Document Browser API
E521656
The Document Browser API is a system interface that lets apps present and manage user documents from various storage locations in a unified, file-browser-style view.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Document Browser API canonical | 1 |
| UIDocumentBrowserViewController | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5451863 — 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: Document Browser API Context triple: [Files, integratesWith, Document Browser API]
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A.
Iron Browser
Iron Browser is a Chromium-based web browser focused on enhancing user privacy and security by stripping out many of Google Chrome’s tracking and data-collection features.
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B.
SlimBrowser
SlimBrowser is a lightweight, tabbed web browser for Windows that was originally built on Internet Explorer’s Trident rendering engine and focuses on speed, customization, and privacy features.
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C.
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.
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D.
DOM
DOM is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to the Dominican Republic.
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E.
MDN Web Docs
MDN Web Docs is a comprehensive, community-driven documentation resource for web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, widely used by developers to learn and reference open web standards.
- 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: Document Browser API Target entity description: The Document Browser API is a system interface that lets apps present and manage user documents from various storage locations in a unified, file-browser-style view.
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A.
Iron Browser
Iron Browser is a Chromium-based web browser focused on enhancing user privacy and security by stripping out many of Google Chrome’s tracking and data-collection features.
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B.
SlimBrowser
SlimBrowser is a lightweight, tabbed web browser for Windows that was originally built on Internet Explorer’s Trident rendering engine and focuses on speed, customization, and privacy features.
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C.
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.
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D.
DOM
DOM is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to the Dominican Republic.
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E.
MDN Web Docs
MDN Web Docs is a comprehensive, community-driven documentation resource for web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, widely used by developers to learn and reference open web standards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
iOS API
ⓘ
software framework ⓘ system interface ⓘ |
| category | Apple developer technology ⓘ |
| designGoal |
centralize access to local and cloud storage
ⓘ
provide consistent document browsing across apps ⓘ reduce need for custom file browsers in apps ⓘ |
| documentationURL | https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uidocumentbrowserviewcontroller ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
File Provider framework
ⓘ
Files app ⓘ UIDocument ⓘ UIDocumentBrowserActionsController ⓘ |
| introducedIn | iOS 11 ⓘ |
| languageSupport |
Objective-C
ⓘ
Swift ⓘ |
| partOf | UIKit ⓘ |
| platform |
iOS
ⓘ
iPadOS ⓘ |
| primaryClass |
UIDocumentBrowserViewController
ⓘ
linked to:
Document Browser API
|
| providedBy |
Apple
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple Inc.
|
| purpose |
manage user documents from various storage locations
ⓘ
present user documents in a unified interface ⓘ provide a file-browser-style view of documents ⓘ |
| requires | entitlement for iCloud documents when using iCloud storage ⓘ |
| storageSources |
iCloud Drive
ⓘ
linked to:
iCloud
on-device storage ⓘ third-party cloud services ⓘ |
| supports | document-based apps ⓘ |
| supportsCustomization |
custom document actions
ⓘ
custom document metadata display ⓘ custom document thumbnails ⓘ custom document types ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
creating documents
ⓘ
deleting documents ⓘ document previews ⓘ document search ⓘ exporting documents ⓘ importing documents ⓘ moving documents ⓘ opening documents ⓘ recent documents list ⓘ renaming documents ⓘ tagging documents ⓘ third-party file provider integration ⓘ |
| supportsUI |
document collections
ⓘ
document pickers ⓘ grid view of documents ⓘ list view of documents ⓘ |
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: Document Browser API Description of subject: The Document Browser API is a system interface that lets apps present and manage user documents from various storage locations in a unified, file-browser-style view.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Files app
linked to: Document Browser API