GNOME Text Editor
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GNOME Text Editor is the modern, default text-editing application for the GNOME desktop environment, designed with a simple interface and integration into the GNOME ecosystem.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GNOME Text Editor canonical | 2 |
| gedit | 2 |
| Gedit | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8609026 — 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: GNOME Text Editor Context triple: [GNOME Core Applications, includesApplication, GNOME 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.
Sam text editor
Sam text editor is a powerful, programmable text editor from Bell Labs, designed by Rob Pike with a structural regular-expression-based command language and tight integration between its command and editing interfaces.
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C.
Thunar
Thunar is the lightweight, fast, and simple file manager designed for the Xfce desktop environment on Unix-like systems.
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D.
Notepad
Notepad is a simple text-editing program for Windows that allows users to create and edit plain text files without formatting.
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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: GNOME Text Editor Target entity description: GNOME Text Editor is the modern, default text-editing application for the GNOME desktop environment, designed with a simple interface and integration into the GNOME ecosystem.
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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.
Sam text editor
Sam text editor is a powerful, programmable text editor from Bell Labs, designed by Rob Pike with a structural regular-expression-based command language and tight integration between its command and editing interfaces.
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C.
Thunar
Thunar is the lightweight, fast, and simple file manager designed for the Xfce desktop environment on Unix-like systems.
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D.
Notepad
Notepad is a simple text-editing program for Windows that allows users to create and edit plain text files without formatting.
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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 (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
GNOME application
ⓘ
text editor ⓘ |
| belongsTo | GNOME Core Applications ⓘ |
| designGoal |
simple interface
ⓘ
tight integration with GNOME ecosystem ⓘ |
| desktopEnvironment |
GNOME
ⓘ
linked to:
GNOME desktop environment
|
| developer |
GNOME Project
ⓘ
linked to:
GNOME community
|
| distributionChannel |
GNOME core apps
ⓘ
linked to:
GNOME Core Applications
Linux distributions ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
header bar
ⓘ
side panel for documents ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
GNOME Files
ⓘ
GNOME Shell search ⓘ
linked to:
GNOME Shell
GNOME settings for appearance ⓘ |
| isDefaultTextEditorFor | GNOME desktop environment ⓘ |
| license | GPL-3.0-or-later ⓘ |
| name | GNOME Text Editor ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Linux
ⓘ
Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| replaces |
Gedit
ⓘ
linked to:
GNOME Text Editor
|
| shortName | Text Editor ⓘ |
| softwareModel | open source ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
automatic session restore
ⓘ
autosave ⓘ dark mode ⓘ document statistics ⓘ drag and drop of files ⓘ keyboard shortcuts ⓘ line numbers ⓘ printing ⓘ recent files list ⓘ search and replace ⓘ spell checking ⓘ syntax highlighting ⓘ tabbed editing ⓘ undo and redo ⓘ word wrap ⓘ |
| supportsFileEncoding | UTF-8 ⓘ |
| supportsFileType |
plain text files
ⓘ
source code files ⓘ |
| supportsPlatform |
Wayland
ⓘ
X11 ⓘ |
| targetUser |
GNOME desktop users
ⓘ
general desktop users ⓘ |
| toolkit | GTK ⓘ |
| userInterface | graphical user interface ⓘ |
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: GNOME Text Editor Description of subject: GNOME Text Editor is the modern, default text-editing application for the GNOME desktop environment, designed with a simple interface and integration into the GNOME ecosystem.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: GNOME Text Editor