Pointer Events
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Pointer Events is a web standard that unifies mouse, touch, and pen input handling through a single, consistent event model for web applications.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pointer Events canonical | 1 |
| Pointer Events API | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10329194 — 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: Pointer Events Context triple: [Open Web Platform, hasComponent, Pointer Events]
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A.
Touch
Touch is an independent British record label known for its experimental, ambient, and avant-garde music releases.
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B.
Touch
Touch is an American drama television series that follows a widowed father who discovers his emotionally challenged son can predict future events through complex numerical patterns.
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C.
Touch
Touch is the 1988 debut studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan, blending ethereal vocals with atmospheric pop and folk influences.
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D.
Multi-Touch trackpad
A Multi-Touch trackpad is a touch-sensitive pointing device that recognizes multiple simultaneous finger gestures for precise cursor control and intuitive navigation.
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E.
Surface Mobile Mouse
The Surface Mobile Mouse is a compact, wireless Bluetooth mouse designed by Microsoft to complement Surface devices with precise tracking and portable, ergonomic use.
- 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: Pointer Events Target entity description: Pointer Events is a web standard that unifies mouse, touch, and pen input handling through a single, consistent event model for web applications.
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A.
Touch
Touch is an independent British record label known for its experimental, ambient, and avant-garde music releases.
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B.
Touch
Touch is an American drama television series that follows a widowed father who discovers his emotionally challenged son can predict future events through complex numerical patterns.
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C.
Touch
Touch is the 1988 debut studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan, blending ethereal vocals with atmospheric pop and folk influences.
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D.
Multi-Touch trackpad
A Multi-Touch trackpad is a touch-sensitive pointing device that recognizes multiple simultaneous finger gestures for precise cursor control and intuitive navigation.
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E.
Surface Mobile Mouse
The Surface Mobile Mouse is a compact, wireless Bluetooth mouse designed by Microsoft to complement Surface devices with precise tracking and portable, ergonomic use.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
DOM event model
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W3C specification ⓘ Web standard ⓘ |
| aimsTo | unify mouse, touch, and pen input ⓘ |
| benefit |
improves consistency across input devices
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reduces need for separate mouse and touch code paths ⓘ |
| compatibleWith | CSSOM View Module NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defines |
coalesced events
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height ⓘ hit testing behavior for pointers ⓘ isPrimary ⓘ pointer capture ⓘ pointerId ⓘ pointerType ⓘ predicted events ⓘ pressure ⓘ tangentialPressure ⓘ tiltX ⓘ tiltY ⓘ twist ⓘ width ⓘ |
| designedFor |
cross-device input handling
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web applications ⓘ |
| eventType |
gotpointercapture
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lostpointercapture ⓘ pointercancel ⓘ pointerdown ⓘ pointerenter ⓘ pointerleave ⓘ pointermove ⓘ pointerout ⓘ pointerover ⓘ pointerup ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
Pointer Events Level 1
NERFINISHED
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Pointer Events Level 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Pointer Events Level 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isDefinedIn | W3C Pointer Events specification NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| property |
pointerType=mouse
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pointerType=pen ⓘ pointerType=touch ⓘ |
| provides | unified event model ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Mouse Events
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Touch Events ⓘ |
| replaces | Mouse Events in many use cases ⓘ |
| standardizes |
mouse input handling
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pen input handling ⓘ touch input handling ⓘ |
| status | W3C Recommendation (Level 2) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uses | pointerId property to identify individual pointers ⓘ |
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: Pointer Events Description of subject: Pointer Events is a web standard that unifies mouse, touch, and pen input handling through a single, consistent event model for web applications.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Pointer Events API