grep-searcher crate (Rust)
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The grep-searcher crate is a Rust library that provides fast, flexible search functionality over text data, forming a core component of tools like ripgrep.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| grep-searcher crate (Rust) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4275223 — 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: grep-searcher crate (Rust) Context triple: [ripgrep, usesLibrary, grep-searcher crate (Rust)]
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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.
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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C.
Qwant
Qwant is a French privacy-focused search engine that emphasizes user anonymity and does not track or profile its users.
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D.
DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused internet search engine that emphasizes not tracking users or personalizing search results based on their data.
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E.
Brave Search
Brave Search is a privacy-focused, independent search engine developed by Brave that emphasizes user anonymity and reduced tracking.
- 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: grep-searcher crate (Rust) Target entity description: The grep-searcher crate is a Rust library that provides fast, flexible search functionality over text data, forming a core component of tools like ripgrep.
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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.
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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C.
Qwant
Qwant is a French privacy-focused search engine that emphasizes user anonymity and does not track or profile its users.
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D.
DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused internet search engine that emphasizes not tracking users or personalizing search results based on their data.
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E.
Brave Search
Brave Search is a privacy-focused, independent search engine developed by Brave that emphasizes user anonymity and reduced tracking.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Rust crate
ⓘ
software library ⓘ |
| author | Andrew Gallant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coreComponentOf | ripgrep NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dependsOn |
bstr
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memmap2 ⓘ regex-automata ⓘ |
| designedFor |
fast text search
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flexible search configuration ⓘ use in command-line search tools ⓘ |
| ecosystem | Rust crates ecosystem ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
byte-oriented match reporting
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configurable search options ⓘ handling of binary data ⓘ line terminator configuration ⓘ line-oriented match reporting ⓘ match sinks callback API ⓘ search over pre-compiled regexes ⓘ search statistics collection ⓘ |
| hostedOn | crates.io NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| implements |
binary search mode
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grep-like search ⓘ line-oriented search ⓘ literal search ⓘ multi-line search ⓘ regular expression search ⓘ search over UTF-8 text ⓘ search over arbitrary bytes ⓘ search over in-memory buffers ⓘ search over memory-mapped files ⓘ search over standard input ⓘ text search ⓘ |
| license |
MIT
NERFINISHED
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UNLICENSE ⓘ |
| maintainer | Andrew Gallant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | ripgrep codebase ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Rust NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
grep-cli
NERFINISHED
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grep-matcher ⓘ ripgrep NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| repository | https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep ⓘ |
| supports |
case-insensitive search
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case-sensitive search ⓘ context lines after match ⓘ context lines before match ⓘ inverted matches ⓘ line counting ⓘ literal pattern searching ⓘ match counting ⓘ parallel search via external coordination ⓘ regex-based searching ⓘ search cancellation ⓘ search over multiple files ⓘ streaming search ⓘ |
| usedBy | ripgrep NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: grep-searcher crate (Rust) Description of subject: The grep-searcher crate is a Rust library that provides fast, flexible search functionality over text data, forming a core component of tools like ripgrep.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.