TinyScheme
E131749
TinyScheme is a lightweight, embeddable implementation of the Scheme programming language designed for easy integration into applications.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| TinyScheme canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1160253 — 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: TinyScheme Context triple: [Scheme, notableImplementation, TinyScheme]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
UCSD p-System
UCSD p-System is a portable operating system and programming environment based on the Pascal language and p-code virtual machine, widely used in the late 1970s and early 1980s across multiple hardware platforms.
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D.
Vale programming language
Vale is a memory-safe, performance-focused systems programming language that explores region-based memory management and borrow-checking concepts similar to those in Rust.
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E.
Smalltalk
Smalltalk is an influential object-oriented, dynamically typed programming language and environment known for pioneering many concepts in modern software development, including graphical user interfaces and integrated development environments.
- 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: TinyScheme Target entity description: TinyScheme is a lightweight, embeddable implementation of the Scheme programming language designed for easy integration into applications.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
UCSD p-System
UCSD p-System is a portable operating system and programming environment based on the Pascal language and p-code virtual machine, widely used in the late 1970s and early 1980s across multiple hardware platforms.
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D.
Vale programming language
Vale is a memory-safe, performance-focused systems programming language that explores region-based memory management and borrow-checking concepts similar to those in Rust.
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E.
Smalltalk
Smalltalk is an influential object-oriented, dynamically typed programming language and environment known for pioneering many concepts in modern software development, including graphical user interfaces and integrated development environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scheme implementation
ⓘ
software library ⓘ |
| category |
embeddable scripting engine
ⓘ
lightweight interpreter ⓘ |
| conformsTo |
Scheme standard R5RS (largely)
ⓘ
linked to:
Scheme R5RS
|
| designedFor |
easy integration
ⓘ
embedding in applications ⓘ lightweight scripting ⓘ |
| distributionForm | source code ⓘ |
| documentation | online manual ⓘ |
| executionModel | bytecode-free interpreter ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
FFI-style embedding API
ⓘ
continuations (call/cc) ⓘ dynamic typing ⓘ first-class procedures ⓘ garbage collection ⓘ lexical scoping ⓘ numeric tower subset ⓘ port-based I/O ⓘ tail call optimization ⓘ |
| implementationLanguage | C ⓘ |
| implementsStandard |
R5RS Scheme
ⓘ
linked to:
Scheme R5RS
|
| inspiredBy | MiniScheme ⓘ |
| license | BSD-style license ⓘ |
| memoryCharacteristic | low memory footprint ⓘ |
| paradigm |
functional programming
ⓘ
procedural programming ⓘ |
| platform | cross-platform ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Scheme ⓘ |
| sizeCharacteristic | small code base ⓘ |
| supports |
closures
ⓘ
list processing ⓘ macros ⓘ proper tail recursion ⓘ recursion ⓘ |
| typicalEmbeddingLanguage | C applications ⓘ |
| useCase |
configuration scripting
ⓘ
educational Scheme interpreter ⓘ extension language for applications ⓘ |
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: TinyScheme Description of subject: TinyScheme is a lightweight, embeddable implementation of the Scheme programming language designed for easy integration into applications.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.