Parrot virtual machine
E554891
bytecode interpreter
dynamic language runtime
free and open-source software
register-based virtual machine
virtual machine
Parrot virtual machine is a now-discontinued register-based virtual machine designed to efficiently run dynamic programming languages, originally developed for the Perl 6 (Raku) project.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Parrot Assembly Language (PASL/PASM) | 1 |
| Parrot Intermediate Representation (PIR) | 1 |
| Parrot JIT subsystem | 1 |
| Parrot Opcode Library | 1 |
| Parrot virtual machine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5924240 — 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: Parrot virtual machine Context triple: [Artistic License 2.0, usedBy, Parrot virtual machine]
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A.
BEAM virtual machine
The BEAM virtual machine is the runtime environment originally built for Erlang that powers highly concurrent, fault-tolerant, and distributed applications, and is also used by languages like Elixir.
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B.
UCSD p-System
UCSD p-System is a portable operating system and programming environment based on the Pascal language and p-code virtual machine, widely used in the late 1970s and early 1980s across multiple hardware platforms.
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C.
Vale programming language
Vale is a memory-safe, performance-focused systems programming language that explores region-based memory management and borrow-checking concepts similar to those in Rust.
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D.
Java Virtual Machine
The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is a platform-independent runtime environment that executes compiled Java bytecode and enables languages like Java, Kotlin, and Groovy to run on diverse hardware and operating systems.
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E.
RPL programming language
RPL is a stack-based, reverse Polish Lisp-like programming language developed by Hewlett-Packard for its graphing calculators, combining features of RPN and structured programming.
- 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: Parrot virtual machine Target entity description: Parrot virtual machine is a now-discontinued register-based virtual machine designed to efficiently run dynamic programming languages, originally developed for the Perl 6 (Raku) project.
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A.
BEAM virtual machine
The BEAM virtual machine is the runtime environment originally built for Erlang that powers highly concurrent, fault-tolerant, and distributed applications, and is also used by languages like Elixir.
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B.
UCSD p-System
UCSD p-System is a portable operating system and programming environment based on the Pascal language and p-code virtual machine, widely used in the late 1970s and early 1980s across multiple hardware platforms.
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C.
Vale programming language
Vale is a memory-safe, performance-focused systems programming language that explores region-based memory management and borrow-checking concepts similar to those in Rust.
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D.
Java Virtual Machine
The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is a platform-independent runtime environment that executes compiled Java bytecode and enables languages like Java, Kotlin, and Groovy to run on diverse hardware and operating systems.
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E.
RPL programming language
RPL is a stack-based, reverse Polish Lisp-like programming language developed by Hewlett-Packard for its graphing calculators, combining features of RPN and structured programming.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bytecode interpreter
ⓘ
dynamic language runtime ⓘ free and open-source software ⓘ register-based virtual machine ⓘ virtual machine ⓘ |
| associatedWithCommunity | Perl community ⓘ |
| associatedWithProject | Perl 6 development ⓘ |
| designedFor | dynamic programming languages ⓘ |
| developmentStarted | early 2000s ⓘ |
| developmentStatus | discontinued ⓘ |
| executionModel | register-based ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Parrot Assembly Language (PASL/PASM)
ⓘ
linked to:
Parrot virtual machine
Parrot Compiler Toolkit (PCT) ⓘ Parrot Intermediate Representation (PIR) ⓘ
linked to:
Parrot virtual machine
Parrot JIT subsystem ⓘ
linked to:
Parrot virtual machine
Parrot Opcode Library ⓘ
linked to:
Parrot virtual machine
Parrot bytecode ⓘ Parrot embedding API ⓘ Parrot extension mechanism ⓘ Parrot garbage collector ⓘ Parrot packfile format ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
PMC (Parrot Magic Cookie) objects
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dynamic opcode loading ⓘ embedding in host applications ⓘ extensible type system ⓘ multiple garbage collection strategies ⓘ pluggable run cores ⓘ portable bytecode format ⓘ |
| influenced | MoarVM ⓘ |
| license | Artistic License 2.0 ⓘ |
| nameOrigin | named after the parrot in "Programming Perl" book jokes ⓘ |
| originallyDevelopedFor |
Perl 6
ⓘ
linked to:
Perl 6 project
Raku ⓘ |
| repositoryHost | GitHub (historically also Subversion and other hosts) ⓘ |
| stableReleaseStatus | no longer actively maintained ⓘ |
| supports |
bytecode execution
ⓘ
closures ⓘ continuations ⓘ coroutines ⓘ exceptions ⓘ foreign function interface ⓘ garbage collection ⓘ just-in-time compilation ⓘ lexical scoping ⓘ multiple dispatch ⓘ object-oriented programming ⓘ threads ⓘ |
| supportsLanguage |
JavaScript (via various experimental projects)
ⓘ
linked to:
JavaScript
PHP (via Pipp and other projects) ⓘ Perl 5 (via projects such as Ponie) ⓘ Perl 6 ⓘ
linked to:
Perl 6 project
Python (via Pynie and other projects) ⓘ
linked to:
Python
Raku ⓘ Ruby (via Cardinal and other projects) ⓘ
linked to:
Ruby (programming language)
|
| targetPlatform | cross-platform ⓘ |
| writtenInLanguage | C ⓘ |
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: Parrot virtual machine Description of subject: Parrot virtual machine is a now-discontinued register-based virtual machine designed to efficiently run dynamic programming languages, originally developed for the Perl 6 (Raku) project.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Parrot virtual machine
linked to: Parrot virtual machine
linked to: Parrot virtual machine
linked to: Parrot virtual machine