CSS
E3741
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a style sheet language used to control the presentation and layout of web pages written in HTML or XML.
All labels observed (27)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CSS canonical | 79 |
| Cascading Style Sheets | 41 |
| CSS3 | 11 |
| CSS Box Model | 1 |
| CSS Containment Module | 1 |
| CSS Flexible Box Layout Module | 1 |
| CSS Fonts Module | 1 |
| CSS Grid Layout Module | 1 |
| CSS Level 1 | 1 |
| CSS Masking Module | 1 |
| CSS Multi-column Layout Module | 1 |
| CSS Shapes Module | 1 |
| CSS Values and Units Module | 1 |
| CSS Will Change Module | 1 |
| CSS cascade | 1 |
| CSS selectors | 1 |
| CSS specifications | 1 |
| CSS viewport | 1 |
| CSS1 | 1 |
| CSS1 specification | 1 |
| CSS2 | 1 |
| CSS2 specification | 1 |
| CSS2.1 | 1 |
| CSS3 modules | 1 |
| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) | 1 |
| SASS | 1 |
| Sass | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20736 — 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: CSS Context triple: [World Wide Web, usesStandard, CSS]
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A.
HTML
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard markup language used to structure and present content on the World Wide Web.
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B.
.cl
.cl is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Chile for use on the internet.
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C.
SCC
SCC is the commonly used abbreviation for the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, an interdisciplinary hub for computing and AI research and education.
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D.
CCC
The CCC, or Civilian Conservation Corps, was a New Deal work relief program in the United States during the 1930s and early 1940s that employed young men in conservation and public works projects such as reforestation, park development, and soil erosion control.
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E.
WAI
WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) program that develops guidelines, resources, and standards to make the web accessible to people with disabilities.
- 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: CSS Target entity description: CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a style sheet language used to control the presentation and layout of web pages written in HTML or XML.
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A.
HTML
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard markup language used to structure and present content on the World Wide Web.
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B.
.cl
.cl is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Chile for use on the internet.
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C.
SCC
SCC is the commonly used abbreviation for the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, an interdisciplinary hub for computing and AI research and education.
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D.
CCC
The CCC, or Civilian Conservation Corps, was a New Deal work relief program in the United States during the 1930s and early 1940s that employed young men in conservation and public works projects such as reforestation, park development, and soil erosion control.
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E.
WAI
WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) program that develops guidelines, resources, and standards to make the web accessible to people with disabilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
style sheet language
ⓘ
web technology ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf |
CSS
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets
|
| appliesTo |
HTML
ⓘ
MathML ⓘ SVG ⓘ HTML ⓘ
surface form:
XHTML
XML ⓘ |
| category | front-end web development technology ⓘ |
| coDevelopedBy | Bert Bos ⓘ |
| coreConcept |
box model
ⓘ
cascade ⓘ inheritance model ⓘ specificity ⓘ |
| createdBy | Håkon Wium Lie ⓘ |
| declarationContains |
property
ⓘ
value ⓘ |
| designedFor |
describing presentation of HTML documents
ⓘ
describing presentation of XML documents ⓘ |
| fullName |
CSS
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets
|
| introduced | 1996 ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ |
| supports |
animations
ⓘ
cascading rules ⓘ custom properties ⓘ embedded style sheets ⓘ external style sheets ⓘ flexbox layout ⓘ grid layout ⓘ inheritance ⓘ inline styles ⓘ media queries ⓘ positioning ⓘ pseudo-classes ⓘ pseudo-elements ⓘ selectors ⓘ transforms ⓘ transitions ⓘ variables ⓘ |
| syntaxBasedOn | rule sets of selectors and declarations ⓘ |
| usedFor |
controlling colors of web pages
ⓘ
controlling fonts of web pages ⓘ controlling layout of web pages ⓘ controlling responsive design ⓘ controlling spacing of web pages ⓘ |
| usedWith |
DOM
ⓘ
JavaScript ⓘ |
| version |
CSS
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
CSS1
CSS self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
CSS2
CSS self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
CSS2.1
CSS self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
CSS3
|
| versioningModel | modular 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: CSS Description of subject: CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a style sheet language used to control the presentation and layout of web pages written in HTML or XML.
Referenced by (155)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Arena
this entity surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets
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Arena
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Arena
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Cascading Style Sheets
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Cascading Style Sheets
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CSS Box Model
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Cascading Style Sheets
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Cascading Style Sheets
this entity surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets
this entity surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets
this entity surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets
this entity surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets
this entity surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets
this entity surface form:
CSS viewport
this entity surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets
this entity surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets
this entity surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets
this entity surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets
subject surface form:
Blink
this entity surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets
this entity surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets
this entity surface form:
CSS cascade
this entity surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets
this entity surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets
this entity surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
subject surface form:
Servo
this entity surface form:
CSS selectors
this entity surface form:
SASS