Bitcoin Script
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Bitcoin Script is Bitcoin’s low-level, stack-based programming language used to define the conditions under which bitcoins can be spent.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bitcoin Script canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7899360 — 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: Bitcoin Script Context triple: [P2PKH, scriptLanguage, Bitcoin Script]
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A.
P2PKH
P2PKH (Pay-to-PubKey-Hash) is a common Bitcoin transaction output type where funds are locked to the hash of a public key and can be spent by presenting the corresponding public key and a valid digital signature.
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B.
Bitcoin Core
Bitcoin Core is the open-source software implementation that serves as the primary full node and wallet for the Bitcoin network, maintaining the blockchain and enforcing consensus rules.
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C.
BitC
BitC is a systems programming language designed for safety, low-level control, and formal verification, drawing on ideas from Modula-3 and capability-based security.
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D.
Segregated Witness
Segregated Witness is a Bitcoin protocol upgrade that separates signature data from transaction data to increase block capacity, improve scalability, and fix transaction malleability.
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E.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin is a decentralized digital cryptocurrency that operates without a central bank, enabling peer-to-peer transactions secured by blockchain technology.
- 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: Bitcoin Script Target entity description: Bitcoin Script is Bitcoin’s low-level, stack-based programming language used to define the conditions under which bitcoins can be spent.
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A.
P2PKH
P2PKH (Pay-to-PubKey-Hash) is a common Bitcoin transaction output type where funds are locked to the hash of a public key and can be spent by presenting the corresponding public key and a valid digital signature.
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B.
Bitcoin Core
Bitcoin Core is the open-source software implementation that serves as the primary full node and wallet for the Bitcoin network, maintaining the blockchain and enforcing consensus rules.
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C.
BitC
BitC is a systems programming language designed for safety, low-level control, and formal verification, drawing on ideas from Modula-3 and capability-based security.
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D.
Segregated Witness
Segregated Witness is a Bitcoin protocol upgrade that separates signature data from transaction data to increase block capacity, improve scalability, and fix transaction malleability.
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E.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin is a decentralized digital cryptocurrency that operates without a central bank, enabling peer-to-peer transactions secured by blockchain technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bitcoin technology component
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programming language ⓘ stack-based language ⓘ |
| definedIn | Bitcoin protocol specification ⓘ |
| designGoal |
deterministic execution
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predictability ⓘ resource boundedness ⓘ security ⓘ |
| evaluationContext | Bitcoin node script interpreter ⓘ |
| executionModel | stack-based ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
scriptPubKey
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scriptSig ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
forward-only evaluation
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limited instruction set ⓘ no loops ⓘ no unbounded recursion ⓘ non-interactive validation ⓘ stateless execution per transaction input ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Forth ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Satoshi Nakamoto ⓘ |
| introducedWith | Bitcoin genesis release ⓘ |
| languageParadigm | concatenative ⓘ |
| operatesOn |
Bitcoin transaction inputs
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Bitcoin transaction outputs ⓘ |
| primaryUse | define spending conditions for bitcoins ⓘ |
| securityProperty |
consensus-critical behavior
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deterministic validation across nodes ⓘ |
| supports |
CHECKMULTISIG operation
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CHECKSIG operation ⓘ OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY ⓘ OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY ⓘ OP_RETURN ⓘ Taproot scripts ⓘ hash locks ⓘ locking scripts ⓘ multisignature conditions ⓘ pay-to-public-key (P2PK) ⓘ pay-to-public-key-hash (P2PKH) ⓘ
linked to:
P2PKH
pay-to-script-hash (P2SH) ⓘ pay-to-witness-public-key-hash (P2WPKH) ⓘ pay-to-witness-script-hash (P2WSH) ⓘ time locks ⓘ unlocking scripts ⓘ |
| turingCompleteness | not Turing-complete ⓘ |
| usedFor |
atomic swaps
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escrow-like conditions ⓘ payment channels ⓘ smart contract primitives on Bitcoin ⓘ |
| usedIn | Bitcoin ⓘ |
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: Bitcoin Script Description of subject: Bitcoin Script is Bitcoin’s low-level, stack-based programming language used to define the conditions under which bitcoins can be spent.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Pay-to-Witness-Script-Hash (P2WSH)