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Gnocchi will have potato for texture and flavor, but it traditionally is a pasta type dough(egg, flour, water) with potato added. As Adami said, there are tons of varietals to it, as there is to pasta. Gnocchi is in no way a dumpling for the record.
I've seen it mostly described as a dumpling but never understood why. They usually feel more like balls of a potato dough than a pasta with filling.
I think it's a misconception that dumplings must have a filling. See again, chicken and dumplings.
Historically, pasta had to be made with durum wheat, so gnocchi is definitely not pasta, though you can use it in the same culinary niche. I'd call it a type of dumpling, but since dumpling doesn't have a universal definition its not really a question which has a "correct" answer.
So that would cause any pasta that was made exclusively with all purpose flour to not be pasta?
No, they have actual food in Italy.
How so? It's boiled dough? By definition it's a dumpling.