Device Orientation Events
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Device Orientation Events is a web API that lets web applications access sensor data about a device’s physical orientation and motion, enabling features like tilt-based controls and augmented reality experiences.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Device Orientation Events canonical | 2 |
| Device Orientation API | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10329257 — 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: Device Orientation Events Context triple: [Open Web Platform, hasComponent, Device Orientation Events]
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A.
Device Stage
Device Stage is a Windows feature that provides a centralized, task-based interface for managing and interacting with connected devices such as printers, cameras, and phones.
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B.
Motion Sense
Motion Sense is Google’s radar-based gesture control and presence detection technology that lets users interact with Pixel phones using hand movements without touching the screen.
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C.
Opera Mobile
Opera Mobile is a mobile web browser developed by Opera Software, known for its speed, data compression, and support for advanced web standards on smartphones and tablets.
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D.
HTML meta viewport element
The HTML meta viewport element is a meta tag used in responsive web design to control how a webpage is scaled and displayed on different devices, especially mobile screens.
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E.
Mobile
Mobile is a small coastal community in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, located on the Avalon Peninsula south of St. John’s.
- 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: Device Orientation Events Target entity description: Device Orientation Events is a web API that lets web applications access sensor data about a device’s physical orientation and motion, enabling features like tilt-based controls and augmented reality experiences.
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A.
Device Stage
Device Stage is a Windows feature that provides a centralized, task-based interface for managing and interacting with connected devices such as printers, cameras, and phones.
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B.
Motion Sense
Motion Sense is Google’s radar-based gesture control and presence detection technology that lets users interact with Pixel phones using hand movements without touching the screen.
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C.
Opera Mobile
Opera Mobile is a mobile web browser developed by Opera Software, known for its speed, data compression, and support for advanced web standards on smartphones and tablets.
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D.
HTML meta viewport element
The HTML meta viewport element is a meta tag used in responsive web design to control how a webpage is scaled and displayed on different devices, especially mobile screens.
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E.
Mobile
Mobile is a small coastal community in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, located on the Avalon Peninsula south of St. John’s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Web API specification
ⓘ
browser feature ⓘ |
| accessedVia | addEventListener in JavaScript ⓘ |
| apiStyle | event-driven API ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem |
Earth frame
ⓘ
device frame ⓘ |
| defines |
acceleration data
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accelerationIncludingGravity data ⓘ alpha beta gamma orientation angles ⓘ rotationRate data ⓘ |
| documentedAt | MDN Web Docs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eventType |
devicemotion
ⓘ
deviceorientation ⓘ deviceorientationabsolute ⓘ |
| exposedIn | Window interface NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exposes |
absolute orientation flag
ⓘ
interval property for motion events ⓘ |
| hasEventTarget | window object ⓘ |
| hasIssue |
fingerprinting risks
ⓘ
inconsistent implementation across browsers ⓘ privacy concerns ⓘ |
| partOf | Web Platform NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propertyOf | Navigator.hardwareConcurrency is unrelated ⓘ |
| provides |
devicemotion event
ⓘ
deviceorientation event ⓘ deviceorientationabsolute event ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
DeviceMotionEvent interface
NERFINISHED
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DeviceOrientationEvent interface NERFINISHED ⓘ Generic Sensor API NERFINISHED ⓘ Screen Orientation API NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| requires |
accelerometer
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device sensors ⓘ gyroscope ⓘ magnetometer ⓘ |
| securityModel |
requires user permission in many browsers
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subject to secure context requirements in modern browsers ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | W3C NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | subject to deprecation discussions for some event types ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
mobile browsers
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some desktop browsers ⓘ |
| typicalUseCase |
motion-controlled games
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orientation-aware UI layouts ⓘ web-based AR viewers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
accessing device motion data
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accessing device orientation data ⓘ augmented reality experiences ⓘ gaming controls ⓘ motion-based user interfaces ⓘ tilt-based controls ⓘ |
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: Device Orientation Events Description of subject: Device Orientation Events is a web API that lets web applications access sensor data about a device’s physical orientation and motion, enabling features like tilt-based controls and augmented reality experiences.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Device Orientation API