Selection API
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The Selection API is a web standard that lets scripts inspect and manipulate the text or content currently selected by the user in a document.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Selection API canonical | 2 |
| W3C Selection API specification | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10329248 — 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: Selection API Context triple: [Open Web Platform, hasComponent, Selection API]
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A.
MatSelect
MatSelect is an Angular Material UI component that provides a styled, accessible dropdown selection control for Angular applications.
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B.
Selectee List
The Selectee List is a U.S. government watchlist of air travelers who are subject to enhanced security screening before being allowed to board commercial flights.
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C.
XSELECT
XSELECT is a software tool used by astronomers to interactively select, filter, and analyze high-energy astrophysics data from various space-based observatories.
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D.
SelectObject
SelectObject is a Windows GDI function used to select a graphics object, such as a pen, brush, or bitmap, into a device context for subsequent drawing operations.
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E.
Item Chooser
Item Chooser is an accessibility tool in Apple's VoiceOver screen reader that lets users quickly navigate and select on-screen items from a searchable list.
- 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: Selection API Target entity description: The Selection API is a web standard that lets scripts inspect and manipulate the text or content currently selected by the user in a document.
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A.
MatSelect
MatSelect is an Angular Material UI component that provides a styled, accessible dropdown selection control for Angular applications.
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B.
Selectee List
The Selectee List is a U.S. government watchlist of air travelers who are subject to enhanced security screening before being allowed to board commercial flights.
-
C.
XSELECT
XSELECT is a software tool used by astronomers to interactively select, filter, and analyze high-energy astrophysics data from various space-based observatories.
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D.
SelectObject
SelectObject is a Windows GDI function used to select a graphics object, such as a pen, brush, or bitmap, into a device context for subsequent drawing operations.
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E.
Item Chooser
Item Chooser is an accessibility tool in Apple's VoiceOver screen reader that lets users quickly navigate and select on-screen items from a searchable list.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Web API
ⓘ
Web standard ⓘ |
| accessibleVia |
document.getSelection()
ⓘ
window.getSelection() ⓘ |
| canAffect |
document selection state
ⓘ
user editing experience ⓘ |
| compatibleWith | JavaScript ⓘ |
| definedIn |
W3C Selection API specification
ⓘ
linked to:
Selection API
|
| enablesFeature |
annotation tools
ⓘ
contextual toolbars for selected text ⓘ custom text selection UI ⓘ in-page text editors ⓘ rich text editing ⓘ |
| exposesInterface |
Range
ⓘ
Selection ⓘ |
| handles |
caret positions
ⓘ
user selection ranges ⓘ |
| hasEventIntegrationWith | selectionchange event ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | WHATWG ⓘ |
| partOf |
Web Platform APIs
ⓘ
linked to:
Web APIs
|
| previouslyMaintainedBy |
W3C
ⓘ
linked to:
World Wide Web Consortium
|
| relatedTo |
DOM Range API
ⓘ
Document Object Model ⓘ
linked to:
DOM
|
| securityConsideration | subject to same-origin policy for cross-document selections ⓘ |
| specifies | behavior of selection in scriptable documents ⓘ |
| status | Living Standard ⓘ |
| supportsOperation |
addRange()
ⓘ
collapse() ⓘ containsNode() ⓘ extend() ⓘ getRangeAt() ⓘ removeAllRanges() ⓘ removeRange() ⓘ selectAllChildren() ⓘ |
| supportsProperty |
anchorNode
ⓘ
anchorOffset ⓘ focusNode ⓘ focusOffset ⓘ isCollapsed ⓘ rangeCount ⓘ |
| usedFor |
inspecting user text selection
ⓘ
manipulating user text selection ⓘ working with selected document content ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
HTML documents
ⓘ
editable content ⓘ web browsers ⓘ |
| worksWith |
DOM elements
ⓘ
text nodes ⓘ |
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: Selection API Description of subject: The Selection API is a web standard that lets scripts inspect and manipulate the text or content currently selected by the user in a document.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Selection API