Web Audio API
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The Web Audio API is a high-level JavaScript API for creating, processing, and controlling audio in web applications, enabling complex audio effects, spatialization, and real-time audio synthesis directly in the browser.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Web Audio API canonical | 8 |
| AudioDestinationNode | 1 |
| AudioParam | 1 |
| BiquadFilterNode | 1 |
| ConvolverNode | 1 |
| OscillatorNode | 1 |
| Web Audio API specification (AudioWorklet section) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5922520 — 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: Web Audio API Context triple: [Web APIs, example, Web Audio API]
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A.
audioOS
audioOS is Apple’s specialized operating system designed to power and manage the features of its HomePod smart speakers.
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B.
SKAudioNode
SKAudioNode is a SpriteKit class used to play and control audio within 2D games and interactive scenes.
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C.
WebRTC
WebRTC is an open web technology that enables real-time audio, video, and data communication directly between browsers and devices without requiring plugins.
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D.
Core Sound
Core Sound is a shallow coastal lagoon and estuary along the central North Carolina coast, lying behind the Outer Banks barrier islands.
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E.
Sounds
Sounds was the short name of the Memphis Sounds, a former professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association (ABA) during the 1970s.
- 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: Web Audio API Target entity description: The Web Audio API is a high-level JavaScript API for creating, processing, and controlling audio in web applications, enabling complex audio effects, spatialization, and real-time audio synthesis directly in the browser.
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A.
audioOS
audioOS is Apple’s specialized operating system designed to power and manage the features of its HomePod smart speakers.
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B.
SKAudioNode
SKAudioNode is a SpriteKit class used to play and control audio within 2D games and interactive scenes.
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C.
WebRTC
WebRTC is an open web technology that enables real-time audio, video, and data communication directly between browsers and devices without requiring plugins.
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D.
Core Sound
Core Sound is a shallow coastal lagoon and estuary along the central North Carolina coast, lying behind the Outer Banks barrier islands.
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E.
Sounds
Sounds was the short name of the Memphis Sounds, a former professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association (ABA) during the 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
JavaScript API
ⓘ
W3C specification ⓘ audio processing API ⓘ web API ⓘ |
| basedOn | audio node graph ⓘ |
| coreConcept |
AnalyserNode
ⓘ
AudioBuffer ⓘ AudioBufferSourceNode ⓘ AudioContext ⓘ AudioDestinationNode ⓘ
linked to:
Web Audio API
AudioListener ⓘ AudioNode ⓘ AudioParam ⓘ
linked to:
Web Audio API
AudioWorklet ⓘ
linked to:
Worklet
AudioWorkletNode ⓘ BiquadFilterNode ⓘ
linked to:
Web Audio API
ChannelMergerNode ⓘ ChannelSplitterNode ⓘ ConvolverNode ⓘ
linked to:
Web Audio API
DelayNode ⓘ DynamicsCompressorNode ⓘ GainNode ⓘ IIRFilterNode ⓘ MediaElementAudioSourceNode ⓘ MediaStreamAudioDestinationNode ⓘ MediaStreamAudioSourceNode ⓘ OscillatorNode ⓘ
linked to:
Web Audio API
PannerNode ⓘ PeriodicWave ⓘ ScriptProcessorNode ⓘ StereoPannerNode ⓘ WaveShaperNode ⓘ |
| designedFor |
web applications
ⓘ
web browsers ⓘ |
| enables |
complex audio effects in the browser
ⓘ
game audio in web applications ⓘ interactive audio visualizations ⓘ music production tools in the browser ⓘ |
| goal | provide high-level audio capabilities for the web platform ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
3D spatial audio
ⓘ
support for decoding compressed audio formats via browser ⓘ support for multiple audio channels ⓘ support for various audio sample rates ⓘ time-based automation of parameters ⓘ |
| introduced | early 2010s ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
W3C Audio Working Group
ⓘ
linked to:
W3C Working Group
World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | JavaScript ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
HTMLMediaElement
ⓘ
Media Capture and Streams API ⓘ
linked to:
Media Capture and Streams specification
Web MIDI API ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | W3C Recommendation ⓘ |
| supports |
MIDI integration via Web MIDI API
ⓘ
audio analysis ⓘ audio effects ⓘ audio processing ⓘ audio routing graph ⓘ audio spatialization ⓘ offline audio rendering ⓘ real-time audio synthesis ⓘ sample-accurate scheduling ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Google Chrome
ⓘ
Microsoft Edge ⓘ Mozilla Firefox ⓘ Safari ⓘ |
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: Web Audio API Description of subject: The Web Audio API is a high-level JavaScript API for creating, processing, and controlling audio in web applications, enabling complex audio effects, spatialization, and real-time audio synthesis directly in the browser.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Web Audio API
linked to: Web Audio API
linked to: Web Audio API
linked to: Web Audio API
linked to: Web Audio API