XML API
E697148
XML API is a legacy HTTP-based interface for interacting with Google Cloud Storage using XML-formatted requests and responses, similar to Amazon S3’s API.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| XML API canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7932170 — 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: XML API Context triple: [Google Cloud Storage, provides, XML API]
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A.
SOAP API
A SOAP API is a web service interface that uses the SOAP protocol to enable structured, standards-based communication between applications over a network.
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B.
Web APIs
Web APIs are browser-provided interfaces that enable JavaScript to interact with web platform features such as the DOM, networking, storage, and multimedia beyond the core ECMAScript language.
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C.
REST API
A REST API is a web service interface that allows clients to interact with resources over HTTP using standard methods like GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE in a stateless, structured way.
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D.
Action API
Action API is a web-based interface provided by MediaWiki that allows developers to programmatically read, modify, and manage wiki content and configuration.
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E.
Apis
Apis is a genus of honey-producing bees best known for the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera), a key pollinator and major species in global apiculture.
- 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: XML API Target entity description: XML API is a legacy HTTP-based interface for interacting with Google Cloud Storage using XML-formatted requests and responses, similar to Amazon S3’s API.
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A.
SOAP API
A SOAP API is a web service interface that uses the SOAP protocol to enable structured, standards-based communication between applications over a network.
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B.
Web APIs
Web APIs are browser-provided interfaces that enable JavaScript to interact with web platform features such as the DOM, networking, storage, and multimedia beyond the core ECMAScript language.
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C.
REST API
A REST API is a web service interface that allows clients to interact with resources over HTTP using standard methods like GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE in a stateless, structured way.
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D.
Action API
Action API is a web-based interface provided by MediaWiki that allows developers to programmatically read, modify, and manage wiki content and configuration.
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E.
Apis
Apis is a genus of honey-producing bees best known for the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera), a key pollinator and major species in global apiculture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Google Cloud Storage interface
ⓘ
HTTP-based API ⓘ XML-based API ⓘ web API ⓘ |
| authenticationMethod |
HMAC key authentication
ⓘ
OAuth 2.0 (via interoperability features and headers) ⓘ signed URLs ⓘ |
| compatibilityGoal | S3-compatible semantics for storage operations ⓘ |
| documentationURL | https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/xml-api ⓘ |
| namingConvention | S3-style path and virtual-hosted-style URLs ⓘ |
| protocol | HTTP ⓘ |
| providedBy |
Google Cloud Platform
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Google Cloud Storage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| provider | Google NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recommendedAlternative |
Cloud Storage client libraries
ⓘ
JSON API ⓘ gcloud CLI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| requestFormat | XML ⓘ |
| resourceModel | buckets and objects ⓘ |
| responseFormat | XML ⓘ |
| similarTo | Amazon S3 REST API NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | legacy interface ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
access control via ACLs
ⓘ
customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) ⓘ customer-supplied encryption keys (CSEK) ⓘ multipart uploads (compose operations) ⓘ object metadata management ⓘ object versioning (when enabled on bucket) ⓘ signed URLs for temporary access ⓘ |
| supportsHeader |
x-goog-acl for predefined ACLs
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x-goog-encryption-* for encryption options ⓘ x-goog-meta-* for custom metadata ⓘ |
| supportsOperation |
DELETE Bucket
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DELETE Object ⓘ GET Bucket ⓘ GET Object ⓘ HEAD Object ⓘ PUT Bucket ⓘ PUT Object ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol | HTTP ⓘ |
| supportsRegionSelection | true ⓘ |
| transportLayer | HTTPS ⓘ |
| useCase |
accessing objects in Google Cloud Storage
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deleting objects in Google Cloud Storage ⓘ downloading objects from Google Cloud Storage ⓘ listing buckets in Google Cloud Storage ⓘ listing objects in a bucket ⓘ managing buckets in Google Cloud Storage ⓘ uploading objects to Google Cloud Storage ⓘ |
| usedFor | migrating applications from Amazon S3 to Google Cloud Storage ⓘ |
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: XML API Description of subject: XML API is a legacy HTTP-based interface for interacting with Google Cloud Storage using XML-formatted requests and responses, similar to Amazon S3’s API.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.