Google Maps Elevation API
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Google Maps Elevation API is a web service that provides elevation data for locations on the Earth's surface, enabling developers to retrieve altitude information for points, paths, and areas.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Google Maps Elevation API canonical | 1 |
| Google global elevation datasets | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7934101 — 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: Google Maps Elevation API Context triple: [Google APIs, includes, Google Maps Elevation API]
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A.
Tike's Peak
Tike's Peak is a kid-friendly, snow-themed play area at Disney's Blizzard Beach water park featuring shallow pools, mini slides, and gentle water features designed for young children.
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B.
Mount Hight
Mount Hight is a prominent peak in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, known for its open summit and expansive views within the Presidential Range–Dry River Wilderness.
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C.
Pitch Hill
Pitch Hill is a prominent wooded hill in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in southeast England, known for its scenic walking trails and expansive views over the surrounding countryside.
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D.
Mount Gessi
Mount Gessi is one of the prominent high peaks in the Rwenzori Mountains range of East Africa, known for its rugged alpine terrain and glaciated landscape.
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E.
Eagle Peak
Eagle Peak is the tallest mountain in Yellowstone National Park, offering rugged alpine terrain and expansive views over the surrounding wilderness.
- 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: Google Maps Elevation API Target entity description: Google Maps Elevation API is a web service that provides elevation data for locations on the Earth's surface, enabling developers to retrieve altitude information for points, paths, and areas.
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A.
Tike's Peak
Tike's Peak is a kid-friendly, snow-themed play area at Disney's Blizzard Beach water park featuring shallow pools, mini slides, and gentle water features designed for young children.
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B.
Mount Hight
Mount Hight is a prominent peak in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, known for its open summit and expansive views within the Presidential Range–Dry River Wilderness.
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C.
Pitch Hill
Pitch Hill is a prominent wooded hill in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in southeast England, known for its scenic walking trails and expansive views over the surrounding countryside.
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D.
Mount Gessi
Mount Gessi is one of the prominent high peaks in the Rwenzori Mountains range of East Africa, known for its rugged alpine terrain and glaciated landscape.
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E.
Eagle Peak
Eagle Peak is the tallest mountain in Yellowstone National Park, offering rugged alpine terrain and expansive views over the surrounding wilderness.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Google Maps Platform API
ⓘ
web service ⓘ |
| accessMethod | HTTP GET ⓘ |
| authenticationMethod | API key in URL or header ⓘ |
| billingModel | pay-as-you-go ⓘ |
| dataSource |
Google global elevation datasets
ⓘ
linked to:
Google Maps Elevation API
|
| developer | Google ⓘ |
| documentedAt | https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/elevation ⓘ |
| domain | geospatial data ⓘ |
| hasEndpoint | https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/elevation ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
error messages in responses
ⓘ
multiple locations per request ⓘ sampled elevation along paths ⓘ status codes in responses ⓘ support for encoded polylines ⓘ |
| hasQuota | usage limits per project ⓘ |
| input |
encoded polylines
ⓘ
latitude and longitude coordinates ⓘ |
| license | Google Maps Platform Terms of Service ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Google LLC
ⓘ
linked to:
Google
|
| partOf |
Google Maps Platform
ⓘ
linked to:
Google Maps
|
| provides |
altitude information
ⓘ
elevation data ⓘ elevation profiles ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Google Maps Directions API
ⓘ
linked to:
Distance Matrix API
Google Maps JavaScript API ⓘ Google Maps Roads API ⓘ
linked to:
Roads API
Google Maps Static Maps API ⓘ |
| requires |
API key
ⓘ
enabled billing account ⓘ project on Google Cloud Platform ⓘ |
| returns |
elevation values in meters
ⓘ
elevation values relative to sea level ⓘ |
| supports |
HTTP requests
ⓘ
JSON responses ⓘ XML responses ⓘ server-side integration ⓘ |
| targetUser |
GIS developers
ⓘ
software developers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
civil engineering applications
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environmental modeling ⓘ fitness and outdoor activity apps ⓘ retrieving elevation for areas ⓘ retrieving elevation for paths ⓘ retrieving elevation for points ⓘ route elevation profiling ⓘ terrain analysis ⓘ |
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: Google Maps Elevation API Description of subject: Google Maps Elevation API is a web service that provides elevation data for locations on the Earth's surface, enabling developers to retrieve altitude information for points, paths, and areas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Google Maps Elevation API