Evil
E1008118
Evil is a popular Emacs extension that emulates Vim’s modal editing, allowing users to use Vim-style keybindings and workflows within Emacs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Evil canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12900349 — 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: Evil Context triple: [Emacs state, partOf, Evil]
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A.
Evil
"Evil" is a soulful, introspective song by Stevie Wonder from his 1972 album *Music of My Mind*, reflecting on inner conflict and moral struggle.
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B.
Evil
Evil is a psychological horror television series that follows a skeptical psychologist, a priest-in-training, and a contractor as they investigate alleged supernatural occurrences for the Catholic Church.
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C.
The Evil
The Evil is a 1978 American supernatural horror film about a psychologist who opens a cursed mansion that becomes a deadly trap for its occupants.
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D.
Nefarious
Nefarious is a 2023 psychological horror-thriller film in which Sean Patrick Flanery portrays a death row inmate claiming to be a demon during a tense evaluation by a skeptical psychiatrist.
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E.
Grim & Evil
Grim & Evil is an early-2000s Cartoon Network animated series that combined dark humor and supernatural themes, serving as the precursor to and source material for The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
- 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: Evil Target entity description: Evil is a popular Emacs extension that emulates Vim’s modal editing, allowing users to use Vim-style keybindings and workflows within Emacs.
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A.
Evil
"Evil" is a soulful, introspective song by Stevie Wonder from his 1972 album *Music of My Mind*, reflecting on inner conflict and moral struggle.
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B.
Evil
Evil is a psychological horror television series that follows a skeptical psychologist, a priest-in-training, and a contractor as they investigate alleged supernatural occurrences for the Catholic Church.
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C.
The Evil
The Evil is a 1978 American supernatural horror film about a psychologist who opens a cursed mansion that becomes a deadly trap for its occupants.
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D.
Nefarious
Nefarious is a 2023 psychological horror-thriller film in which Sean Patrick Flanery portrays a death row inmate claiming to be a demon during a tense evaluation by a skeptical psychiatrist.
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E.
Grim & Evil
Grim & Evil is an early-2000s Cartoon Network animated series that combined dark humor and supernatural themes, serving as the precursor to and source material for The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Emacs extension
ⓘ
software project ⓘ |
| aimsTo | make Emacs comfortable for Vim users ⓘ |
| category | Emacs editing package ⓘ |
| configurationStyle | Emacs Lisp configuration ⓘ |
| emulates | Vim modal editing ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Evil core
ⓘ
Evil ex module ⓘ Evil integration hooks ⓘ Evil keymaps ⓘ Evil states ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Emacs integration layer
ⓘ
Vim-compatible command line ⓘ customizable keybindings ⓘ extensible configuration ⓘ integration with Emacs undo systems ⓘ operator and motion composition ⓘ search and replace similar to Vim ⓘ text object manipulation ⓘ visual selection operations ⓘ window and buffer navigation with Vim keys ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Extensible VI Layer ⓘ |
| hostedOn | GitHub ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Emacs keymaps
ⓘ
linked to:
Emacs keymap
Emacs major modes ⓘ Emacs minor modes ⓘ |
| licensedUnder | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| provides | Vim-style keybindings in Emacs ⓘ |
| requires | GNU Emacs installation ⓘ |
| runsOn | GNU Emacs ⓘ |
| supports |
Ex commands
ⓘ
Vim counts ⓘ Vim macros ⓘ Vim marks ⓘ Vim motions ⓘ Vim registers ⓘ Vim text objects ⓘ Vim-style undo/redo ⓘ insert mode ⓘ modal editing ⓘ normal mode ⓘ operator-pending mode ⓘ visual mode ⓘ |
| supportsPlatform | any platform supported by Emacs ⓘ |
| usedBy | Emacs users familiar with Vim ⓘ |
| usedFor | bringing Vim workflows to Emacs ⓘ |
| writtenIn |
Emacs Lisp
ⓘ
linked to:
Emacs Lisp (for GNU Emacs environment)
|
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: Evil Description of subject: Evil is a popular Emacs extension that emulates Vim’s modal editing, allowing users to use Vim-style keybindings and workflows within Emacs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.