Perl community
E255513
The Perl community is a global, collaborative network of programmers, users, and contributors who develop, maintain, and support the Perl programming language and its ecosystem.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Perl community canonical | 6 |
| Perl community discussions | 1 |
| Perl programming community | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2313632 — 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: Perl community Context triple: [Larry Wall, associatedWith, Perl community]
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A.
Python community
The Python community is the global network of developers, users, and contributors who collaboratively build, maintain, and advance the Python programming language and its ecosystem.
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B.
Python Consortium
The Python Consortium was an early industry-backed organization that coordinated corporate support and development for the Python programming language before its role was taken over by the Python Software Foundation.
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C.
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose programming language known for its powerful text-processing capabilities and use in system administration, web development, and scripting.
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D.
Python Software Foundation
The Python Software Foundation is a non-profit organization that manages the development, licensing, and community support of the Python programming language.
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E.
Fedora community
The Fedora community is a global, volunteer-driven group that collaborates to develop, maintain, and promote the Fedora Linux distribution and its related open source projects.
- 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: Perl community Target entity description: The Perl community is a global, collaborative network of programmers, users, and contributors who develop, maintain, and support the Perl programming language and its ecosystem.
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A.
Python community
The Python community is the global network of developers, users, and contributors who collaboratively build, maintain, and advance the Python programming language and its ecosystem.
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B.
Python Consortium
The Python Consortium was an early industry-backed organization that coordinated corporate support and development for the Python programming language before its role was taken over by the Python Software Foundation.
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C.
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose programming language known for its powerful text-processing capabilities and use in system administration, web development, and scripting.
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D.
Python Software Foundation
The Python Software Foundation is a non-profit organization that manages the development, licensing, and community support of the Python programming language.
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E.
Fedora community
The Fedora community is a global, volunteer-driven group that collaborates to develop, maintain, and promote the Fedora Linux distribution and its related open source projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
open source community
ⓘ
programming language user community ⓘ software development community ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Perl ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
CPAN authors
ⓘ
Perl Mongers groups ⓘ
linked to:
Perl Mongers
The Perl Foundation ⓘ |
| communicatesVia |
GitHub
ⓘ
IRC channels ⓘ blogs ⓘ mailing lists ⓘ social media ⓘ web forums ⓘ |
| contributesTo |
CPAN modules
ⓘ
Perl conferences ⓘ Perl core development ⓘ Perl documentation projects ⓘ Perl testing infrastructure ⓘ |
| engagesIn |
bug fixing
ⓘ
bug reporting ⓘ code review ⓘ mentoring ⓘ open source contribution ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Perl 5
ⓘ
linked to:
Perl
Perl programming language ⓘ
linked to:
Perl
Raku ⓘ |
| governingBody | The Perl Foundation ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
collaborative
ⓘ
distributed ⓘ global ⓘ online ⓘ open ⓘ volunteer-driven ⓘ |
| hasSubCommunity |
CPAN authors community
ⓘ
Perl 5 porters ⓘ Perl Mongers ⓘ Raku community ⓘ |
| maintains |
CPAN Testers
ⓘ
MetaCPAN ⓘ
linked to:
CPAN
Perl core distribution ⓘ perldoc documentation ⓘ |
| organizes |
The Perl Conference
ⓘ
YAPC conferences ⓘ hackathons ⓘ local user group meetings ⓘ workshops ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | Perl ⓘ |
| promotes |
best practices in Perl programming
ⓘ
use of Perl ⓘ |
| supports |
CPAN
ⓘ
Perl documentation ⓘ Perl ecosystem ⓘ
linked to:
CPAN
Perl education ⓘ Perl modules ⓘ Perl tooling ⓘ |
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: Perl community Description of subject: The Perl community is a global, collaborative network of programmers, users, and contributors who develop, maintain, and support the Perl programming language and its ecosystem.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Perl community
linked to: Perl community