AnyCancellable
E427883
AnyCancellable is a type in Apple’s Combine framework that represents a token you can store and use to cancel an active subscription to a publisher.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| AnyCancellable canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4275588 — 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: AnyCancellable Context triple: [Combine, providesType, AnyCancellable]
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A.
Push API
The Push API is a web standard that enables servers to send asynchronous push messages to web applications, allowing them to receive updates even when the page is not actively open.
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B.
RxJS
RxJS is a JavaScript library for reactive programming that uses observables to handle asynchronous data streams and event-based programs.
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C.
CAS
CAS is the commonly used abbreviation for the Chief of the Air Staff, the professional head of an air force in several countries.
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D.
CAS
CAS is the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University, the university’s largest academic division offering a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs in the liberal arts and sciences.
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E.
Jakarta Concurrency
Jakarta Concurrency is a Jakarta EE specification that defines standardized APIs and mechanisms for managing asynchronous and parallel execution in enterprise Java applications.
- 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: AnyCancellable Target entity description: AnyCancellable is a type in Apple’s Combine framework that represents a token you can store and use to cancel an active subscription to a publisher.
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A.
Push API
The Push API is a web standard that enables servers to send asynchronous push messages to web applications, allowing them to receive updates even when the page is not actively open.
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B.
RxJS
RxJS is a JavaScript library for reactive programming that uses observables to handle asynchronous data streams and event-based programs.
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C.
CAS
CAS is the commonly used abbreviation for the Chief of the Air Staff, the professional head of an air force in several countries.
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D.
CAS
CAS is the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University, the university’s largest academic division offering a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs in the liberal arts and sciences.
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E.
Jakarta Concurrency
Jakarta Concurrency is a Jakarta EE specification that defines standardized APIs and mechanisms for managing asynchronous and parallel execution in enterprise Java applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Combine type
ⓘ
struct ⓘ type ⓘ |
| availability | requires Combine framework availability ⓘ |
| canBeStoredIn |
Array<AnyCancellable>
ⓘ
Set<AnyCancellable> ⓘ |
| cancelEffect |
releases resources associated with the subscription
ⓘ
terminates the underlying subscription ⓘ |
| canWrap | any Cancellable-conforming instance ⓘ |
| category | reactive programming utility ⓘ |
| conformsTo | Cancellable ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Publisher.assign(to:on:)
ⓘ
Publisher.handleEvents(receiveCancel:) ⓘ Publisher.sink(receiveCompletion:receiveValue:) ⓘ Publisher.sink(receiveValue:) ⓘ |
| definedIn | Combine framework NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developedBy | Apple Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| documentationURL | https://developer.apple.com/documentation/combine/anycancellable ⓘ |
| hasMethod | cancel() ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
iOS 13
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
macOS 10.15 ⓘ tvOS 13 ⓘ watchOS 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFeature | uses Swift generics indirectly via publishers ⓘ |
| lifecycleBehavior | cancels subscription on deinit ⓘ |
| memoryManagement | uses ARC semantics ⓘ |
| moduleImport | import Combine ⓘ |
| ownershipModel |
subscription is active while AnyCancellable is retained
ⓘ
subscription is cancelled when AnyCancellable is deallocated ⓘ |
| pattern | used in store(in: &cancellables) pattern ⓘ |
| platform | Apple platforms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryOperation | cancel ⓘ |
| purpose |
acts as a token to cancel a subscription
ⓘ
represents a cancellable Combine subscription ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Cancellable
ⓘ
Publisher ⓘ Subscriber ⓘ Subscription ⓘ |
| role | type eraser for Cancellable ⓘ |
| supports |
automatic cancellation on deallocation
ⓘ
manual cancellation ⓘ |
| threadSafety | not guaranteed thread-safe by default ⓘ |
| typicalUsage |
stored as a property to keep subscription alive
ⓘ
used to explicitly cancel a subscription ⓘ |
| usedIn | Swift NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: AnyCancellable Description of subject: AnyCancellable is a type in Apple’s Combine framework that represents a token you can store and use to cancel an active subscription to a publisher.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.