Arc
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Arc is a minimalist dialect of the Lisp programming language designed by Paul Graham and Robert Morris to explore new ideas in language design and rapid prototyping.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arc canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4416678 — 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: Arc Context triple: [Lisp, influenced, Arc]
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A.
Arcop
Arcop was a prominent Canadian architectural firm known for its modernist designs and major cultural and institutional projects across Canada.
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ARC
ARC is a family of configurable 32-bit RISC processor architectures commonly used in embedded and SoC designs.
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C.
ARC
ARC is the commonly used acronym for the Augmentation Research Center, a pioneering research group known for its early work on interactive computing and human–computer interaction.
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D.
Arc Whip
Arc Whip is an electrified, whip-like melee weapon used by the Jaeger Guardian Bravo in the Pacific Rim universe to deliver powerful close-range attacks.
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E.
Axis
Axis refers to the World War II military coalition of Germany, Italy, Japan, and their allies that opposed the Allied powers.
- 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: Arc Target entity description: Arc is a minimalist dialect of the Lisp programming language designed by Paul Graham and Robert Morris to explore new ideas in language design and rapid prototyping.
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A.
Arcop
Arcop was a prominent Canadian architectural firm known for its modernist designs and major cultural and institutional projects across Canada.
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B.
ARC
ARC is a family of configurable 32-bit RISC processor architectures commonly used in embedded and SoC designs.
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C.
ARC
ARC is the commonly used acronym for the Augmentation Research Center, a pioneering research group known for its early work on interactive computing and human–computer interaction.
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D.
Arc Whip
Arc Whip is an electrified, whip-like melee weapon used by the Jaeger Guardian Bravo in the Pacific Rim universe to deliver powerful close-range attacks.
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E.
Axis
Axis refers to the World War II military coalition of Germany, Italy, Japan, and their allies that opposed the Allied powers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Lisp dialect
ⓘ
programming language ⓘ |
| designedBy |
Paul Graham
ⓘ
Robert Morris ⓘ |
| designPhilosophy |
minimalism
ⓘ
pragmatism ⓘ succinctness ⓘ |
| distributionModel | open source ⓘ |
| documentationStyle | informal essays and examples ⓘ |
| evaluationStrategy | eager evaluation ⓘ |
| fileExtension | .arc ⓘ |
| goal |
explore new ideas in language design
ⓘ
support rapid prototyping ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
automatic memory management
ⓘ
garbage collection ⓘ lightweight syntax ⓘ list-centric data structures ⓘ powerful macro system ⓘ |
| hasNotableUser |
Paul Graham
ⓘ
Y Combinator (internal tools) ⓘ
linked to:
Y Combinator
|
| implementationLanguage | Racket ⓘ |
| influenced |
Clojure (to a limited conceptual extent)
ⓘ
linked to:
Clojure
|
| influencedBy |
Common Lisp
ⓘ
Lisp ⓘ
linked to:
Lisp programming language
Scheme ⓘ |
| license | open-source license ⓘ |
| macroSystem | hygienic macros via Racket ⓘ |
| notableFor | concise web application development ⓘ |
| programmingParadigm |
functional programming
ⓘ
multi-paradigm ⓘ procedural programming ⓘ |
| releaseStatus | experimental ⓘ |
| repository | https://github.com/arclanguage ⓘ |
| runsOn | Racket ⓘ |
| standardLibrary | small core library ⓘ |
| supports |
closures
ⓘ
first-class functions ⓘ homoiconicity ⓘ interactive REPL ⓘ macros ⓘ metaprogramming ⓘ symbolic computation ⓘ |
| targetUser |
hackers interested in Lisp
ⓘ
language designers ⓘ |
| typingDiscipline | dynamic typing ⓘ |
| usedFor |
experimental language research
ⓘ
web application prototyping ⓘ |
| website | http://arclanguage.org ⓘ |
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: Arc Description of subject: Arc is a minimalist dialect of the Lisp programming language designed by Paul Graham and Robert Morris to explore new ideas in language design and rapid prototyping.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lisp programming language