GeoURL
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GeoURL is a location-based web directory and geotagging service that allowed websites and blogs to be indexed and discovered based on their geographic coordinates, created by Joshua Schachter.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GeoURL canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4832228 — 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: GeoURL Context triple: [Joshua Schachter, notableWork, GeoURL]
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A.
Geo
Geo is a short form of the given name Georges, often used as an informal or familiar nickname.
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B.
OGLE
OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) is a long-term astronomical survey focused on detecting dark matter, exoplanets, and variable stars through gravitational microlensing and photometric monitoring.
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C.
Getlink
Getlink is a French-based company that owns and operates the infrastructure of the Channel Tunnel rail link between the United Kingdom and continental Europe.
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D.
Google Earth
Google Earth is a virtual globe and mapping application that lets users explore detailed satellite imagery, 3D terrain, and geographic information for locations around the world.
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E.
GoTo.com
GoTo.com was an early internet search engine and pay-per-click advertising pioneer that later became known as Overture Services.
- 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: GeoURL Target entity description: GeoURL is a location-based web directory and geotagging service that allowed websites and blogs to be indexed and discovered based on their geographic coordinates, created by Joshua Schachter.
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A.
Geo
Geo is a short form of the given name Georges, often used as an informal or familiar nickname.
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B.
OGLE
OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) is a long-term astronomical survey focused on detecting dark matter, exoplanets, and variable stars through gravitational microlensing and photometric monitoring.
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C.
Getlink
Getlink is a French-based company that owns and operates the infrastructure of the Channel Tunnel rail link between the United Kingdom and continental Europe.
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D.
Google Earth
Google Earth is a virtual globe and mapping application that lets users explore detailed satellite imagery, 3D terrain, and geographic information for locations around the world.
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E.
GoTo.com
GoTo.com was an early internet search engine and pay-per-click advertising pioneer that later became known as Overture Services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geotagging service
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location-based web directory ⓘ website ⓘ |
| accessibleVia | web browser ⓘ |
| basedOn | user-supplied location metadata ⓘ |
| category |
geotagging platform
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location-based service ⓘ web directory ⓘ |
| creator | Joshua Schachter ⓘ |
| dataType |
URLs
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geographic coordinates ⓘ location metadata ⓘ |
| developer | Joshua Schachter ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
geographic discovery of blogs
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geographic indexing of websites ⓘ geotagging of web content ⓘ reverse geocoding of websites ⓘ search by geographic coordinates ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
blog indexing
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geolocation ⓘ web directories ⓘ |
| operatesOn |
weblogs
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websites ⓘ |
| purpose |
to allow websites to be discovered by geographic location
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to index blogs based on geographic coordinates ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Joshua Schachter
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blog directories ⓘ geotagging ⓘ location-based services ⓘ |
| uses |
latitude and longitude coordinates
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meta tags for location data ⓘ |
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: GeoURL Description of subject: GeoURL is a location-based web directory and geotagging service that allowed websites and blogs to be indexed and discovered based on their geographic coordinates, created by Joshua Schachter.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.