Streams Standard
E48502
Streams Standard is a web platform specification that defines a consistent, interoperable API for creating, composing, and consuming streaming data in JavaScript and web browsers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Streams Standard canonical | 3 |
| Streams | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T380426 — 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: Streams Standard Context triple: [WHATWG, develops, Streams Standard]
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A.
River
"River" is a melancholic 1971 folk song by Joni Mitchell, often associated with the holiday season and emotional heartbreak.
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B.
Opalescent River
The Opalescent River is a scenic mountain river in New York’s Adirondack High Peaks region, known as one of the headwater streams contributing to the Hudson River.
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C.
Don River
The Don River is a significant waterway in Toronto, Ontario, that flows south through the city into Lake Ontario and has played an important role in its urban and environmental history.
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D.
China Brook
China Brook is a small tributary stream associated with New York’s Croton River watershed.
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E.
Yodo River
The Yodo River is a major waterway in Japan’s Kansai region that flows through Kyoto and Osaka, historically serving as an important route for transport, trade, and urban development.
- 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: Streams Standard Target entity description: Streams Standard is a web platform specification that defines a consistent, interoperable API for creating, composing, and consuming streaming data in JavaScript and web browsers.
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A.
River
"River" is a melancholic 1971 folk song by Joni Mitchell, often associated with the holiday season and emotional heartbreak.
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B.
Opalescent River
The Opalescent River is a scenic mountain river in New York’s Adirondack High Peaks region, known as one of the headwater streams contributing to the Hudson River.
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C.
Don River
The Don River is a significant waterway in Toronto, Ontario, that flows south through the city into Lake Ontario and has played an important role in its urban and environmental history.
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D.
China Brook
China Brook is a small tributary stream associated with New York’s Croton River watershed.
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E.
Yodo River
The Yodo River is a major waterway in Japan’s Kansai region that flows through Kyoto and Osaka, historically serving as an important route for transport, trade, and urban development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
JavaScript API specification
ⓘ
WHATWG Living Standard ⓘ web platform specification ⓘ |
| definesAPIForEnvironment |
Service workers
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Web browsers ⓘ Web workers ⓘ |
| definesAPIForLanguage | JavaScript ⓘ |
| definesConcept |
Async iterator integration for streams
ⓘ
BYOB reader ⓘ Backpressure ⓘ Brand checks for stream objects ⓘ Byte streams ⓘ ByteLengthQueuingStrategy ⓘ Cancelling a stream ⓘ Closing a stream ⓘ CountQueuingStrategy ⓘ Default reader ⓘ Erroring a stream ⓘ Locking a stream ⓘ PipeThrough operation ⓘ PipeTo operation ⓘ Piping streams ⓘ Queuing strategy ⓘ ReadableByteStreamController ⓘ ReadableStream ⓘ ReadableStreamBYOBReader ⓘ ReadableStreamBYOBRequest ⓘ ReadableStreamDefaultController ⓘ ReadableStreamDefaultReader ⓘ Teeing a readable stream ⓘ TransformStream ⓘ TransformStreamDefaultController ⓘ Underlying sink ⓘ Underlying source ⓘ Underlying transform ⓘ WritableStream ⓘ WritableStreamDefaultController ⓘ WritableStreamDefaultWriter ⓘ |
| goal | define a consistent interoperable API for streaming data ⓘ |
| maintainer |
WHATWG
ⓘ
surface form:
WHATWG Streams Working Group
|
| partOf |
WHATWG
ⓘ
surface form:
WHATWG web platform specifications
|
| publisher | WHATWG ⓘ |
| relatedSpecification |
Encoding Standard
ⓘ
Fetch Standard ⓘ Web IDL Standard ⓘ |
| shortName |
Streams Standard
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Streams
|
| supportsFeature |
backpressure-aware data flow
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composition of streams ⓘ consumption of streaming data ⓘ creation of streaming data sources ⓘ |
| title | Streams Standard self-link ⓘ |
| url | https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/ ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Fetch Standard
ⓘ
surface form:
Fetch API
Request.body ⓘ Response.body ⓘ Web APIs ⓘ
surface form:
Web platform streaming APIs
|
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: Streams Standard Description of subject: Streams Standard is a web platform specification that defines a consistent, interoperable API for creating, composing, and consuming streaming data in JavaScript and web browsers.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Streams