Turbo Assembler (TASM)
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Turbo Assembler (TASM) is Borland's 16- and 32-bit x86 assembler, widely used in DOS-era development for its speed, macro capabilities, and tight integration with Borland's Turbo language tools.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| TASM | 2 |
| Turbo Assembler | 1 |
| Turbo Assembler (TASM) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8945839 — 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: Turbo Assembler (TASM) Context triple: [Turbo C++, includedTool, Turbo Assembler (TASM)]
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A.
Turbo Pascal
Turbo Pascal is a once-popular integrated development environment and compiler for the Pascal programming language, known for its fast compilation speed and influence on early PC software development.
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B.
Turbo C
Turbo C is an early integrated development environment and compiler for the C programming language, widely used in the late 1980s and 1990s for DOS-based software development.
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C.
Turbo Basic
Turbo Basic is an enhanced, high-speed implementation of the BASIC programming language designed for rapid development and improved performance on personal computers.
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D.
MS-DOS Executive
MS-DOS Executive is the simple file management and program-launching shell that served as the primary user interface in early versions of Microsoft Windows, notably Windows 1.0.
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E.
Turbo C++
Turbo C++ is an early integrated development environment and compiler for the C and C++ programming languages that was widely used on DOS and Windows systems in the 1990s.
- 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: Turbo Assembler (TASM) Target entity description: Turbo Assembler (TASM) is Borland's 16- and 32-bit x86 assembler, widely used in DOS-era development for its speed, macro capabilities, and tight integration with Borland's Turbo language tools.
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A.
Turbo Pascal
Turbo Pascal is a once-popular integrated development environment and compiler for the Pascal programming language, known for its fast compilation speed and influence on early PC software development.
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B.
Turbo C
Turbo C is an early integrated development environment and compiler for the C programming language, widely used in the late 1980s and 1990s for DOS-based software development.
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C.
Turbo Basic
Turbo Basic is an enhanced, high-speed implementation of the BASIC programming language designed for rapid development and improved performance on personal computers.
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D.
MS-DOS Executive
MS-DOS Executive is the simple file management and program-launching shell that served as the primary user interface in early versions of Microsoft Windows, notably Windows 1.0.
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E.
Turbo C++
Turbo C++ is an early integrated development environment and compiler for the C and C++ programming languages that was widely used on DOS and Windows systems in the 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Borland product
ⓘ
assembler ⓘ software development tool ⓘ x86 assembler ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
TASM
ⓘ
linked to:
Turbo Assembler (TASM)
|
| alsoKnownAs |
TASM
ⓘ
linked to:
Turbo Assembler (TASM)
|
| category |
assembler for x86 architecture
ⓘ
programming tool ⓘ |
| competition | Microsoft Macro Assembler ⓘ |
| developer | Borland ⓘ |
| distribution | bundled with Borland language IDEs ⓘ |
| era | DOS era ⓘ |
| feature |
conditional assembly
ⓘ
inline assembly support in Borland compilers ⓘ macro processor ⓘ structured assembly constructs ⓘ |
| fileExtension |
.ASM
ⓘ
.INC ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Borland C++
ⓘ
Turbo C ⓘ Turbo C++ ⓘ Turbo Pascal ⓘ |
| language | assembly language ⓘ |
| license | proprietary software ⓘ |
| notableFor |
high assembly speed
ⓘ
powerful macro capabilities ⓘ tight integration with Borland Turbo language tools ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
DOS
ⓘ
linked to:
MS-DOS
Microsoft Windows ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
|
| outputFormat |
EXE
ⓘ
OBJ ⓘ |
| platform | IBM PC compatible ⓘ |
| status | discontinued ⓘ |
| supports |
16-bit real mode programming
ⓘ
32-bit protected mode programming ⓘ MASM-compatible syntax ⓘ ideal mode syntax ⓘ inline debugging information for Borland tools ⓘ macro libraries ⓘ object-oriented style constructs in ideal mode ⓘ segment and memory model directives ⓘ |
| supportsBitWidth |
16-bit
ⓘ
32-bit ⓘ |
| targetArchitecture | x86 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
DOS application development
ⓘ
educational purposes in assembly language courses ⓘ low-level systems programming ⓘ |
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: Turbo Assembler (TASM) Description of subject: Turbo Assembler (TASM) is Borland's 16- and 32-bit x86 assembler, widely used in DOS-era development for its speed, macro capabilities, and tight integration with Borland's Turbo language tools.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Turbo Assembler (TASM)
linked to: Turbo Assembler (TASM)
subject linked to:
Turbo Assembler (TASM)
linked to: Turbo Assembler (TASM)
linked to: Turbo Assembler (TASM)