Waze
E72080
Waze is a community-driven GPS navigation app that provides real-time traffic updates, route guidance, and incident reports from its users.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waze canonical | 11 |
| Waze Mobile | 2 |
| Waze Carpool | 1 |
| Waze navigation app | 1 |
| co-founding Waze | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T575372 — 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: Waze Context triple: [Android Auto, supportsNavigationApp, Waze]
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A.
MapQuest
MapQuest is an early online mapping and driving directions service that became one of the first widely used web-based navigation tools.
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B.
Transport Focus
Transport Focus is an independent watchdog organization in Great Britain that represents the interests of transport users, particularly rail, bus, and road passengers, by monitoring services and advocating for improvements.
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C.
Bing Maps
Bing Maps is Microsoft's web-based mapping and navigation service offering road maps, aerial imagery, directions, and location-based search.
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D.
Google Maps
Google Maps is a web-based mapping and navigation service by Google that provides detailed maps, real-time GPS navigation, traffic conditions, and location search worldwide.
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E.
Apple Maps
Apple Maps is Apple's proprietary mapping and navigation service that provides turn-by-turn directions, real-time traffic data, and location search across Apple devices.
- 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: Waze Target entity description: Waze is a community-driven GPS navigation app that provides real-time traffic updates, route guidance, and incident reports from its users.
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A.
MapQuest
MapQuest is an early online mapping and driving directions service that became one of the first widely used web-based navigation tools.
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B.
Transport Focus
Transport Focus is an independent watchdog organization in Great Britain that represents the interests of transport users, particularly rail, bus, and road passengers, by monitoring services and advocating for improvements.
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C.
Bing Maps
Bing Maps is Microsoft's web-based mapping and navigation service offering road maps, aerial imagery, directions, and location-based search.
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D.
Google Maps
Google Maps is a web-based mapping and navigation service by Google that provides detailed maps, real-time GPS navigation, traffic conditions, and location search worldwide.
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E.
Apple Maps
Apple Maps is Apple's proprietary mapping and navigation service that provides turn-by-turn directions, real-time traffic data, and location search across Apple devices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
GPS navigation software
ⓘ
mobile application ⓘ traffic and navigation app ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Google LLC
ⓘ
linked to:
Google
|
| acquisitionDate | 2013 ⓘ |
| availableIn | multiple languages ⓘ |
| businessModel | ad-supported ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Israel ⓘ |
| dataSource |
GPS data from users
ⓘ
crowdsourced user data ⓘ third-party traffic data ⓘ |
| developer |
Google LLC
ⓘ
linked to:
Google
Waze Mobile ⓘ
linked to:
Waze
|
| feature |
ETA calculation
ⓘ
automatic rerouting ⓘ carpooling service ⓘ crowdsourced incident reports ⓘ integration with music streaming apps ⓘ map editing by community ⓘ real-time traffic information ⓘ speed camera alerts ⓘ turn-by-turn navigation ⓘ user-reported accidents ⓘ user-reported police presence ⓘ user-reported road hazards ⓘ user-reported traffic jams ⓘ voice-guided navigation ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Amir Shinar
ⓘ
Ehud Shabtai ⓘ Uri Levine ⓘ |
| genre |
navigation software
ⓘ
social mapping service ⓘ |
| hasCommunity |
localization volunteers
ⓘ
map editors ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Tel Aviv ⓘ |
| initialReleaseDate | 2009 ⓘ |
| license | proprietary software ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
Waze Carpool
ⓘ
linked to:
Waze
|
| ownedBy |
Google LLC
ⓘ
linked to:
Google
|
| parentCompany |
Google LLC
ⓘ
linked to:
Google
|
| platform |
Android
ⓘ
iOS ⓘ web ⓘ |
| supports |
car navigation
ⓘ
motorcycle navigation ⓘ ride-sharing coordination ⓘ |
| targetUserGroup |
commuters
ⓘ
drivers ⓘ |
| uses |
GPS
ⓘ
mobile data connection ⓘ |
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: Waze Description of subject: Waze is a community-driven GPS navigation app that provides real-time traffic updates, route guidance, and incident reports from its users.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.