Notifications API Standard

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W3C specification Web standard

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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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Notifications API	9
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]

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.
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.

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.
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 API ⓘ linked to: Web APIs
defines	JavaScript API for creating and managing notifications ⓘ Permission-based model for showing notifications to users ⓘ Web platform interface for displaying notifications ⓘ
exposesInterface	Notification ⓘ NotificationEvent ⓘ linked to: Notifications API Standard NotificationOptions dictionary ⓘ
fullName	Notifications API Standard ⓘ
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 ⓘ onclose ⓘ onerror ⓘ onshow ⓘ
hasMethod	Notification.requestPermission() ⓘ
implementedIn	Desktop browsers ⓘ Mobile browsers ⓘ Web browsers ⓘ
integratesWith	Permissions API ⓘ Push API ⓘ Service Workers ⓘ
partOf	Open Web Platform ⓘ
permissionStates	default ⓘ denied ⓘ granted ⓘ
relatedTo	Permissions API specification ⓘ Push API ⓘ Service Workers specification ⓘ linked to: Service Workers
requires	User permission to show notifications ⓘ
standardizedBy	W3C Web Applications Working Group ⓘ linked to: W3C Working Group World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ
status	Living standard ⓘ
supports	Directionality of notification text ⓘ 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 ⓘ Web applications ⓘ Websites ⓘ

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