History API
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The History API is a browser feature that lets web applications manipulate the session history (such as adding and modifying entries and URLs) without causing full page reloads.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| History API canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5922526 — 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: History API Context triple: [Web APIs, example, History API]
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A.
History
"History" is a 1973 poetry collection by American poet Robert Lowell, known for its dense, allusive meditations on personal and historical experience.
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B.
History
History is an American cable television network known for broadcasting documentaries, reality series, and dramatizations focused on historical events and topics.
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C.
Living History
Living History is a memoir by Hillary Rodham Clinton recounting her early life, years as First Lady of the United States, and key political and personal experiences up to her 2000 Senate campaign.
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D.
Histories
Histories is a major work of Roman historiography by Tacitus that chronicles the turbulent period of the Roman Empire following the death of Nero.
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E.
Histories
Histories is an ancient Greek work by Herodotus that is widely regarded as the foundational text of Western historiography, combining historical inquiry with ethnographic and geographic descriptions.
- 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: History API Target entity description: The History API is a browser feature that lets web applications manipulate the session history (such as adding and modifying entries and URLs) without causing full page reloads.
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A.
History
"History" is a 1973 poetry collection by American poet Robert Lowell, known for its dense, allusive meditations on personal and historical experience.
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B.
History
History is an American cable television network known for broadcasting documentaries, reality series, and dramatizations focused on historical events and topics.
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C.
Living History
Living History is a memoir by Hillary Rodham Clinton recounting her early life, years as First Lady of the United States, and key political and personal experiences up to her 2000 Senate campaign.
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D.
Histories
Histories is a major work of Roman historiography by Tacitus that chronicles the turbulent period of the Roman Empire following the death of Nero.
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E.
Histories
Histories is the major historical work of the ancient Greek historian Polybius, chronicling the rise of the Roman Republic to Mediterranean dominance in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Browser feature
ⓘ
Web API ⓘ |
| affects |
Browser address bar
ⓘ
Browser back button behavior ⓘ Browser forward button behavior ⓘ |
| allows |
Changing the fragment identifier
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Changing the path component of the URL ⓘ Changing the query component of the URL ⓘ |
| avoids | Full page reloads ⓘ |
| benefit |
Better integration with browser navigation controls
ⓘ
Enables bookmarkable dynamic pages ⓘ Enables shareable URLs for application state ⓘ Improved user experience ⓘ |
| category |
Browser history management
ⓘ
Client-side web technology ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
Most modern desktop browsers
ⓘ
Most modern mobile browsers ⓘ |
| definedIn | HTML Living Standard ⓘ |
| documentedAt | MDN Web Docs ⓘ |
| enables |
Back and forward navigation integration
ⓘ
Dynamic URL updates ⓘ Single-page application navigation ⓘ |
| exposedVia | window.history ⓘ |
| hasMethod |
history.back()
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history.forward() ⓘ history.go() ⓘ history.pushState() ⓘ history.replaceState() ⓘ |
| hasProperty | history.length ⓘ |
| introducedWith | HTML5 era browsers ⓘ |
| partOf | HTML5 specification ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
Changing the URL without full page reload
ⓘ
Manipulating session history ⓘ |
| providedBy | Web browsers ⓘ |
| relatedEvent | popstate ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Hash-based navigation
ⓘ
Location interface ⓘ |
| requires | JavaScript ⓘ |
| restriction |
Cannot change origin
ⓘ
Subject to same-origin policy ⓘ |
| supports |
Adding history entries
ⓘ
Modifying history entries ⓘ Navigating through session history ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Client-side routers
ⓘ
Single-page applications ⓘ |
| usesConcept |
Document URL
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History entry ⓘ Session history ⓘ State object ⓘ |
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: History API Description of subject: The History API is a browser feature that lets web applications manipulate the session history (such as adding and modifying entries and URLs) without causing full page reloads.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.