OGC SLD
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OGC SLD (Styled Layer Descriptor) is an Open Geospatial Consortium standard XML schema for defining the visual styling and rendering rules of map layers in web and GIS applications.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| OGC SLD canonical | 1 |
| Styled Layer Descriptor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5017580 — 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 SLD Context triple: [Oracle MapViewer, supportsStandard, OGC SLD]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Geography Markup Language
Geography Markup Language is an XML-based standard developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium for modeling, storing, and exchanging geographic information and spatial features.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- 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 SLD Target entity description: OGC SLD (Styled Layer Descriptor) is an Open Geospatial Consortium standard XML schema for defining the visual styling and rendering rules of map layers in web and GIS applications.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Geography Markup Language
Geography Markup Language is an XML-based standard developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium for modeling, storing, and exchanging geographic information and spatial features.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Open Geospatial Consortium standard
ⓘ
XML schema ⓘ geospatial styling standard ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SLD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| applicationArea |
digital cartography
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spatial data infrastructure ⓘ web-based mapping applications ⓘ |
| dataFormat | XML NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developedBy | Open Geospatial Consortium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| domain |
geographic information systems
ⓘ
web mapping ⓘ |
| enables |
interoperable map styling
ⓘ
separation of data and presentation in GIS ⓘ |
| fullName | Styled Layer Descriptor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBody | OGC Technical Committee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
FeatureTypeStyle element
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NamedLayer element ⓘ Rule element ⓘ StyledLayerDescriptor element ⓘ Symbolizer element ⓘ UserLayer element ⓘ UserStyle element ⓘ |
| publisher | Open Geospatial Consortium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedStandard |
OGC SE
NERFINISHED
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Styled Layer Descriptor profile of Web Map Service ⓘ |
| standardType | encoding specification ⓘ |
| status | adopted OGC standard ⓘ |
| supports |
coverage styling
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feature filtering ⓘ line symbolizers ⓘ point symbolizers ⓘ polygon symbolizers ⓘ raster data styling ⓘ raster symbolizers ⓘ rule-based styling ⓘ scale-dependent styling ⓘ symbolizers ⓘ text symbolizers ⓘ thematic mapping ⓘ vector data styling ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cartographic visualization
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defining rendering rules of map layers ⓘ defining visual styling of map layers ⓘ symbolization of geospatial data ⓘ |
| usedWith |
Web Feature Service
NERFINISHED
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Web Map Service NERFINISHED ⓘ desktop GIS software ⓘ web GIS servers ⓘ |
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 SLD Description of subject: OGC SLD (Styled Layer Descriptor) is an Open Geospatial Consortium standard XML schema for defining the visual styling and rendering rules of map layers in web and GIS applications.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Styled Layer Descriptor