Clipboard API
E555972
The Clipboard API is a modern web platform interface that allows websites to programmatically read from and write to the system clipboard in a secure, permission-controlled way.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clipboard API canonical | 4 |
| Async Clipboard API | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5922529 — 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: Clipboard API Context triple: [Web APIs, example, Clipboard API]
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A.
Universal Clipboard
Universal Clipboard is an Apple ecosystem feature that lets users copy content on one Apple device and paste it seamlessly onto another nearby device using the same iCloud account.
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B.
paste
paste is a GNU Core Utilities command-line tool that merges lines of input files horizontally, typically separating fields with a delimiter such as a tab.
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C.
Notepad
Notepad is a simple text-editing program for Windows that allows users to create and edit plain text files without formatting.
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D.
WordPad
WordPad is a basic word processing application for Microsoft Windows that offers more features than Notepad but fewer than full office suites like Microsoft Word.
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E.
App Clips
App Clips are lightweight, instant-launch versions of iOS apps that let users quickly access specific app functionality without installing the full application.
- 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: Clipboard API Target entity description: The Clipboard API is a modern web platform interface that allows websites to programmatically read from and write to the system clipboard in a secure, permission-controlled way.
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A.
Universal Clipboard
Universal Clipboard is an Apple ecosystem feature that lets users copy content on one Apple device and paste it seamlessly onto another nearby device using the same iCloud account.
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B.
paste
paste is a GNU Core Utilities command-line tool that merges lines of input files horizontally, typically separating fields with a delimiter such as a tab.
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C.
Notepad
Notepad is a simple text-editing program for Windows that allows users to create and edit plain text files without formatting.
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D.
WordPad
WordPad is a basic word processing application for Microsoft Windows that offers more features than Notepad but fewer than full office suites like Microsoft Word.
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E.
App Clips
App Clips are lightweight, instant-launch versions of iOS apps that let users quickly access specific app functionality without installing the full application.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Web API
ⓘ
Web platform feature ⓘ |
| availableIn |
Chromium-based browsers
ⓘ
Firefox (with varying support over time) ⓘ
linked to:
Mozilla Firefox
Safari (with varying support over time) ⓘ
linked to:
Safari
modern browsers ⓘ |
| category | Client-side web technology ⓘ |
| designedFor | asynchronous clipboard access ⓘ |
| designGoal |
improve security of clipboard access
ⓘ
provide explicit user control over clipboard access ⓘ provide richer clipboard formats ⓘ support asynchronous operations ⓘ |
| exposesInterface |
Clipboard
ⓘ
ClipboardItem ⓘ navigator.clipboard ⓘ |
| method |
ClipboardItem
ⓘ
navigator.clipboard.read ⓘ navigator.clipboard.readText ⓘ navigator.clipboard.write ⓘ navigator.clipboard.writeText ⓘ |
| partOf |
HTML Living Standard ecosystem
ⓘ
Web Platform ⓘ
linked to:
Open Web Platform
|
| permissionName |
clipboard-read
ⓘ
clipboard-write ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Async Clipboard API
ⓘ
linked to:
Clipboard API
Permissions API ⓘ document.execCommand API ⓘ |
| replaces |
document.execCommand('copy')
ⓘ
document.execCommand('paste') ⓘ |
| requires |
HTTPS
ⓘ
secure context ⓘ |
| returns | Promise ⓘ |
| securityModel |
permission-based
ⓘ
user-gesture requirement for some read operations ⓘ user-gesture requirement for write ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | WHATWG ⓘ |
| supportsDataType |
custom MIME types
ⓘ
image/png ⓘ text/html ⓘ text/plain ⓘ |
| supportsOperation |
read arbitrary clipboard data
ⓘ
read from system clipboard ⓘ readText ⓘ write arbitrary clipboard data ⓘ write to system clipboard ⓘ writeText ⓘ |
| useCase |
building web-based editors
ⓘ
copy and paste images ⓘ copy and paste rich text ⓘ copy and paste text ⓘ integrating with native clipboard workflows ⓘ |
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: Clipboard API Description of subject: The Clipboard API is a modern web platform interface that allows websites to programmatically read from and write to the system clipboard in a secure, permission-controlled way.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Clipboard API