The Silver Searcher
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The Silver Searcher is a fast, command-line code-search tool (often invoked as `ag`) known for its speed and simplicity in searching large codebases.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Silver Searcher canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4275220 — 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: The Silver Searcher Context triple: [ripgrep, inspiredBy, The Silver Searcher]
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A.
ripgrep
ripgrep is a fast, command-line search tool written in Rust that recursively searches directories using regular expressions and is widely used as a modern alternative to grep.
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B.
Magit
Magit is a powerful, interactive Git interface for the Emacs text editor that streamlines version control operations through a rich, keyboard-driven UI.
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C.
GNU Grep
GNU Grep is the GNU Project’s free, open-source implementation of the grep command-line utility used for fast text searching and pattern matching in files.
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D.
GNU Findutils
GNU Findutils is a collection of essential GNU utilities, including the widely used `find`, `locate`, `updatedb`, and `xargs` tools, for searching and managing files on Unix-like systems.
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E.
Vim
Vim is a highly configurable, keyboard-driven text editor renowned for its efficiency, modal editing, and extensive plugin ecosystem, widely used by programmers and power users.
- 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: The Silver Searcher Target entity description: The Silver Searcher is a fast, command-line code-search tool (often invoked as `ag`) known for its speed and simplicity in searching large codebases.
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A.
ripgrep
ripgrep is a fast, command-line search tool written in Rust that recursively searches directories using regular expressions and is widely used as a modern alternative to grep.
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B.
Magit
Magit is a powerful, interactive Git interface for the Emacs text editor that streamlines version control operations through a rich, keyboard-driven UI.
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C.
GNU Grep
GNU Grep is the GNU Project’s free, open-source implementation of the grep command-line utility used for fast text searching and pattern matching in files.
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D.
GNU Findutils
GNU Findutils is a collection of essential GNU utilities, including the widely used `find`, `locate`, `updatedb`, and `xargs` tools, for searching and managing files on Unix-like systems.
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E.
Vim
Vim is a highly configurable, keyboard-driven text editor renowned for its efficiency, modal editing, and extensive plugin ecosystem, widely used by programmers and power users.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
code search tool
ⓘ
command-line utility ⓘ free and open-source software ⓘ |
| author | Geoff Greer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Unix text processing utilities
ⓘ
search software ⓘ |
| commandName | ag NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distribution |
Arch Linux
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Debian NERFINISHED ⓘ Fedora NERFINISHED ⓘ Homebrew NERFINISHED ⓘ Ubuntu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feature |
Emacs integration
ⓘ
PCRE-based pattern matching ⓘ Perl-compatible regular expressions ⓘ Sublime Text integration ⓘ Vim integration ⓘ colorized output ⓘ file type filters ⓘ ignores files matched by .gitignore ⓘ ignores files matched by .hgignore ⓘ ignores files matched by .ignore ⓘ parallel search ⓘ recursive directory search ⓘ |
| goal |
be faster than ack
ⓘ
provide simple defaults for code search ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | ag NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | ack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| license | Apache License 2.0 ⓘ |
| optimizedFor |
searching code
ⓘ
searching large codebases ⓘ |
| platform |
Linux
ⓘ
Windows ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| primaryDeveloper | Geoff Greer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| readsIgnoreFiles |
.gitignore
ⓘ
.hgignore ⓘ .ignore ⓘ |
| repositoryHost | GitHub NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| similarTo |
ack
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
grep ⓘ ripgrep NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supports | Perl-compatible regular expressions ⓘ |
| useCase |
developer productivity
ⓘ
searching source code repositories ⓘ |
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: The Silver Searcher Description of subject: The Silver Searcher is a fast, command-line code-search tool (often invoked as `ag`) known for its speed and simplicity in searching large codebases.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.