Geocoding API
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The Geocoding API is a Google Maps web service that converts between human-readable addresses and geographic coordinates for use in mapping and location-based applications.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Geocoding API canonical | 3 |
| Google Maps Geocoding API | 3 |
| Google Geocoding API | 1 |
| Google Maps Geocoding service | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T576885 — 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: Geocoding API Context triple: [Google Maps, supportsAPI, Geocoding API]
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A.
MapQuest
MapQuest is an early online mapping and driving directions service that became one of the first widely used web-based navigation tools.
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B.
Bing Maps
Bing Maps is Microsoft's web-based mapping and navigation service offering road maps, aerial imagery, directions, and location-based search.
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C.
Google Maps
Google Maps is a web-based mapping and navigation service by Google that provides detailed maps, real-time GPS navigation, traffic conditions, and location search worldwide.
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D.
Waze
Waze is a community-driven GPS navigation app that provides real-time traffic updates, route guidance, and incident reports from its users.
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E.
Transport Focus
Transport Focus is an independent watchdog organization in Great Britain that represents the interests of transport users, particularly rail, bus, and road passengers, by monitoring services and advocating for improvements.
- 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: Geocoding API Target entity description: The Geocoding API is a Google Maps web service that converts between human-readable addresses and geographic coordinates for use in mapping and location-based applications.
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A.
MapQuest
MapQuest is an early online mapping and driving directions service that became one of the first widely used web-based navigation tools.
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B.
Bing Maps
Bing Maps is Microsoft's web-based mapping and navigation service offering road maps, aerial imagery, directions, and location-based search.
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C.
Google Maps
Google Maps is a web-based mapping and navigation service by Google that provides detailed maps, real-time GPS navigation, traffic conditions, and location search worldwide.
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D.
Waze
Waze is a community-driven GPS navigation app that provides real-time traffic updates, route guidance, and incident reports from its users.
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E.
Transport Focus
Transport Focus is an independent watchdog organization in Great Britain that represents the interests of transport users, particularly rail, bus, and road passengers, by monitoring services and advocating for improvements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Google Maps Platform API
ⓘ
web service ⓘ |
| accessedVia |
HTTP
ⓘ
HTTPS ⓘ |
| authenticationMethod | API key in URL ⓘ |
| billingModel | pay-as-you-go ⓘ |
| convertsFrom | human-readable addresses ⓘ |
| convertsTo | geographic coordinates ⓘ |
| developer | Google ⓘ |
| documentationURL | https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding ⓘ |
| endpoint |
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json
ⓘ
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml ⓘ |
| hasQuota | usage limits per project ⓘ |
| hasType | geocoding service ⓘ |
| partOf |
Geocoding API
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Google Maps Geocoding service
Maps Platform Web Services ⓘ
surface form:
Google Maps Platform web services
|
| providedBy |
Google Maps
ⓘ
surface form:
Google Maps Platform
|
| requires |
API key
ⓘ
Google Cloud ⓘ
surface form:
Google Cloud project
|
| returns |
address components
ⓘ
formatted address ⓘ geometry information ⓘ latitude ⓘ longitude ⓘ place ID ⓘ |
| supportsClientSideUse | restricted and discouraged ⓘ |
| supportsComponentFiltering | true ⓘ |
| supportsFormat |
JSON
ⓘ
XML ⓘ |
| supportsLanguageLocalization | true ⓘ |
| supportsOperation |
forward geocoding
ⓘ
reverse geocoding ⓘ |
| supportsParameter |
address
ⓘ
bounds ⓘ components ⓘ key ⓘ language ⓘ latlng ⓘ location_type ⓘ place_id ⓘ region ⓘ result_type ⓘ |
| supportsPartialMatch | true ⓘ |
| supportsRegionBiasing | true ⓘ |
| supportsServerSideUse | true ⓘ |
| usedFor |
address validation
ⓘ
geospatial analysis ⓘ location-based applications ⓘ mapping applications ⓘ |
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: Geocoding API Description of subject: The Geocoding API is a Google Maps web service that converts between human-readable addresses and geographic coordinates for use in mapping and location-based applications.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Google Maps Geocoding service
this entity surface form:
Google Maps Geocoding API
this entity surface form:
Google Maps Geocoding API
this entity surface form:
Google Geocoding API
this entity surface form:
Google Maps Geocoding API