CBASIC
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CBASIC is an early commercial implementation of the BASIC programming language, widely used on microcomputers in the late 1970s and early 1980s for business and application development.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CBASIC canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8118297 — 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: CBASIC Context triple: [Digital Research, Inc., developed, CBASIC]
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A.
Microsoft BASIC
Microsoft BASIC is a family of early, widely distributed implementations of the BASIC programming language created by Microsoft for microcomputers in the 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
GW-BASIC
GW-BASIC is an early Microsoft dialect of the BASIC programming language, widely used on DOS systems in the 1980s for learning programming and creating simple applications and games.
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C.
BASICs
BASICs are the key safety performance measures used by the U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to evaluate and monitor motor carriers and drivers under its Compliance, Safety, Accountability program.
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D.
QuickBASIC
QuickBASIC is an integrated development environment and compiler for the BASIC programming language created by Microsoft, popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s for learning programming and developing DOS applications.
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E.
BBC BASIC
BBC BASIC is a variant of the BASIC programming language developed by Acorn Computers in the early 1980s, notable for its speed, structured programming features, and widespread use on BBC Micro computers in UK education.
- 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: CBASIC Target entity description: CBASIC is an early commercial implementation of the BASIC programming language, widely used on microcomputers in the late 1970s and early 1980s for business and application development.
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A.
Microsoft BASIC
Microsoft BASIC is a family of early, widely distributed implementations of the BASIC programming language created by Microsoft for microcomputers in the 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
GW-BASIC
GW-BASIC is an early Microsoft dialect of the BASIC programming language, widely used on DOS systems in the 1980s for learning programming and creating simple applications and games.
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C.
BASICs
BASICs are the key safety performance measures used by the U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to evaluate and monitor motor carriers and drivers under its Compliance, Safety, Accountability program.
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D.
QuickBASIC
QuickBASIC is an integrated development environment and compiler for the BASIC programming language created by Microsoft, popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s for learning programming and developing DOS applications.
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E.
BBC BASIC
BBC BASIC is a variant of the BASIC programming language developed by Acorn Computers in the early 1980s, notable for its speed, structured programming features, and widespread use on BBC Micro computers in UK education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
BASIC dialect
ⓘ
commercial software product ⓘ programming language implementation ⓘ |
| basedOn | BASIC programming language ⓘ |
| concurrentWith |
MBASIC
ⓘ
linked to:
Microsoft BASIC
Microsoft BASIC ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| designedFor |
business data processing
ⓘ
commercial microcomputer software ⓘ |
| developer | Digital Research ⓘ |
| distributionModel | commercial distribution ⓘ |
| documentationLanguage | English ⓘ |
| executionModel | compile-and-run via runtime module ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
one of the earliest widely used commercial BASICs for microcomputers
ⓘ
popular choice for CP/M business software ⓘ |
| influenced | later Digital Research language products ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Dartmouth BASIC ⓘ |
| license | proprietary software license ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
compiled BASIC implementation
ⓘ
file-handling capabilities ⓘ fixed-point arithmetic support ⓘ relative and random file access ⓘ separate runtime interpreter ⓘ string-handling functions ⓘ support for larger programs than many contemporaneous BASICs ⓘ |
| originalAuthor | Gordon Eubanks ⓘ |
| programmingLanguageParadigm | procedural programming ⓘ |
| supports |
disk file I/O
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numeric and string variables ⓘ structured programming constructs (limited) ⓘ user-defined functions (limited) ⓘ |
| targetOperatingSystem |
CP/M
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MP/M ⓘ |
| targetPlatform | microcomputers ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early 1980s
ⓘ
late 1970s ⓘ |
| typicalCPU |
Intel 8080
ⓘ
Zilog Z80 ⓘ |
| typicalDistributionMedium | floppy disk ⓘ |
| typicalHardware | 8-bit microcomputers ⓘ |
| useCase |
business applications
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commercial software development ⓘ general-purpose application development ⓘ |
| usedIn |
custom line-of-business applications
ⓘ
inventory management applications ⓘ small business accounting software ⓘ |
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: CBASIC Description of subject: CBASIC is an early commercial implementation of the BASIC programming language, widely used on microcomputers in the late 1970s and early 1980s for business and application development.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.