GNU Sed
E61963
GNU package
command-line utility
free software
open-source software
stream editor
text processing tool
GNU Sed is the GNU Project’s free, open-source implementation of the stream editor `sed`, widely used for non-interactive text processing and transformation on Unix-like systems.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| sed | 4 |
| GNU Sed canonical | 2 |
| GNU Sed manual | 1 |
| GNU sed | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T497655 — 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: GNU Sed Context triple: [GNU Project, hasPart, GNU Sed]
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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.
Unix
Unix is a powerful, multiuser, multitasking operating system originally developed in the 1970s that has profoundly influenced modern computing and inspired many derivative systems like Linux and macOS.
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C.
Unix shell
A Unix shell is a command-line interpreter and scripting environment used on Unix and Unix-like systems to execute commands, run programs, and automate tasks.
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D.
SED
SED was the ruling Marxist–Leninist party that governed East Germany (the German Democratic Republic) from its founding in 1949 until the end of communist rule in 1989.
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E.
Gnus
Gnus is a flexible and extensible message reader for news and email, tightly integrated with the Emacs text editor.
- 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: GNU Sed Target entity description: GNU Sed is the GNU Project’s free, open-source implementation of the stream editor `sed`, widely used for non-interactive text processing and transformation on Unix-like systems.
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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.
Unix
Unix is a powerful, multiuser, multitasking operating system originally developed in the 1970s that has profoundly influenced modern computing and inspired many derivative systems like Linux and macOS.
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C.
Unix shell
A Unix shell is a command-line interpreter and scripting environment used on Unix and Unix-like systems to execute commands, run programs, and automate tasks.
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D.
SED
SED was the ruling Marxist–Leninist party that governed East Germany (the German Democratic Republic) from its founding in 1949 until the end of communist rule in 1989.
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E.
Gnus
Gnus is a flexible and extensible message reader for news and email, tightly integrated with the Emacs text editor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
GNU package
ⓘ
command-line utility ⓘ free software ⓘ open-source software ⓘ stream editor ⓘ text processing tool ⓘ |
| commandName |
sed
ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Sed
|
| developer |
Free Software Foundation
ⓘ
GNU Project ⓘ |
| distribution | GNU core utilities collections in many systems ⓘ |
| documentation |
GNU Sed manual
ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Sed
|
| genre | non-interactive text processing ⓘ |
| isImplementationOf |
sed
ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Sed
|
| license |
GNU General Public License
ⓘ
GPL ⓘ
linked to:
GNU General Public License
|
| maintainer | GNU Sed maintainers ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
BSD
ⓘ
GNU/Linux ⓘ Unix-like systems ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| partOf |
GNU operating system
ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Hurd
|
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
POSIX sed compatibility options
ⓘ
address ranges ⓘ basic regular expressions ⓘ branching commands ⓘ extended regular expressions ⓘ global substitutions ⓘ hold space manipulation ⓘ in-place editing ⓘ labels ⓘ line appending ⓘ line deletion ⓘ line insertion ⓘ multi-line pattern processing ⓘ multiple editing commands ⓘ pattern space manipulation ⓘ portable scripts ⓘ script files ⓘ substitution command s/// ⓘ text transformation ⓘ |
| supportsStandard | POSIX sed specification ⓘ |
| usedFor |
automation in shell scripts
ⓘ
batch text editing ⓘ configuration file editing ⓘ data extraction ⓘ log file processing ⓘ text filtering ⓘ text substitution ⓘ |
| website | https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/ ⓘ |
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: GNU Sed Description of subject: GNU Sed is the GNU Project’s free, open-source implementation of the stream editor `sed`, widely used for non-interactive text processing and transformation on Unix-like systems.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: GNU Sed
linked to: GNU Sed
linked to: GNU Sed
linked to: GNU Sed
linked to: GNU Sed
linked to: GNU Sed