Sam text editor
E744102
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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam text editor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8570821 — 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: Sam text editor Context triple: [ed, influenced, Sam 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.
acme text editor
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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C.
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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D.
vi text editor
The vi text editor is a classic, modal, screen-oriented text editor for Unix systems that became a standard tool for programmers and system administrators.
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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: Sam text editor Target entity description: 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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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.
acme text editor
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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C.
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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D.
vi text editor
The vi text editor is a classic, modal, screen-oriented text editor for Unix systems that became a standard tool for programmers and system administrators.
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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 (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | text editor ⓘ |
| authorOfDocumentation | Rob Pike NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designer | Rob Pike NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer | Bell Labs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distribution | Plan 9 from Bell Labs distribution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | programmer's text editor ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
sam command interpreter
ⓘ
sam graphical interface ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
structural pattern matching
ⓘ
text addresses ⓘ |
| hasDocumentation | The Text Editor sam and its Command Language ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
network-transparent editing model
ⓘ
programmable editing environment ⓘ separation of command and editing processes ⓘ structural regular-expression-based command language ⓘ tight integration between command and editing interfaces ⓘ |
| hasInterface |
command-line interface
ⓘ
graphical user interface ⓘ |
| hasName | sam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | Acme text editor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
QED text editor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ed text editor ⓘ |
| license | open source license ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence on later Bell Labs tools
ⓘ
innovative structural regular expression model ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
UNIX NERFINISHED ⓘ Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| originatedAt | Bell Labs Computing Science Research Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| supports |
addressing by patterns and line numbers
ⓘ
buffers and selections ⓘ editing large files ⓘ interactive editing ⓘ mouse-based editing ⓘ multiple files editing ⓘ multiple windows ⓘ non-interactive command execution ⓘ piping text through external commands ⓘ regular expression search and replace ⓘ remote file editing over networks ⓘ scriptable command language ⓘ undo operations ⓘ |
| targetUser |
power users
ⓘ
software developers ⓘ |
| uses | structural regular expressions ⓘ |
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: Sam text editor Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
ed