The New Hacker's Dictionary
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The New Hacker's Dictionary is a comprehensive lexicon and cultural guide to hacker slang, folklore, and traditions, compiled and edited by Eric S. Raymond.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The New Hacker's Dictionary canonical | 7 |
| The Jargon File | 3 |
| Jargon File | 2 |
| The Hacker’s Dictionary | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T327515 — 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: The New Hacker's Dictionary Context triple: [Eric Raymond, authored, The New Hacker's Dictionary]
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A.
Computer Lib / Dream Machines
Computer Lib / Dream Machines is a pioneering 1974 book by Ted Nelson that passionately advocates for personal computing, hypertext, and user empowerment in the digital age.
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B.
The GNU Manifesto
The GNU Manifesto is Richard Stallman’s foundational essay outlining the philosophy, goals, and rationale for the free software movement and the GNU Project.
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C.
The Pragmatic Programmer
The Pragmatic Programmer is a highly influential software development book that offers practical advice, best practices, and philosophical guidance for writing maintainable, high-quality code and growing as a professional programmer.
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D.
Programming Pearls
Programming Pearls is a classic computer science book by Jon Bentley that teaches practical problem-solving, algorithm design, and programming techniques through engaging essays and puzzles.
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E.
The Mythical Man-Month
The Mythical Man-Month is a classic software engineering book by Fred Brooks that explores the challenges of large-scale software projects and famously argues that adding manpower to a late project makes it later.
- 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: The New Hacker's Dictionary Target entity description: The New Hacker's Dictionary is a comprehensive lexicon and cultural guide to hacker slang, folklore, and traditions, compiled and edited by Eric S. Raymond.
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A.
Computer Lib / Dream Machines
Computer Lib / Dream Machines is a pioneering 1974 book by Ted Nelson that passionately advocates for personal computing, hypertext, and user empowerment in the digital age.
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B.
The GNU Manifesto
The GNU Manifesto is Richard Stallman’s foundational essay outlining the philosophy, goals, and rationale for the free software movement and the GNU Project.
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C.
The Pragmatic Programmer
The Pragmatic Programmer is a highly influential software development book that offers practical advice, best practices, and philosophical guidance for writing maintainable, high-quality code and growing as a professional programmer.
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D.
Programming Pearls
Programming Pearls is a classic computer science book by Jon Bentley that teaches practical problem-solving, algorithm design, and programming techniques through engaging essays and puzzles.
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E.
The Mythical Man-Month
The Mythical Man-Month is a classic software engineering book by Fred Brooks that explores the challenges of large-scale software projects and famously argues that adding manpower to a late project makes it later.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
glossary ⓘ lexicon ⓘ reference work ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Jargon File
ⓘ
linked to:
The New Hacker's Dictionary
|
| compiler |
Eric S. Raymond
ⓘ
linked to:
Eric Raymond
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| describes |
hacker etiquette
ⓘ
hacker folklore ⓘ hacker humor ⓘ hacker traditions ⓘ |
| editor |
Eric S. Raymond
ⓘ
linked to:
Eric Raymond
|
| editorRole | Eric S. Raymond as maintainer of the Jargon File ⓘ |
| genre |
computer culture
ⓘ
hacker culture ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | TNHD ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
first edition
ⓘ
second edition ⓘ third edition ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
hardcover
ⓘ
paperback ⓘ |
| hasPart |
cultural commentary
ⓘ
glossary of terms ⓘ historical notes ⓘ usage examples ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType |
book
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| notableEditionYear |
1993
ⓘ
1996 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
documenting hacker slang
ⓘ
preserving early Internet folklore ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| publisher | MIT Press ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
The Jargon File
ⓘ
linked to:
The New Hacker's Dictionary
|
| subject |
computer jargon
ⓘ
hacker slang ⓘ programmer culture ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
computer enthusiasts
ⓘ
hackers ⓘ programmers ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed | 1960s–1990s hacker culture ⓘ |
| topic |
Internet culture
ⓘ
Unix culture ⓘ software development culture ⓘ |
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: The New Hacker's Dictionary Description of subject: The New Hacker's Dictionary is a comprehensive lexicon and cultural guide to hacker slang, folklore, and traditions, compiled and edited by Eric S. Raymond.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.