Notifications API Standard
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The Notifications API Standard is a web specification that defines how websites and web applications can display system-level notifications to users in a consistent, permission-based way across browsers.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Notifications API | 6 |
| Notifications API Standard canonical | 3 |
| NotificationEvent | 1 |
| Notifications API specification | 1 |
| Push API | 1 |
| Web Notifications | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T380430 — 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: Notifications API Standard Context triple: [WHATWG, develops, Notifications API Standard]
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A.
Notification Center
Notification Center is a macOS feature that consolidates and displays system and app alerts, banners, and widgets in a unified sidebar for quick access.
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B.
BARD Mobile app
The BARD Mobile app is a specialized application that provides accessible audio and braille books and magazines to people who are blind, visually impaired, or print disabled.
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C.
Google Chat
Google Chat is a business-focused messaging platform by Google that supports direct messages, group conversations, and integrated collaboration within the Google Workspace ecosystem.
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D.
Nokki
Nokki is one of the four snow owl mascots created to represent the 1998 Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Japan.
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E.
Media Mail
Media Mail is a discounted U.S. Postal Service shipping option specifically for sending educational materials and media such as books, sound recordings, and DVDs.
- 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: Notifications API Standard Target entity description: The Notifications API Standard is a web specification that defines how websites and web applications can display system-level notifications to users in a consistent, permission-based way across browsers.
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A.
Notification Center
Notification Center is a macOS feature that consolidates and displays system and app alerts, banners, and widgets in a unified sidebar for quick access.
-
B.
BARD Mobile app
The BARD Mobile app is a specialized application that provides accessible audio and braille books and magazines to people who are blind, visually impaired, or print disabled.
-
C.
Google Chat
Google Chat is a business-focused messaging platform by Google that supports direct messages, group conversations, and integrated collaboration within the Google Workspace ecosystem.
-
D.
Nokki
Nokki is one of the four snow owl mascots created to represent the 1998 Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Japan.
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E.
Media Mail
Media Mail is a discounted U.S. Postal Service shipping option specifically for sending educational materials and media such as books, sound recordings, and DVDs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
W3C specification
ⓘ
Web standard ⓘ |
| allows |
Displaying notifications when a web app is closed but has a service worker
ⓘ
Displaying notifications when a web app is not in the foreground ⓘ |
| category |
Browser API
ⓘ
Client-side web technology ⓘ Web APIs ⓘ
surface form:
Web API
|
| defines |
JavaScript API for creating and managing notifications
ⓘ
Permission-based model for showing notifications to users ⓘ Web platform interface for displaying notifications ⓘ |
| exposesInterface |
Notification
ⓘ
Notifications API Standard self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
NotificationEvent
NotificationOptions dictionary ⓘ |
| fullName | Notifications API Standard self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| goal |
Allow web apps to notify users outside the active browser tab
ⓘ
Provide system-level notifications in a consistent way across browsers ⓘ |
| hasConstructor | Notification() ⓘ |
| hasEvent |
onclick
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onclose ⓘ onerror ⓘ onshow ⓘ |
| hasMethod | Notification.requestPermission() ⓘ |
| implementedIn |
Desktop browsers
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Mobile browsers ⓘ Web browsers ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Permissions API
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Push API ⓘ Service Workers ⓘ |
| partOf | Open Web Platform ⓘ |
| permissionStates |
default
ⓘ
denied ⓘ granted ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Permissions API specification
ⓘ
Push API ⓘ Service Workers ⓘ
surface form:
Service Workers specification
|
| requires | User permission to show notifications ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
W3C Working Group
ⓘ
surface form:
W3C Web Applications Working Group
World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ |
| status | Living standard ⓘ |
| supports |
Directionality of notification text
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Notification actions ⓘ Notification click events ⓘ Notification close events ⓘ Renotify behavior ⓘ Rich notifications with title, body, and icon ⓘ Silent notifications ⓘ Tagging of notifications ⓘ Vibration patterns on supported devices ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Progressive Web Apps
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Web applications ⓘ Websites ⓘ |
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: Notifications API Standard Description of subject: The Notifications API Standard is a web specification that defines how websites and web applications can display system-level notifications to users in a consistent, permission-based way across browsers.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Push API
this entity surface form:
Notifications API
Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group
→
developsStandard
→
Notifications API Standard
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subject surface form:
Notifications API
Notifications API Standard
→
exposesInterface
→
Notifications API Standard
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Notifications API
this entity surface form:
NotificationEvent
this entity surface form:
Notifications API
this entity surface form:
Notifications API
this entity surface form:
Notifications API specification
this entity surface form:
Web Notifications
this entity surface form:
Notifications API