JavaScript: The Good Parts
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JavaScript: The Good Parts is a highly influential programming book by Douglas Crockford that distills JavaScript into its most reliable and elegant features, shaping how many developers understand and use the language.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| JavaScript: The Good Parts canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8756050 — 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: JavaScript: The Good Parts Context triple: [Douglas Crockford, knownFor, JavaScript: The Good Parts]
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A.
The Pragmatic Programmer
The Pragmatic Programmer is a highly influential software development book that offers practical advice, best practices, and philosophical guidance for writing maintainable, high-quality code and growing as a professional programmer.
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B.
The Elements of Programming Style
The Elements of Programming Style is a classic software engineering book that promotes clear, concise, and readable code through practical examples and principles.
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C.
The Practice of Programming
The Practice of Programming is a widely respected book by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike that teaches practical software development techniques, emphasizing clear code, debugging, testing, and performance.
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D.
The Clean Coder
The Clean Coder is a professional guide by Robert C. Martin that focuses on the ethics, discipline, and practices of being a responsible and effective software developer.
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E.
The Well-Grounded Rubyist
The Well-Grounded Rubyist is a widely respected programming book that provides a clear, thorough introduction to the Ruby language and its idioms for both new and experienced developers.
- 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: JavaScript: The Good Parts Target entity description: JavaScript: The Good Parts is a highly influential programming book by Douglas Crockford that distills JavaScript into its most reliable and elegant features, shaping how many developers understand and use the language.
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A.
The Pragmatic Programmer
The Pragmatic Programmer is a highly influential software development book that offers practical advice, best practices, and philosophical guidance for writing maintainable, high-quality code and growing as a professional programmer.
-
B.
The Elements of Programming Style
The Elements of Programming Style is a classic software engineering book that promotes clear, concise, and readable code through practical examples and principles.
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C.
The Practice of Programming
The Practice of Programming is a widely respected book by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike that teaches practical software development techniques, emphasizing clear code, debugging, testing, and performance.
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D.
The Clean Coder
The Clean Coder is a professional guide by Robert C. Martin that focuses on the ethics, discipline, and practices of being a responsible and effective software developer.
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E.
The Well-Grounded Rubyist
The Well-Grounded Rubyist is a widely respected programming book that provides a clear, thorough introduction to the Ruby language and its idioms for both new and experienced developers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
programming book ⓘ |
| aimsTo | distill JavaScript into a smaller, better-defined language subset ⓘ |
| author | Douglas Crockford ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| covers |
JavaScript objects
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JavaScript syntax ⓘ arrays ⓘ beautiful features of JavaScript ⓘ functions ⓘ inheritance ⓘ methods ⓘ regular expressions ⓘ style ⓘ |
| criticizes | problematic features of JavaScript ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
prototypal inheritance
ⓘ
use of functions as first-class objects ⓘ use of objects in JavaScript ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
core features of JavaScript
ⓘ
elegant features of JavaScript ⓘ reliable features of JavaScript ⓘ |
| format |
ebook
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| hasReputationFor |
being concise
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being highly influential in the JavaScript community ⓘ being opinionated ⓘ |
| influenced |
JavaScript best practices
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JavaScript programming style ⓘ front-end web development practices ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Douglas Crockford's work on JSON ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| popularAmong |
JavaScript developers
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web developers ⓘ |
| publisher | O'Reilly Media ⓘ |
| recommends | avoiding JavaScript's bad parts ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Douglas Crockford's talks on JavaScript
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JSON: The JavaScript Object Notation ⓘ
linked to:
JSON
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| subject |
JavaScript
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computer programming ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
experienced programmers learning JavaScript
ⓘ
intermediate JavaScript developers ⓘ |
| teaches |
JavaScript language design principles
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functional programming patterns in JavaScript ⓘ object-oriented patterns in JavaScript ⓘ |
| usedAs |
reference for JavaScript best practices
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teaching material in programming courses ⓘ |
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: JavaScript: The Good Parts Description of subject: JavaScript: The Good Parts is a highly influential programming book by Douglas Crockford that distills JavaScript into its most reliable and elegant features, shaping how many developers understand and use the language.
Referenced by (6)
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