Visual Basic
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Visual Basic is an event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft, widely used for building Windows applications with a relatively simple, BASIC-derived syntax.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Visual Basic canonical | 20 |
| Visual Basic 6.0 | 4 |
| Visual Basic 6 | 3 |
| Integrated Visual Basic Editor | 1 |
| Microsoft Visual Basic | 1 |
| VB | 1 |
| Visual Basic (conceptually) | 1 |
| Visual Basic 6.0 IDE | 1 |
| Visual Basic to control COM servers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1610412 — 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: Visual Basic Context triple: [Visual Basic .NET, predecessor, Visual Basic]
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A.
Visual Basic .NET
Visual Basic .NET is an object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft for the .NET framework, designed to be easy to learn and tightly integrated with Windows application development.
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B.
VBA
VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) is a Microsoft event-driven programming language used primarily to automate tasks and extend functionality in Office applications like Excel and Access.
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C.
VBA
VBA is the commonly used abbreviation for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Benefits Administration, which oversees and delivers a wide range of benefits to military veterans and their families.
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D.
VBScript
VBScript is a lightweight scripting language developed by Microsoft, primarily used for client-side scripting in web pages and for automation in Windows environments.
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E.
Delphi
Delphi is an ancient Greek sanctuary and archaeological site famed for the Oracle of Apollo and its central role in classical Greek religion and culture.
- 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: Visual Basic Target entity description: Visual Basic is an event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft, widely used for building Windows applications with a relatively simple, BASIC-derived syntax.
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A.
Visual Basic .NET
Visual Basic .NET is an object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft for the .NET framework, designed to be easy to learn and tightly integrated with Windows application development.
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B.
VBA
VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) is a Microsoft event-driven programming language used primarily to automate tasks and extend functionality in Office applications like Excel and Access.
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C.
VBA
VBA is the commonly used abbreviation for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Benefits Administration, which oversees and delivers a wide range of benefits to military veterans and their families.
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D.
VBScript
VBScript is a lightweight scripting language developed by Microsoft, primarily used for client-side scripting in web pages and for automation in Windows environments.
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E.
Delphi
Delphi is an ancient Greek sanctuary and archaeological site famed for the Oracle of Apollo and its central role in classical Greek religion and culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
integrated development environment
ⓘ
programming language ⓘ programming language ⓘ programming language version ⓘ |
| designGoal |
ease of use
ⓘ
rapid application development ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| discontinued | true ⓘ |
| discontinuedBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| executionModel |
compiled to native code
ⓘ
compiled to p-code ⓘ |
| family |
BASIC family
ⓘ
linked to:
BASIC
|
| feature |
code editor
ⓘ
controls library ⓘ debugger ⓘ drag-and-drop GUI designer ⓘ event handlers ⓘ forms designer ⓘ project system ⓘ |
| fileExtension |
.bas
ⓘ
.cls ⓘ .frm ⓘ .vbp ⓘ |
| firstAppeared | 1991 ⓘ |
| IDE |
Microsoft Visual Studio
ⓘ
linked to:
Visual Studio
Visual Basic 6.0 IDE ⓘ
linked to:
Visual Basic
|
| influencedBy | BASIC ⓘ |
| latestMajorRelease |
Visual Basic 6.0
ⓘ
linked to:
Visual Basic
|
| notableFor |
large third-party component ecosystem
ⓘ
simple syntax ⓘ tight integration with Windows APIs ⓘ |
| paradigm |
component-oriented programming
ⓘ
event-driven programming ⓘ object-based programming ⓘ |
| platform |
.NET
ⓘ
linked to:
.NET Framework
.NET Core ⓘ .NET Framework ⓘ Microsoft Windows ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
|
| primaryUse |
Windows application development
ⓘ
graphical user interface applications ⓘ rapid application development ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1998 ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Visual Basic .NET ⓘ |
| supports |
ActiveX
ⓘ
COM ⓘ OLE Automation ⓘ |
| syntaxOrigin | BASIC-like syntax ⓘ |
| typingDiscipline |
implicit typing
ⓘ
static typing ⓘ unsafe typing ⓘ |
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: Visual Basic Description of subject: Visual Basic is an event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft, widely used for building Windows applications with a relatively simple, BASIC-derived syntax.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Visual Basic
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subject linked to:
Windows.Networking namespace
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linked to: Visual Basic
linked to: Visual Basic
linked to: Visual Basic
linked to: Visual Basic
subject linked to:
WIA
subject linked to:
Windows.Devices.Midi namespace
linked to: Visual Basic
linked to: Visual Basic
subject linked to:
ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
linked to: Visual Basic
linked to: Visual Basic