HTML Living Standard
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The HTML Living Standard is the continuously updated, authoritative specification for the HTML language maintained by the WHATWG to define how web content is structured and behaves across browsers.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HTML Living Standard canonical | 22 |
| HTML Standard | 9 |
| WHATWG HTML Living Standard | 7 |
| HTML specification | 3 |
| WHATWG HTML specification | 3 |
| HTML Living Standard ecosystem | 2 |
| HTML5 specification at WHATWG | 1 |
| WHATWG HTML | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T380421 — 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: HTML Living Standard Context triple: [WHATWG, develops, HTML Living Standard]
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A.
HTML5
HTML5 is the fifth major version of the HyperText Markup Language standard, introducing modern web features such as semantic elements, native audio and video, and enhanced APIs for building rich, interactive web applications.
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HTML
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard markup language used to structure and present content on the World Wide Web.
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WHATWG
WHATWG is a community-driven standards organization that develops and maintains key web technologies, including the living standard for HTML.
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XHTML
XHTML is a reformulation of HTML as an XML-based markup language designed to create structured, standards-compliant web pages.
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E.
DOM
The Document Object Model (DOM) is a platform- and language-neutral interface that represents structured documents like HTML and XML as a tree of objects, enabling programs and scripts to dynamically access and update their content and structure.
- 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: HTML Living Standard Target entity description: The HTML Living Standard is the continuously updated, authoritative specification for the HTML language maintained by the WHATWG to define how web content is structured and behaves across browsers.
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A.
HTML5
HTML5 is the fifth major version of the HyperText Markup Language standard, introducing modern web features such as semantic elements, native audio and video, and enhanced APIs for building rich, interactive web applications.
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B.
HTML
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard markup language used to structure and present content on the World Wide Web.
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C.
WHATWG
WHATWG is a community-driven standards organization that develops and maintains key web technologies, including the living standard for HTML.
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D.
XHTML
XHTML is a reformulation of HTML as an XML-based markup language designed to create structured, standards-compliant web pages.
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E.
DOM
The Document Object Model (DOM) is a platform- and language-neutral interface that represents structured documents like HTML and XML as a tree of objects, enabling programs and scripts to dynamically access and update their content and structure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
HTML specification
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technical standard ⓘ web standard ⓘ |
| defines |
DOM APIs related to HTML
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HTML attributes ⓘ HTML content models ⓘ HTML elements ⓘ HTML event handlers ⓘ HTML forms processing ⓘ URL handling in HTML documents ⓘ
linked to:
URL Standard
accessibility-related semantics for HTML elements ⓘ browsing context ⓘ canvas 2D API ⓘ constraint validation model ⓘ custom data attributes ⓘ document lifecycle ⓘ drag and drop processing model ⓘ editing APIs and contenteditable behavior ⓘ focus management ⓘ history traversal ⓘ iframe behavior ⓘ interaction with CSS ⓘ interaction with JavaScript ⓘ link types ⓘ media elements behavior ⓘ metadata content ⓘ microdata model ⓘ navigation algorithm ⓘ navigation timing hooks for HTML ⓘ origin concept ⓘ parsing rules for HTML documents ⓘ parsing rules for HTML fragments ⓘ processing model for HTML ⓘ resource fetching for HTML ⓘ same-origin policy details for HTML ⓘ scripting model for HTML ⓘ semantics of HTML ⓘ session history ⓘ syntax of HTML ⓘ video and audio elements behavior ⓘ web storage API ⓘ |
| describes | HTML language ⓘ |
| fullName | HTML Living Standard ⓘ |
| goal | ensure consistent HTML processing in user agents ⓘ |
| governingBody |
WHATWG Steering Group
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linked to:
WHATWG
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| maintainedBy | WHATWG ⓘ |
| predecessor |
HTML5 W3C Recommendation
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linked to:
HTML5
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| primaryAudience | browser implementers ⓘ |
| scope | interoperable behavior across browsers ⓘ |
| secondaryAudience | web developers ⓘ |
| shortName | HTML ⓘ |
| status | living standard ⓘ |
| updateModel | continuously updated ⓘ |
| url | https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ ⓘ |
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: HTML Living Standard Description of subject: The HTML Living Standard is the continuously updated, authoritative specification for the HTML language maintained by the WHATWG to define how web content is structured and behaves across browsers.
Referenced by (48)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Hixie
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Hixie
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canvas 2D API
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canvas 2D API
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MessageEvent interface
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MessageEvent interface
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Window interface
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OffscreenCanvas (in supporting browsers)
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OffscreenCanvas (in supporting browsers)
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