ECMA-335
E183341
ECMA-335 is the international standard that defines the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), including the core runtime, type system, and metadata used by .NET languages.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1612333 — 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: ECMA-335 Context triple: [Common Language Runtime, usesSpecification, ECMA-335]
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A.
ECMA-376
ECMA-376 is the ECMA International standard that defines the Office Open XML file formats used by Microsoft Office and other productivity applications.
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B.
ECMA-334
ECMA-334 is the ECMA International standard that formally defines the C# programming language specification.
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C.
Common Language Runtime
The Common Language Runtime is the virtual machine component of Microsoft's .NET platform that manages code execution, memory, security, and other runtime services for .NET applications.
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D.
Common Type System
The Common Type System is a core component of the .NET architecture that defines how data types are declared, used, and managed across different .NET languages to ensure interoperability and type safety.
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E.
.NET Framework
The .NET Framework is a Windows-based software development platform and runtime environment that provides a large class library and supports multiple programming languages for building and running applications.
- 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: ECMA-335 Target entity description: ECMA-335 is the international standard that defines the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), including the core runtime, type system, and metadata used by .NET languages.
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A.
ECMA-376
ECMA-376 is the ECMA International standard that defines the Office Open XML file formats used by Microsoft Office and other productivity applications.
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B.
Microsoft Intermediate Language
Microsoft Intermediate Language is the low-level, platform-independent bytecode used by the .NET Framework’s Common Language Runtime as the compilation target for .NET languages before just-in-time compilation to native machine code.
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C.
ECMA-334
ECMA-334 is the ECMA International standard that formally defines the C# programming language specification.
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D.
Common Language Runtime
The Common Language Runtime is the virtual machine component of Microsoft's .NET platform that manages code execution, memory, security, and other runtime services for .NET applications.
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E.
ECMA (as part of Common Language Infrastructure)
ECMA (as part of the Common Language Infrastructure) is the international standards body that formalized key .NET technologies, including languages like Visual Basic .NET, to ensure interoperability and cross-platform consistency.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Common Language Infrastructure specification
ⓘ
ECMA standard ⓘ technical standard ⓘ |
| appliesTo | managed code ⓘ |
| defines |
CIL instruction set
ⓘ
linked to:
Microsoft Intermediate Language
CLI execution model ⓘ CLI file formats ⓘ CLI metadata format ⓘ CLI type system ⓘ Common Intermediate Language ⓘ
linked to:
Microsoft Intermediate Language
Common Language Infrastructure ⓘ common language specification ⓘ
linked to:
Common Language Specification
common type system ⓘ virtual execution system ⓘ |
| enables |
cross-language integration
ⓘ
versioning of assemblies ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
Common Language Infrastructure (CLI)
ⓘ
linked to:
Common Language Infrastructure
|
| includes |
partition I
ⓘ
partition II ⓘ partition III ⓘ partition IV ⓘ partition V ⓘ |
| languageNeutral | true ⓘ |
| partitionIContent | architecture ⓘ |
| partitionIIContent | metadata definition and semantics ⓘ |
| partitionIIIContent |
CIL instruction set
ⓘ
linked to:
Microsoft Intermediate Language
|
| partitionIVContent | profiles and libraries ⓘ |
| partitionVContent | annexes ⓘ |
| relatedTo | ISO/IEC 23271 ⓘ |
| scope |
.NET languages
ⓘ
language interoperability ⓘ managed execution environments ⓘ |
| specifies |
CLI assemblies
ⓘ
linked to:
CLI
CLI calling conventions ⓘ CLI custom attributes ⓘ CLI exception handling model ⓘ CLI generics ⓘ CLI metadata tables ⓘ CLI modules ⓘ CLI security model ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
Ecma International
ⓘ
linked to:
ECMA International
|
| supports |
garbage-collected execution
ⓘ
multi-language interoperability ⓘ type safety ⓘ |
| usedBy |
.NET 5 and later
ⓘ
linked to:
.NET 5
.NET Core ⓘ .NET Framework ⓘ Mono ⓘ Unity runtime ⓘ Xamarin ⓘ |
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: ECMA-335 Description of subject: ECMA-335 is the international standard that defines the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), including the core runtime, type system, and metadata used by .NET languages.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: ECMA-335
subject linked to:
CLS
linked to: ECMA-335
linked to: ECMA-335
subject linked to:
CLI
subject linked to:
CLI
linked to: ECMA-335
linked to: ECMA-335
linked to: ECMA-335
linked to: ECMA-335
linked to: ECMA-335
subject linked to:
ECMA (as part of Common Language Infrastructure)
subject linked to:
ECMA (as part of Common Language Infrastructure)
linked to: ECMA-335
subject linked to:
VES
linked to: ECMA-335