acme text editor
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Acme text editor is a mouse-centric, integrated text editing and programming environment from the Plan 9 operating system, known for its unique user interface that blends editor, shell, and window system functionality.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Acme text editor | 1 |
| acme text editor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6991594 — 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: acme text editor Context triple: [Plan 9 from Bell Labs, includesComponent, acme text editor]
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A.
Pluma text editor
Pluma text editor is a lightweight, user-friendly text editor commonly used in Linux environments as part of the MATE desktop ecosystem.
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B.
Bravo text editor
Bravo text editor was an early WYSIWYG word processing program developed at Xerox PARC that pioneered many modern graphical text-editing concepts.
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C.
Emacs family of editors
The Emacs family of editors is a lineage of highly extensible, customizable text editors—most notably GNU Emacs—that serve as powerful, programmable environments for text editing and software development.
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D.
TextEdit
TextEdit is a simple, built-in macOS application for creating and editing plain text and rich text documents.
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E.
Gypsy text editor
Gypsy text editor was an early WYSIWYG word processing program for the Xerox Alto that pioneered modern graphical user interface concepts such as direct manipulation and mouse-based text editing.
- 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: acme text editor Target entity description: Acme text editor is a mouse-centric, integrated text editing and programming environment from the Plan 9 operating system, known for its unique user interface that blends editor, shell, and window system functionality.
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A.
Pluma text editor
Pluma text editor is a lightweight, user-friendly text editor commonly used in Linux environments as part of the MATE desktop ecosystem.
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B.
Bravo text editor
Bravo text editor was an early WYSIWYG word processing program developed at Xerox PARC that pioneered many modern graphical text-editing concepts.
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C.
Emacs family of editors
The Emacs family of editors is a lineage of highly extensible, customizable text editors—most notably GNU Emacs—that serve as powerful, programmable environments for text editing and software development.
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D.
TextEdit
TextEdit is a simple, built-in macOS application for creating and editing plain text and rich text documents.
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E.
Gypsy text editor
Gypsy text editor was an early WYSIWYG word processing program for the Xerox Alto that pioneered modern graphical user interface concepts such as direct manipulation and mouse-based text editing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Plan 9 software
ⓘ
text editor ⓘ |
| designGoal |
mouse-driven workflow
ⓘ
support interactive, exploratory programming ⓘ unify editor, shell, and window system ⓘ |
| developer | Rob Pike ⓘ |
| feature |
clickable text for executing commands
ⓘ
clickable text for navigating locations ⓘ clickable text for opening files ⓘ editing of multiple files simultaneously ⓘ integrated programming environment ⓘ integrated shell functionality ⓘ integrated text editing environment ⓘ integrated window system functionality ⓘ mouse chording commands ⓘ multiple windows ⓘ plumber integration ⓘ regular expression support ⓘ search and replace ⓘ support for external commands ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
log windows
ⓘ
scratch buffers ⓘ tag line for window commands ⓘ |
| inspired | later mouse-centric editors and environments ⓘ |
| license | open source license ⓘ |
| notableFor |
combination of editor, shell, and window manager concepts
ⓘ
tight integration with Plan 9 plumbing system ⓘ unique mouse-based user interface ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Inferno
ⓘ
Plan 9 from Bell Labs ⓘ Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| origin |
Bell Labs
ⓘ
linked to:
Bell Telephone Laboratories
|
| partOf |
Plan 9 user environment
ⓘ
linked to:
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
|
| platform |
Inferno
ⓘ
Plan 9 ⓘ
linked to:
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Unix-like operating systems via ports ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system
ⓘ
linked to:
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Sam text editor ⓘ |
| supports |
file system navigation
ⓘ
general text editing ⓘ shell command execution ⓘ software development ⓘ |
| userInterface |
graphical user interface
ⓘ
mouse-centric ⓘ |
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: acme text editor Description of subject: Acme text editor is a mouse-centric, integrated text editing and programming environment from the Plan 9 operating system, known for its unique user interface that blends editor, shell, and window system functionality.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: acme text editor