Lucid Emacs
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Lucid Emacs is a variant of the Emacs text editor that introduced a more advanced, customizable graphical interface and laid groundwork for what later became XEmacs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lucid Emacs canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12900302 — 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: Lucid Emacs Context triple: [Emacs family of editors, hasMember, Lucid Emacs]
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A.
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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B.
Doom Emacs
Doom Emacs is a fast, modular, and highly-configurable Emacs distribution that provides a modern, Vim-inspired editing experience with curated defaults and packages.
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C.
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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D.
Spacemacs
Spacemacs is a community-driven Emacs distribution that combines Vim- and Emacs-style editing with a highly organized, modular configuration system.
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E.
TECO Emacs
TECO Emacs is an early, TECO-based text editor that served as a direct precursor and foundational influence to modern Emacs implementations like GNU Emacs.
- 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: Lucid Emacs Target entity description: Lucid Emacs is a variant of the Emacs text editor that introduced a more advanced, customizable graphical interface and laid groundwork for what later became XEmacs.
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A.
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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B.
Doom Emacs
Doom Emacs is a fast, modular, and highly-configurable Emacs distribution that provides a modern, Vim-inspired editing experience with curated defaults and packages.
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C.
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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D.
Spacemacs
Spacemacs is a community-driven Emacs distribution that combines Vim- and Emacs-style editing with a highly organized, modular configuration system.
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E.
TECO Emacs
TECO Emacs is an early, TECO-based text editor that served as a direct precursor and foundational influence to modern Emacs implementations like GNU Emacs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Emacs variant
ⓘ
free software ⓘ text editor ⓘ |
| basedOn | GNU Emacs ⓘ |
| developer | Lucid Inc. ⓘ |
| developmentModel | open source ⓘ |
| genre | extensible editor ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
color support
ⓘ
customizable keybindings ⓘ customizable toolbar ⓘ graphical user interface ⓘ improved X Window System support ⓘ menu-based customization options ⓘ menubar integration ⓘ mouse support ⓘ multiple buffers ⓘ multiple fonts in a single buffer ⓘ multiple windows ⓘ programmable editing commands ⓘ scrollbars ⓘ syntax highlighting ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor | XEmacs ⓘ |
| influenced |
XEmacs
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graphical features later adopted by GNU Emacs ⓘ |
| license | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advanced GUI customization compared to contemporary GNU Emacs
ⓘ
being the direct ancestor of XEmacs ⓘ early adoption of toolkit-style widgets in Emacs ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Unix
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Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| partOf |
Emacs family
ⓘ
linked to:
Emacs family of editors
|
| programmingLanguage |
C
ⓘ
Emacs Lisp ⓘ
linked to:
Emacs Lisp (for GNU Emacs environment)
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| softwareGenre |
programmer's editor
ⓘ
text editor ⓘ |
| status | discontinued ⓘ |
| supports |
Emacs Lisp extensions
ⓘ
X Window System ⓘ
linked to:
X11
customization via init files ⓘ multiple programming languages editing modes ⓘ |
| targetUser |
advanced text editor users
ⓘ
software developers ⓘ |
| userInterface |
graphical
ⓘ
text-based ⓘ |
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: Lucid Emacs Description of subject: Lucid Emacs is a variant of the Emacs text editor that introduced a more advanced, customizable graphical interface and laid groundwork for what later became XEmacs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.