Places API
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Places API is a Google Maps web service that provides detailed information about geographic locations, including place search, details, photos, and autocomplete functionality for applications.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Google Maps Places API | 2 |
| Google Places API | 2 |
| Places API canonical | 2 |
| Maps Platform Places Library | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T576886 — 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: Places API Context triple: [Google Maps, supportsAPI, Places API]
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A.
Ville
Ville is a common Finnish male given name, especially prevalent in the late 20th century.
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B.
Larcomar
Larcomar is a popular cliffside shopping and entertainment center in Lima, Peru, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and known for its restaurants, boutiques, and ocean views.
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C.
Lakeview
Lakeview is a vibrant North Side Chicago neighborhood known for its lively entertainment scene, lakefront access, and diverse residential areas including Boystown and Wrigleyville.
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D.
Kutaisi
Kutaisi is one of Georgia’s major cities, historically significant and formerly a capital, located in the western part of the country.
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E.
Lakeside
Lakeside is an upscale seafood restaurant at the Wynn Las Vegas known for its lakefront views and fine dining experience.
- 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: Places API Target entity description: Places API is a Google Maps web service that provides detailed information about geographic locations, including place search, details, photos, and autocomplete functionality for applications.
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A.
Ville
Ville is a common Finnish male given name, especially prevalent in the late 20th century.
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B.
Larcomar
Larcomar is a popular cliffside shopping and entertainment center in Lima, Peru, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and known for its restaurants, boutiques, and ocean views.
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C.
Lakeview
Lakeview is a vibrant North Side Chicago neighborhood known for its lively entertainment scene, lakefront access, and diverse residential areas including Boystown and Wrigleyville.
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D.
Kutaisi
Kutaisi is one of Georgia’s major cities, historically significant and formerly a capital, located in the western part of the country.
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E.
Lakeside
Lakeside is an upscale seafood restaurant at the Wynn Las Vegas known for its lakefront views and fine dining experience.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Google Maps Platform API
ⓘ
web service ⓘ |
| accessedVia |
HTTP requests
ⓘ
RESTful endpoints ⓘ |
| developer | Google ⓘ |
| documentedAt | https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
photo download with maxheight parameter
ⓘ
photo download with maxwidth parameter ⓘ place autocomplete by search box widget ⓘ place autocomplete by text ⓘ query autocomplete ⓘ session-based autocomplete billing ⓘ |
| partOf |
Maps Platform Mobile SDKs
ⓘ
surface form:
Google Maps Platform
|
| provides |
place autocomplete
ⓘ
place details ⓘ place photos ⓘ place search ⓘ |
| requires |
API key
ⓘ
Google Cloud ⓘ
surface form:
Google Cloud project
|
| returns |
business status
ⓘ
contact information ⓘ formatted addresses ⓘ geographic coordinates ⓘ opening hours ⓘ phone numbers ⓘ photos metadata ⓘ place IDs ⓘ place names ⓘ place types ⓘ price level information ⓘ structured place data ⓘ user ratings ⓘ user reviews ⓘ website URLs ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
quota management
ⓘ
usage limits ⓘ |
| supports |
JSON responses
ⓘ
XML responses ⓘ geocoding-related place queries ⓘ nearby search for places ⓘ photo retrieval by reference ⓘ place ID lookup ⓘ place autocomplete predictions ⓘ reverse geocoding-related place queries ⓘ text search for places ⓘ |
| usedFor |
autocomplete address forms
ⓘ
local search features ⓘ location-based applications ⓘ points of interest discovery ⓘ store locator functionality ⓘ travel and tourism apps ⓘ |
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: Places API Description of subject: Places API is a Google Maps web service that provides detailed information about geographic locations, including place search, details, photos, and autocomplete functionality for applications.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Maps Platform Places Library
this entity surface form:
Google Maps Places API
this entity surface form:
Google Maps Places API
this entity surface form:
Google Places API
this entity surface form:
Google Places API