OGC WMS
E486220
OGC WMS (Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service) is a standard protocol for serving georeferenced map images over the internet from distributed geographic information systems.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Web Map Service | 10 |
| OGC WMS canonical | 6 |
| OGC Web Map Service specification | 2 |
| OGC API - Features | 1 |
| OGC Web Map Service | 1 |
| Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5017578 — 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: OGC WMS Context triple: [Oracle MapViewer, supportsStandard, OGC WMS]
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A.
OGC
OGC is the abbreviation for NASA’s Office of the General Counsel, the agency’s chief legal office responsible for providing legal advice and services.
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B.
OGC
OGC is the Office of General Counsel within the Office of Justice Programs, providing legal advice and services on justice-related programs and policies.
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C.
GeoServer
GeoServer is an open-source server application that allows users to share, process, and edit geospatial data using open standards such as WMS, WFS, and WCS.
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D.
WFS
WFS (Web Feature Service) is an OGC standard web service that provides access to and manipulation of geographic features over the internet in vector form.
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E.
MapServer
MapServer is an open-source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications on the web.
- 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: OGC WMS Target entity description: OGC WMS (Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service) is a standard protocol for serving georeferenced map images over the internet from distributed geographic information systems.
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A.
OGC
OGC is the abbreviation for NASA’s Office of the General Counsel, the agency’s chief legal office responsible for providing legal advice and services.
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B.
OGC
OGC is the Office of General Counsel within the Office of Justice Programs, providing legal advice and services on justice-related programs and policies.
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C.
GeoServer
GeoServer is an open-source server application that allows users to share, process, and edit geospatial data using open standards such as WMS, WFS, and WCS.
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D.
WFS
WFS (Web Feature Service) is an OGC standard web service that provides access to and manipulation of geographic features over the internet in vector form.
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E.
MapServer
MapServer is an open-source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications on the web.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
OGC standard
ⓘ
web map service standard ⓘ web service protocol ⓘ |
| abbreviation | WMS ⓘ |
| category |
OGC Web Service
ⓘ
geospatial web service ⓘ |
| definesParameter |
BBOX
ⓘ
CRS ⓘ FORMAT ⓘ HEIGHT ⓘ LAYERS ⓘ REQUEST ⓘ SERVICE ⓘ SRS ⓘ STYLES ⓘ TRANSPARENT ⓘ VERSION ⓘ WIDTH ⓘ |
| developedBy | Open Geospatial Consortium ⓘ |
| domain |
geographic information systems
ⓘ
web mapping ⓘ |
| enables | interoperable web mapping between different GIS software ⓘ |
| fullName |
Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service
ⓘ
linked to:
OGC WMS
|
| latestMajorVersion | 1.3.0 ⓘ |
| publisher | Open Geospatial Consortium ⓘ |
| purpose | serving georeferenced map images over the internet ⓘ |
| relatedStandard |
OGC SE
ⓘ
OGC SLD ⓘ OGC WCS ⓘ OGC WFS ⓘ
linked to:
WFS
OGC WMTS ⓘ
linked to:
WMTS
|
| returnsFormat |
GIF
ⓘ
JPEG ⓘ PNG ⓘ SVG ⓘ TIFF ⓘ map image ⓘ raster image ⓘ |
| serialization |
KVP encoding in URL
ⓘ
XML in POST requests ⓘ |
| standardizes | interface for requesting map images from GIS servers ⓘ |
| status | adopted OGC standard ⓘ |
| supportsCoordinateReferenceSystems | multiple CRS ⓘ |
| supportsLayer |
grouped layer
ⓘ
named map layer ⓘ |
| supportsOperation |
DescribeLayer
ⓘ
GetCapabilities ⓘ GetFeatureInfo ⓘ GetLegendGraphic ⓘ GetMap ⓘ GetStyles ⓘ PutStyles ⓘ |
| supportsRequestMethod |
HTTP GET
ⓘ
HTTP POST ⓘ |
| supportsStyle | named style ⓘ |
| supportsTiling | true ⓘ |
| supportsTransparency | true ⓘ |
| supportsVersion |
1.0.0
ⓘ
1.1.0 ⓘ 1.1.1 ⓘ 1.3.0 ⓘ |
| useCase |
overlay of multiple map layers from distributed servers
ⓘ
visualization of spatial data in web applications ⓘ |
| usesProtocol | HTTP ⓘ |
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: OGC WMS Description of subject: OGC WMS (Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service) is a standard protocol for serving georeferenced map images over the internet from distributed geographic information systems.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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