Open Geospatial Consortium
E242849
The Open Geospatial Consortium is an international industry consortium that develops open standards for geospatial and location-based services and data interoperability.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Open Geospatial Consortium canonical | 8 |
| OGC | 1 |
| OGC API - Processes | 1 |
| OGC Abstract Specification | 1 |
| OGC Filter Encoding | 1 |
| OGC Web Service | 1 |
| Open GIS Consortium | 1 |
| Open Geospatial Consortium standards suite | 1 |
| OpenGIS Simple Features for SQL specification | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2175194 — 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: Open Geospatial Consortium Context triple: [GML, developedBy, Open Geospatial Consortium]
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A.
OGIS
OGIS is the U.S. federal office that mediates Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) disputes and oversees agency FOIA compliance to improve government transparency.
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B.
Open Knowledge Foundation
Open Knowledge Foundation is a global nonprofit organization that promotes open data and open knowledge to foster transparency, innovation, and civic engagement.
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C.
BGS OpenGeoscience
BGS OpenGeoscience is an online platform from the British Geological Survey providing free access to a wide range of UK geological data, maps, and digital resources.
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D.
National Spatial Reference System
The National Spatial Reference System is the official coordinate framework used in the United States to define precise locations, elevations, and boundaries for mapping, surveying, and navigation.
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E.
GIS
The Egyptian General Intelligence Service (GIS) is Egypt’s primary intelligence agency responsible for foreign intelligence gathering, national security, and covert operations.
- 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: Open Geospatial Consortium Target entity description: The Open Geospatial Consortium is an international industry consortium that develops open standards for geospatial and location-based services and data interoperability.
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A.
OGIS
OGIS is the U.S. federal office that mediates Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) disputes and oversees agency FOIA compliance to improve government transparency.
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B.
Open Knowledge Foundation
Open Knowledge Foundation is a global nonprofit organization that promotes open data and open knowledge to foster transparency, innovation, and civic engagement.
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C.
BGS OpenGeoscience
BGS OpenGeoscience is an online platform from the British Geological Survey providing free access to a wide range of UK geological data, maps, and digital resources.
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D.
National Spatial Reference System
The National Spatial Reference System is the official coordinate framework used in the United States to define precise locations, elevations, and boundaries for mapping, surveying, and navigation.
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E.
GIS
The Egyptian General Intelligence Service (GIS) is Egypt’s primary intelligence agency responsible for foreign intelligence gathering, national security, and covert operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international consortium
ⓘ
non-profit organization ⓘ standards organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Open Geospatial Consortium
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
OGC
|
| collaboratesWith |
International Organization for Standardization
ⓘ
Open Source Geospatial Foundation ⓘ World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ |
| field |
data interoperability
ⓘ
geographic information systems ⓘ geospatial standards ⓘ location-based services ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
data sharing
ⓘ
location information ⓘ open standards ⓘ service interoperability ⓘ |
| formerName |
Open Geospatial Consortium
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Open GIS Consortium
|
| hasHeadquartersLocation |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasMember |
government agencies
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non-profit organizations ⓘ private companies ⓘ research organizations ⓘ universities ⓘ |
| operatesIn | international ⓘ |
| purpose |
develop open standards for geospatial content and services
ⓘ
enable interoperability of geospatial data and services ⓘ support location-based services ⓘ |
| standard |
Catalogue Service for the Web
ⓘ
CityGML ⓘ Filter Encoding ⓘ GeoPackage ⓘ GeoSPARQL ⓘ Geography Markup Language ⓘ KML ⓘ
surface form:
Keyhole Markup Language
OGC API - Coverages ⓘ OGC WMS ⓘ
surface form:
OGC API - Features
Open Geospatial Consortium self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
OGC API - Processes
OGC API - Tiles ⓘ Observations and Measurements ⓘ Sensor Observation Service ⓘ SensorML ⓘ Simple Features ⓘ OGC SLD ⓘ
surface form:
Styled Layer Descriptor
Web Coverage Service ⓘ WFS ⓘ
surface form:
Web Feature Service
OGC WMS ⓘ
surface form:
Web Map Service
Web Processing Service ⓘ |
| website | https://www.ogc.org/ ⓘ |
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: Open Geospatial Consortium Description of subject: The Open Geospatial Consortium is an international industry consortium that develops open standards for geospatial and location-based services and data interoperability.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Open Geospatial Consortium standards suite
this entity surface form:
OpenGIS Simple Features for SQL specification
this entity surface form:
OGC
this entity surface form:
Open GIS Consortium
this entity surface form:
OGC API - Processes
this entity surface form:
OGC Filter Encoding
subject surface form:
ISO 19111
this entity surface form:
OGC Abstract Specification