on the Erlang VM, known for its scalability, fault tolerance, and expressive syntax.
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E.
Julia
Julia is a high-level, high-performance programming language designed for numerical computing, data science, and scientific research, combining the ease of dynamic languages with the speed of compiled languages.
- 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: Racket Target entity description: 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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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 Guile
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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C.
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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D.
Elixir
Elixir is a functional, concurrent programming language built on the Erlang VM, known for its scalability, fault tolerance, and expressive syntax.
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E.
Julia
Julia is a high-level, high-performance programming language designed for numerical computing, data science, and scientific research, combining the ease of dynamic languages with the speed of compiled languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (81)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Lisp dialect
ⓘ
Scheme dialect ⓘ programming language ⓘ |
| designedFor |
education
ⓘ
language-oriented programming ⓘ scripting ⓘ |
| developer |
PLT Inc.
ⓘ
Racket development team ⓘ
linked to:
Racket
|
| distributionFormat |
Racket distribution
ⓘ
linked to:
Racket
|
| family |
Lisp
ⓘ
linked to:
Lisp programming language
Scheme ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
GUI libraries
ⓘ
JIT compilation ⓘ REPL ⓘ S-expression syntax ⓘ bytecode compiler ⓘ concurrency support ⓘ contract system ⓘ cross-platform support ⓘ debugger ⓘ documentation system ⓘ first-class continuations ⓘ foreign function interface ⓘ futures for parallelism ⓘ garbage collection ⓘ graphical language teaching tools ⓘ hygienic macros ⓘ immutable data structures ⓘ language creation tools ⓘ language levels for teaching ⓘ macro stepper ⓘ module system ⓘ mutable data structures ⓘ object-oriented extensions ⓘ package manager ⓘ pattern matching ⓘ places for parallelism ⓘ powerful macro system ⓘ profiler ⓘ raco command-line tool ⓘ reader extensions ⓘ sandboxed evaluation ⓘ scribble documentation language ⓘ struct types ⓘ syntax-parse system ⓘ test framework ⓘ typed language variant ⓘ unit system ⓘ web server libraries ⓘ |
| hasIDE |
DrRacket
ⓘ
linked to:
Racket
|
| hasPackageRepository | Racket package catalog ⓘ |
| implementationLanguage |
C
ⓘ
Racket ⓘ |
| influenced |
Rhombus (Racket dialect)
ⓘ
linked to:
Racket
Typed Racket ⓘ
linked to:
Racket
|
| influencedBy |
Lisp
ⓘ
linked to:
Lisp programming language
Scheme ⓘ |
| license |
LGPL
ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Lesser General Public License
|
| operatingSystem | cross-platform ⓘ |
| paradigm |
functional programming language
ⓘ
imperative programming language ⓘ logic programming language ⓘ meta-programming language ⓘ multi-paradigm ⓘ |
| predecessor | PLT Scheme ⓘ |
| standardImplementationOf | #lang racket language ⓘ |
| supports |
concurrent programming
ⓘ
creating new #lang languages ⓘ domain-specific language design ⓘ functional programming style ⓘ logic programming style ⓘ metaprogramming ⓘ object-oriented programming style ⓘ |
| typingDiscipline |
dynamically typed
ⓘ
optionally statically typed ⓘ |
| usedFor |
domain-specific languages
ⓘ
introductory computer science education ⓘ programming languages research ⓘ scripting applications ⓘ web applications ⓘ |
| website | https://racket-lang.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: Racket Description of subject: Racket is a modern, multi-paradigm programming language in the Lisp/Scheme family, designed for language-oriented programming, scripting, and education.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lisp programming language
linked to: Racket
linked to: Racket
linked to: Racket
linked to: Racket