WFS
E242850
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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WFS canonical | 3 |
| Web Feature Service | 3 |
| OGC WFS | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2175223 — 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: WFS Context triple: [GML, relatedTo, WFS]
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A.
WSF
WSF is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the Burgenlandkreis district in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
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B.
WSF
WSF is the commonly used abbreviation for Washington State Ferries, the largest ferry system in the United States serving routes across Puget Sound and nearby waterways.
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C.
FWS
FWS is a U.S. federal financial aid program that provides part-time jobs to eligible college students to help them pay for educational expenses.
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D.
WF
WF is the common abbreviation for Wikifunctions, a Wikimedia project aimed at creating a collaborative catalog of reusable functions.
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E.
FGw
FGw is the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, encompassing disciplines such as languages, history, philosophy, arts, and cultural studies.
- 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: WFS Target entity description: 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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A.
WSF
WSF is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the Burgenlandkreis district in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
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B.
WSF
WSF is the commonly used abbreviation for Washington State Ferries, the largest ferry system in the United States serving routes across Puget Sound and nearby waterways.
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C.
FWS
FWS is a U.S. federal financial aid program that provides part-time jobs to eligible college students to help them pay for educational expenses.
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D.
WF
WF is the common abbreviation for Wikifunctions, a Wikimedia project aimed at creating a collaborative catalog of reusable functions.
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E.
FGw
FGw is the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, encompassing disciplines such as languages, history, philosophy, arts, and cultural studies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
OGC standard
ⓘ
geospatial web service ⓘ web service specification ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf |
WFS
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Web Feature Service
|
| accessPattern | request-response ⓘ |
| backwardsCompatibility | later versions aim to be compatible with earlier versions ⓘ |
| dataEncoding |
GML
ⓘ
GeoJSON (via extensions or profiles) ⓘ |
| dataModel | vector data ⓘ |
| definedBy | Open Geospatial Consortium ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
OGC WMS
ⓘ
surface form:
Web Map Service
|
| domain |
geographic information systems
ⓘ
web mapping ⓘ |
| filterLanguage |
Open Geospatial Consortium
ⓘ
surface form:
OGC Filter Encoding
|
| fullName |
WFS
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Web Feature Service
|
| governedBy | OGC Web Services framework ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
access to geographic features over the internet
ⓘ
manipulation of geographic features over the internet ⓘ |
| relatedStandard |
Filter Encoding
ⓘ
GML ⓘ WCS ⓘ WMS ⓘ |
| returns |
feature-level data
ⓘ
geometry data ⓘ structured attribute data ⓘ |
| serviceBinding |
KVP over HTTP GET
ⓘ
XML over HTTP POST ⓘ |
| standardType | interface specification ⓘ |
| supportsAttributeQueries | true ⓘ |
| supportsCoordinateReferenceSystems | true ⓘ |
| supportsFiltering | true ⓘ |
| supportsOperation |
DescribeFeatureType
ⓘ
GetCapabilities ⓘ GetFeature ⓘ Geography Markup Language ⓘ
surface form:
GetGmlObject
LockFeature ⓘ delete ⓘ insert ⓘ query ⓘ transaction ⓘ update ⓘ |
| supportsSpatialQueries | true ⓘ |
| supportsTransactions | true ⓘ |
| transportProtocol |
HTTP
ⓘ
HTTPS ⓘ |
| typicalUseCase |
download of vector features for analysis
ⓘ
editing of spatial data over the web ⓘ integration of distributed spatial databases ⓘ |
| version |
1.0.0
ⓘ
1.1.0 ⓘ 2.0.0 ⓘ |
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: WFS Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
OGC WFS
this entity surface form:
Web Feature Service
this entity surface form:
Web Feature Service
this entity surface form:
OGC WFS