Lua
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Lua is a lightweight, embeddable scripting language widely used for game development, configuration, and extending applications.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lua canonical | 15 |
| Lua (through prototype ideas) | 1 |
| Lua (via LuaJIT experimental backends) | 1 |
| LuaTeX | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T805105 — 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: Lua Context triple: [Codex, supportsLanguage, Lua]
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A.
Elm
Elm is a civil parish and village in Cambridgeshire, England, known for its rural character and historic church.
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B.
Elm
Elm is a statically typed, functional programming language that compiles to JavaScript and is designed for building reliable, maintainable web front-end applications.
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C.
Julia
Julia is a high-level, high-performance programming language designed for numerical computing, data science, and scientific research, combining the ease of dynamic languages with the speed of compiled languages.
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D.
Julia
Julia is a feminine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in many languages and cultures.
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E.
GML
GML (Geography Markup Language) is an XML-based standard developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium for modeling, transporting, and storing geographic information and spatial features.
- 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: Lua Target entity description: Lua is a lightweight, embeddable scripting language widely used for game development, configuration, and extending applications.
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A.
Elm
Elm is a civil parish and village in Cambridgeshire, England, known for its rural character and historic church.
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B.
Elm
Elm is a statically typed, functional programming language that compiles to JavaScript and is designed for building reliable, maintainable web front-end applications.
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C.
Julia
Julia is a high-level, high-performance programming language designed for numerical computing, data science, and scientific research, combining the ease of dynamic languages with the speed of compiled languages.
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D.
Julia
Julia is a feminine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in many languages and cultures.
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E.
GML
GML (Geography Markup Language) is an XML-based standard developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium for modeling, transporting, and storing geographic information and spatial features.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
embeddable scripting language
ⓘ
programming language ⓘ scripting language ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Brazil ⓘ |
| designedBy |
Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
ⓘ
Roberto Ierusalimschy ⓘ Waldemar Celes ⓘ |
| designGoal |
efficiency
ⓘ
extensibility ⓘ portability ⓘ small footprint ⓘ |
| developer |
PUC-Rio
ⓘ
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro ⓘ |
| fileExtension | .lua ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
automatic memory management
ⓘ
coroutines ⓘ first-class functions ⓘ garbage collection ⓘ metatables ⓘ tables as primary data structure ⓘ tail call optimization ⓘ |
| implementationLanguage | C ⓘ |
| inception | 1993 ⓘ |
| influenced |
Garry's Mod Lua
ⓘ
LuaJIT ⓘ Moonscript ⓘ Tarantool Lua ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
DEL
ⓘ
Modula ⓘ SNOBOL ⓘ SOL ⓘ
linked to:
Sol
Scheme ⓘ |
| license | MIT License ⓘ |
| paradigm |
functional programming language
ⓘ
imperative programming language ⓘ procedural programming language ⓘ prototype-based programming language ⓘ |
| standardImplementation | Puc-Rio Lua ⓘ |
| supports | embedding in C and C++ applications ⓘ |
| typingDiscipline |
duck typing
ⓘ
dynamic typing ⓘ |
| useCase |
application scripting
ⓘ
configuration ⓘ embedded systems ⓘ game development ⓘ server-side scripting ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Garry's Mod
ⓘ
Nginx (via OpenResty) ⓘ
linked to:
nginx
Redis scripting ⓘ
linked to:
Redis
Roblox (via a dialect, Luau) ⓘ Wireshark dissectors ⓘ World of Warcraft addons ⓘ
linked to:
World of Warcraft
|
| website | https://www.lua.org/ ⓘ |
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: Lua Description of subject: Lua is a lightweight, embeddable scripting language widely used for game development, configuration, and extending applications.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lua
linked to: Lua