OGC API - Coverages
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OGC API - Coverages is an Open Geospatial Consortium web API standard that defines how to access, query, and retrieve multi-dimensional geospatial coverage data (such as gridded or raster datasets) over the web.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| OGC API - Coverages canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10330013 — 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 API - Coverages Context triple: [Open Geospatial Consortium, standard, OGC API - Coverages]
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A.
OGC WMS
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
ONS Open Geography portal
The ONS Open Geography portal is an online platform providing access to official UK geographic data, boundaries, and related statistical geospatial resources published by the Office for National Statistics.
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E.
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.
- 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 API - Coverages Target entity description: OGC API - Coverages is an Open Geospatial Consortium web API standard that defines how to access, query, and retrieve multi-dimensional geospatial coverage data (such as gridded or raster datasets) over the web.
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A.
OGC WMS
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
ONS Open Geography portal
The ONS Open Geography portal is an online platform providing access to official UK geographic data, boundaries, and related statistical geospatial resources published by the Office for National Statistics.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
OGC standard
ⓘ
geospatial data standard ⓘ web API standard ⓘ |
| buildsOnConcept | coverage model from OGC Abstract Specification ⓘ |
| conformsTo | OGC API family of standards ⓘ |
| defines |
operations for querying coverage data
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operations for retrieving coverage data ⓘ web API for accessing geospatial coverages ⓘ |
| designPrinciple |
modular, extensible API design
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resource-oriented RESTful architecture ⓘ use of web-friendly encodings ⓘ |
| focusesOn | multi-dimensional geospatial coverage data ⓘ |
| goal |
enable interoperable access to coverage data over the web
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simplify implementation compared to legacy OGC web services ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
coordinate reference system selection
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coverage collection ⓘ coverage domain subsetting ⓘ coverage metadata ⓘ coverage range subsetting ⓘ |
| primaryProtocol | HTTP ⓘ |
| publisher | Open Geospatial Consortium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedStandard |
OGC API - Common
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
OGC API - Features NERFINISHED ⓘ OGC API - Tiles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replaces | parts of OGC Web Coverage Service ⓘ |
| shortName | OGC API Coverages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | OGC standard for coverage APIs ⓘ |
| supportsDataType |
gridded datasets
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multi-dimensional arrays ⓘ raster datasets ⓘ spatio-temporal coverages ⓘ |
| supportsOperation |
CRS negotiation
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coordinate-based subsetting ⓘ dimension-based subsetting ⓘ discovery of coverage collections ⓘ format negotiation ⓘ querying coverage subsets ⓘ range subsetting ⓘ retrieval of coverage data ⓘ |
| supportsUseCase |
climate and weather data services
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earth observation data access ⓘ environmental modeling ⓘ remote sensing data dissemination ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
developers of geospatial web services
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geospatial data providers ⓘ users of raster and gridded data services ⓘ |
| usesEncoding |
GeoJSON (for metadata and links where applicable)
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JSON NERFINISHED ⓘ coverage-specific binary formats ⓘ |
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 API - Coverages Description of subject: OGC API - Coverages is an Open Geospatial Consortium web API standard that defines how to access, query, and retrieve multi-dimensional geospatial coverage data (such as gridded or raster datasets) over the web.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.