Practical Extraction and Report Language
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general-purpose programming language
high-level programming language
interpreted language
programming language
scripting language
Practical Extraction and Report Language is a high-level, general-purpose programming language known for its powerful text processing, scripting, and system administration capabilities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Practical Extraction and Report Language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4424931 — 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: Practical Extraction and Report Language Context triple: [Perl, abbreviation, Practical Extraction and Report Language]
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A.
PL/I
PL/I is a high-level programming language developed by IBM in the 1960s that combines features from scientific, business, and systems programming languages into a single, general-purpose language.
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B.
INGRES relational database system
INGRES relational database system is an influential early relational DBMS developed at the University of California, Berkeley, that pioneered many concepts and technologies later adopted by commercial database systems.
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C.
PDL
PDL is a former name for USL League Two, a North American pre-professional soccer league that serves as a key development platform for college-aged and aspiring professional players.
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D.
Backus–Naur Form
Backus–Naur Form is a formal notation used to define the syntax of programming languages and other formal grammars in a precise, structured way.
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E.
"Unix Text Processing"
"Unix Text Processing" is a classic technical book that teaches practical techniques for manipulating and formatting text on Unix systems using tools like sed, awk, and troff.
- 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: Practical Extraction and Report Language Target entity description: Practical Extraction and Report Language is a high-level, general-purpose programming language known for its powerful text processing, scripting, and system administration capabilities.
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A.
PL/I
PL/I is a high-level programming language developed by IBM in the 1960s that combines features from scientific, business, and systems programming languages into a single, general-purpose language.
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B.
INGRES relational database system
INGRES relational database system is an influential early relational DBMS developed at the University of California, Berkeley, that pioneered many concepts and technologies later adopted by commercial database systems.
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C.
PDL
PDL is a former name for USL League Two, a North American pre-professional soccer league that serves as a key development platform for college-aged and aspiring professional players.
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D.
Backus–Naur Form
Backus–Naur Form is a formal notation used to define the syntax of programming languages and other formal grammars in a precise, structured way.
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E.
"Unix Text Processing"
"Unix Text Processing" is a classic technical book that teaches practical techniques for manipulating and formatting text on Unix systems using tools like sed, awk, and troff.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
general-purpose programming language
ⓘ
high-level programming language ⓘ interpreted language ⓘ programming language ⓘ scripting language ⓘ |
| designedBy | Larry Wall ⓘ |
| developer | Larry Wall ⓘ |
| fileExtension |
.pl
ⓘ
.pm ⓘ .t ⓘ |
| firstAppeared | 1987 ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | Perl ⓘ |
| hasImplementation | perl interpreter ⓘ |
| hasMajorVersion |
Perl 4
ⓘ
linked to:
Perl
Perl 5 ⓘ
linked to:
Perl
Perl 6 ⓘ
linked to:
Perl 6 project
|
| hasSuccessor | Raku ⓘ |
| influenced |
JavaScript
ⓘ
PHP ⓘ Python ⓘ Raku ⓘ Ruby ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
C
ⓘ
Lisp ⓘ
linked to:
Lisp programming language
awk ⓘ sed ⓘ shell scripting ⓘ |
| license |
Artistic License
ⓘ
linked to:
Artistic License 2.0
GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| paradigm |
event-driven programming
ⓘ
functional programming ⓘ imperative programming ⓘ object-oriented programming ⓘ procedural programming ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | de facto community standard ⓘ |
| supports |
CGI scripting
ⓘ
Unicode ⓘ database access ⓘ network programming ⓘ regular expressions ⓘ scripting ⓘ system administration tasks ⓘ text processing ⓘ |
| typingDiscipline |
duck typing
ⓘ
dynamic typing ⓘ |
| usedFor |
data extraction
ⓘ
log file analysis ⓘ report generation ⓘ system administration automation ⓘ web development ⓘ |
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: Practical Extraction and Report Language Description of subject: Practical Extraction and Report Language is a high-level, general-purpose programming language known for its powerful text processing, scripting, and system administration capabilities.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.