Media Session API
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The Media Session API is a web platform feature that lets sites customize media notifications and respond to media keys for audio and video playback.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Media Session API canonical | 2 |
| Media Session Standard | 1 |
| MediaSession | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10329264 — 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: Media Session API Context triple: [Open Web Platform, hasComponent, Media Session API]
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A.
Music Multimedia Room
The Music Multimedia Room is a specialized facility at the Schulich School of Music designed for integrating music performance, recording, and advanced audio-visual technologies.
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B.
Share Play
Share Play is a PlayStation 4 feature that lets players virtually share their games online, allowing friends to watch, take control, or join in multiplayer even if they don’t own the game.
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C.
SharePlay
SharePlay is an Apple feature that lets users share and enjoy synchronized content like movies, music, and apps together in real time during FaceTime calls.
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D.
Playback
"Playback" is a detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring his iconic private investigator Philip Marlowe in one of his later cases.
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E.
Live Music Now
Live Music Now is a UK-based charity that brings high-quality live music performances and educational workshops to schools, hospitals, care homes, and community settings, particularly for people who might not otherwise have access to them.
- 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: Media Session API Target entity description: The Media Session API is a web platform feature that lets sites customize media notifications and respond to media keys for audio and video playback.
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A.
Music Multimedia Room
The Music Multimedia Room is a specialized facility at the Schulich School of Music designed for integrating music performance, recording, and advanced audio-visual technologies.
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B.
Share Play
Share Play is a PlayStation 4 feature that lets players virtually share their games online, allowing friends to watch, take control, or join in multiplayer even if they don’t own the game.
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C.
SharePlay
SharePlay is an Apple feature that lets users share and enjoy synchronized content like movies, music, and apps together in real time during FaceTime calls.
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D.
Playback
"Playback" is a detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring his iconic private investigator Philip Marlowe in one of his later cases.
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E.
Live Music Now
Live Music Now is a UK-based charity that brings high-quality live music performances and educational workshops to schools, hospitals, care homes, and community settings, particularly for people who might not otherwise have access to them.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Web API
ⓘ
Web platform feature ⓘ |
| allows |
Setting media album
ⓘ
Setting media artist ⓘ Setting media artwork ⓘ Setting media title ⓘ |
| compatibleWith | Progressive Web Apps ⓘ |
| definedIn |
Media Session Standard
ⓘ
linked to:
Media Session API
|
| documentationAt | https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/Media_Session_API ⓘ |
| enables |
Custom lock screen media controls
ⓘ
Custom notification area media controls ⓘ Integration with hardware media keys ⓘ Integration with headset buttons ⓘ |
| exposedIn | Window interface ⓘ |
| improves | Media playback user experience on the web ⓘ |
| mainInterface |
MediaImage
ⓘ
MediaMetadata ⓘ MediaSession ⓘ
linked to:
Media Session API
Navigator.mediaSession ⓘ |
| partOf |
HTML Living Standard ecosystem
ⓘ
linked to:
HTML Living Standard
Web Media APIs ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
Control audio playback
ⓘ
Control video playback ⓘ Customize media notifications ⓘ Handle media keys ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
HTMLMediaElement
ⓘ
Notifications API ⓘ
linked to:
Notifications API Standard
Service Workers ⓘ Web Audio API ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
W3C
ⓘ
linked to:
World Wide Web Consortium
|
| status | Living standard ⓘ |
| supportedByBrowser |
Google Chrome
ⓘ
Microsoft Edge ⓘ Opera ⓘ |
| supportsAction |
nexttrack
ⓘ
pause ⓘ play ⓘ previoustrack ⓘ seekbackward ⓘ seekforward ⓘ seekto ⓘ skipad ⓘ stop ⓘ |
| supportsMethod |
MediaMetadata constructor
ⓘ
setActionHandler ⓘ setMetadata ⓘ setPositionState ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Audio book web apps
ⓘ
Music web apps ⓘ Podcast web apps ⓘ Video streaming web apps ⓘ |
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: Media Session API Description of subject: The Media Session API is a web platform feature that lets sites customize media notifications and respond to media keys for audio and video playback.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Media Session API
linked to: Media Session API