Web IDL Standard
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The Web IDL Standard is a W3C specification that defines a language for describing interfaces between web platform APIs and JavaScript, ensuring consistent behavior across browsers.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Web IDL | 2 |
| Web IDL Standard canonical | 1 |
| Web Interface Definition Language | 1 |
| WebIDL | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2174858 — 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: Web IDL Standard Context triple: [Streams Standard, relatedSpecification, Web IDL Standard]
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A.
WebSockets Standard
The WebSockets Standard is a web technology specification that enables full-duplex, real-time communication between web browsers and servers over a single, long-lived connection.
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B.
HTML Living Standard
The HTML Living Standard is the continuously updated, authoritative specification for the HTML language maintained by the WHATWG to define how web content is structured and behaves across browsers.
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C.
WebAssembly specification
The WebAssembly specification is a standardized, low-level binary instruction format designed to enable high-performance, portable code execution on the web and other platforms.
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D.
ECMA-372
ECMA-372 is the ECMA standard that defines the C++/CLI language specification for managed extensions of C++ targeting the .NET runtime.
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E.
ECMA-334
ECMA-334 is the ECMA International standard that formally defines the C# programming language specification.
- 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: Web IDL Standard Target entity description: The Web IDL Standard is a W3C specification that defines a language for describing interfaces between web platform APIs and JavaScript, ensuring consistent behavior across browsers.
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A.
WebSockets Standard
The WebSockets Standard is a web technology specification that enables full-duplex, real-time communication between web browsers and servers over a single, long-lived connection.
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B.
HTML Living Standard
The HTML Living Standard is the continuously updated, authoritative specification for the HTML language maintained by the WHATWG to define how web content is structured and behaves across browsers.
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C.
WebAssembly specification
The WebAssembly specification is a standardized, low-level binary instruction format designed to enable high-performance, portable code execution on the web and other platforms.
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D.
ECMA-372
ECMA-372 is the ECMA standard that defines the C++/CLI language specification for managed extensions of C++ targeting the .NET runtime.
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E.
ECMA-334
ECMA-334 is the ECMA International standard that formally defines the C# programming language specification.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
W3C specification
ⓘ
interface description language ⓘ technical standard ⓘ web platform standard ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
World Wide Web Consortium
ⓘ
surface form:
W3C
|
| alsoKnownAs |
Web IDL Standard
ⓘ
surface form:
Web IDL
Web IDL Standard ⓘ
surface form:
Web Interface Definition Language
|
| appliesTo |
JavaScript
ⓘ
web browsers ⓘ web platform specifications ⓘ |
| constrains |
how IDL-defined operations behave at runtime
ⓘ
how web APIs are exposed to JavaScript ⓘ |
| defines |
binding of exceptions to JavaScript Error objects
ⓘ
dictionary types for structured data ⓘ enumeration types for constrained string values ⓘ exception and error handling rules for IDL bindings ⓘ extended attributes for web APIs ⓘ interface inheritance model for web APIs ⓘ nullable and optional type modifiers ⓘ overload resolution rules for operations ⓘ promise types for asynchronous operations ⓘ rules for attribute reflection ⓘ rules for brand checks on platform objects ⓘ rules for converting between IDL values and JavaScript values ⓘ rules for legacy platform features compatibility ⓘ rules for operations and callbacks ⓘ rules for platform objects in JavaScript ⓘ rules for property visibility and enumerability on platform objects ⓘ sequence and record collection types ⓘ syntax for interface definitions ⓘ types used in web platform APIs ⓘ union types for web APIs ⓘ |
| goal |
enable interoperable implementations of web platform features
ⓘ
ensure consistent behavior of web APIs across browsers ⓘ provide a precise mapping between IDL and JavaScript ⓘ |
| governs | IDL fragments embedded in W3C and WHATWG specs ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
W3C Working Group
ⓘ
surface form:
W3C Web Applications Working Group
|
| publisher | World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
DOM
ⓘ
surface form:
DOM Standard
ECMAScript ⓘ HTML Living Standard ⓘ
surface form:
HTML Standard
|
| standardizes |
IDL bindings for JavaScript
ⓘ
language for describing web platform interfaces ⓘ |
| usedFor |
defining CSSOM interfaces
ⓘ
defining DOM interfaces ⓘ defining Fetch and networking APIs ⓘ defining HTML API interfaces ⓘ defining Web Audio API interfaces ⓘ defining WebCrypto interfaces ⓘ defining WebRTC APIs ⓘ defining browser APIs ⓘ defining many other web platform specifications ⓘ |
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: Web IDL Standard Description of subject: The Web IDL Standard is a W3C specification that defines a language for describing interfaces between web platform APIs and JavaScript, ensuring consistent behavior across browsers.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Web IDL
this entity surface form:
Web IDL
this entity surface form:
Web Interface Definition Language
this entity surface form:
WebIDL