XEmacs
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XEmacs is a highly customizable, extensible text editor and development environment that forked from GNU Emacs and evolved with its own features, interface enhancements, and community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| XEmacs canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T477739 — 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: XEmacs Context triple: [GNU Emacs, influenced, XEmacs]
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A.
GNU Emacs
GNU Emacs is a highly extensible, customizable text editor and computing environment that serves as a flagship project of the GNU system and the free software movement.
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B.
Emacs Lisp (for GNU Emacs environment)
Emacs Lisp is a dialect of the Lisp programming language used as the extension and scripting language of the GNU Emacs text editor.
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C.
TXL
TXL was the IATA airport code for Berlin Tegel Airport, the former main international airport of Berlin, Germany.
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D.
NeXT Mail
NeXT Mail was an innovative early email and multimedia messaging application for the NeXTSTEP operating system, notable for pioneering features like integrated rich text and audio attachments.
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E.
XFS
XFS is a high-performance 64-bit journaling file system originally developed by SGI, widely used on Linux for handling large files and parallel I/O workloads.
- 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: XEmacs Target entity description: XEmacs is a highly customizable, extensible text editor and development environment that forked from GNU Emacs and evolved with its own features, interface enhancements, and community.
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A.
GNU Emacs
GNU Emacs is a highly extensible, customizable text editor and computing environment that serves as a flagship project of the GNU system and the free software movement.
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B.
Emacs Lisp (for GNU Emacs environment)
Emacs Lisp is a dialect of the Lisp programming language used as the extension and scripting language of the GNU Emacs text editor.
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C.
TXL
TXL was the IATA airport code for Berlin Tegel Airport, the former main international airport of Berlin, Germany.
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D.
NeXT Mail
NeXT Mail was an innovative early email and multimedia messaging application for the NeXTSTEP operating system, notable for pioneering features like integrated rich text and audio attachments.
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E.
XFS
XFS is a high-performance 64-bit journaling file system originally developed by SGI, widely used on Linux for handling large files and parallel I/O workloads.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Emacs variant
ⓘ
free and open-source software ⓘ software application ⓘ text editor ⓘ |
| basedOn | GNU Emacs ⓘ |
| category |
Emacs family of editors
ⓘ
surface form:
Emacs family
Unix text editors ⓘ cross-platform text editors ⓘ |
| customizationMethod |
Emacs Lisp configuration files
ⓘ
interactive customization buffers ⓘ |
| forkedFrom | GNU Emacs ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Lisp interpreter
ⓘ
Mule internationalization layer ⓘ package manager ⓘ redisplay engine ⓘ |
| influenced | later GNU Emacs GUI features ⓘ |
| influencedBy | GNU Emacs ⓘ |
| license | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
BSD
ⓘ
GNU/Linux ⓘ Windows ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
Solaris operating system ⓘ
surface form:
Solaris
Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
C
ⓘ
Emacs Lisp (for GNU Emacs environment) ⓘ
surface form:
Emacs Lisp
|
| softwareGenre |
integrated development environment
ⓘ
text editor ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
Mule multilingual environment
ⓘ
Tty (terminal) interface ⓘ Unicode and internationalization ⓘ X11 support ⓘ code folding ⓘ custom keybindings ⓘ customizable themes ⓘ debugger integration ⓘ email and news reading ⓘ extensible menus ⓘ extensible via Lisp ⓘ graphical user interface ⓘ menubar ⓘ minor modes ⓘ mouse support ⓘ multiple major modes ⓘ packages system ⓘ programmable macros ⓘ scrollbars ⓘ shell integration ⓘ syntax highlighting ⓘ toolbar ⓘ version control integration ⓘ |
| supportsLanguage |
C
ⓘ
C++ ⓘ HTML ⓘ Java ⓘ LaTeX ⓘ Lisp programming language ⓘ
surface form:
Lisp
Perl ⓘ Python ⓘ Shell scripting ⓘ |
| targetUser |
programmers
ⓘ
system administrators ⓘ technical writers ⓘ |
| userInterface |
command-line interface
ⓘ
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: XEmacs Description of subject: XEmacs is a highly customizable, extensible text editor and development environment that forked from GNU Emacs and evolved with its own features, interface enhancements, and community.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.