XPath
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XPath is a query language used to navigate and select nodes in XML documents based on their structure and content.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| XPath canonical | 27 |
| XPath 1.0 | 3 |
| XML Path Language | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1096270 — 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: XPath Context triple: [XML Schema, relatedStandard, XPath]
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A.
XQuery
XQuery is a functional query and programming language designed for extracting and manipulating data from XML documents and related data sources.
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B.
XSLT
XSLT is a language for transforming XML documents into other formats such as XML, HTML, or plain text using template-based rules.
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C.
XML
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a flexible, text-based markup language designed for structuring, storing, and transporting data in a platform-independent way.
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D.
XML Namespaces
XML Namespaces is a W3C specification that provides a method for qualifying element and attribute names in XML documents to avoid naming conflicts between vocabularies.
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E.
XHTML
XHTML is a reformulation of HTML as an XML-based markup language designed to create structured, standards-compliant web pages.
- 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: XPath Target entity description: XPath is a query language used to navigate and select nodes in XML documents based on their structure and content.
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A.
XQuery
XQuery is a functional query and programming language designed for extracting and manipulating data from XML documents and related data sources.
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B.
XSLT
XSLT is a language for transforming XML documents into other formats such as XML, HTML, or plain text using template-based rules.
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C.
XML
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a flexible, text-based markup language designed for structuring, storing, and transporting data in a platform-independent way.
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D.
XML Namespaces
XML Namespaces is a W3C specification that provides a method for qualifying element and attribute names in XML documents to avoid naming conflicts between vocabularies.
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E.
XHTML
XHTML is a reformulation of HTML as an XML-based markup language designed to create structured, standards-compliant web pages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
W3C standard
ⓘ
XML technology ⓘ query language ⓘ |
| abbreviation | XPath ⓘ |
| canBeEmbeddedIn | programming languages via libraries ⓘ |
| designedFor | XML ⓘ |
| developedBy | World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ |
| expressionSyntax | path-like notation using / separators ⓘ |
| fullName |
XML Path Language
ⓘ
linked to:
XPath
|
| hasAxis |
ancestor
ⓘ
ancestor-or-self ⓘ attribute ⓘ child ⓘ descendant ⓘ descendant-or-self ⓘ following-sibling ⓘ parent ⓘ preceding-sibling ⓘ self ⓘ |
| hasDataModel |
XPath Data Model
ⓘ
linked to:
XDM (XQuery and XPath Data Model)
|
| hasVersion |
XPath 1.0
ⓘ
linked to:
XPath
XPath 2.0 ⓘ XPath 3.0 ⓘ XPath 3.1 ⓘ |
| influenced |
CSS selectors
ⓘ
linked to:
CSS
JSONPath ⓘ XQuery ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
filter XML nodes based on conditions
ⓘ
navigate XML document structure ⓘ select nodes from XML documents ⓘ |
| releasedIn |
1999
ⓘ
2007 ⓘ |
| returnType |
boolean
ⓘ
node set ⓘ number ⓘ string ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
W3C
ⓘ
linked to:
World Wide Web Consortium
W3C ⓘ
linked to:
World Wide Web Consortium
W3C ⓘ
linked to:
World Wide Web Consortium
W3C ⓘ
linked to:
World Wide Web Consortium
W3C ⓘ
linked to:
World Wide Web Consortium
|
| supports |
axes
ⓘ
boolean operations ⓘ functions ⓘ namespace-aware queries ⓘ node tests ⓘ numeric operations ⓘ path expressions ⓘ predicates ⓘ string operations ⓘ |
| typicalImplementationLanguage |
C#
ⓘ
Java ⓘ JavaScript ⓘ Python ⓘ |
| usedIn |
XML-based data formats
ⓘ
configuration files ⓘ web services ⓘ |
| usedWith |
XML Schema
ⓘ
XPointer ⓘ XQuery ⓘ XSLT ⓘ |
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: XPath Description of subject: XPath is a query language used to navigate and select nodes in XML documents based on their structure and content.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.