Directions API
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Directions API is a Google Maps web service that provides route planning, turn-by-turn directions, and travel time estimates between locations for various modes of transportation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Directions API canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T576884 — 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: Directions API Context triple: [Google Maps, supportsAPI, Directions API]
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A.
Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts were a series of 17th-century English laws that regulated colonial trade to strengthen national shipping and ensure that commerce with the colonies benefited England.
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B.
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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C.
Waze
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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D.
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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E.
Bing Maps
Bing Maps is Microsoft's web-based mapping and navigation service offering road maps, aerial imagery, directions, and location-based search.
- 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: Directions API Target entity description: Directions API is a Google Maps web service that provides route planning, turn-by-turn directions, and travel time estimates between locations for various modes of transportation.
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A.
Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts were a series of 17th-century English laws that regulated colonial trade to strengthen national shipping and ensure that commerce with the colonies benefited England.
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B.
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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C.
Waze
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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D.
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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E.
Bing Maps
Bing Maps is Microsoft's web-based mapping and navigation service offering road maps, aerial imagery, directions, and location-based search.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Google Maps Platform API
ⓘ
web service ⓘ |
| authenticationMethod | API key in request ⓘ |
| billingModel | pay-as-you-go ⓘ |
| developer | Google ⓘ |
| documentationURL | https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/directions ⓘ |
| endpointBaseURL | https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions ⓘ |
| inputFormat | HTTP URL request ⓘ |
| outputFormat |
JSON
ⓘ
XML ⓘ |
| partOf |
Google Maps Platform
ⓘ
linked to:
Google Maps
|
| provides |
route planning
ⓘ
travel time estimates ⓘ turn-by-turn directions ⓘ |
| requires | API key ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
alternative routes
ⓘ
arrival time specification ⓘ departure time specification ⓘ detailed step-by-step instructions ⓘ distance and duration per step ⓘ encoded polyline output ⓘ fare information for transit (where available) ⓘ ferry avoidance ⓘ ferry-only routes (where applicable) ⓘ highway avoidance ⓘ language localization ⓘ maneuver-level guidance ⓘ multiple waypoints ⓘ optimized waypoint ordering ⓘ region biasing ⓘ toll avoidance ⓘ traffic model selection ⓘ traffic-aware travel times ⓘ transit routing preferences ⓘ |
| supportsParameter |
alternatives
ⓘ
arrival_time ⓘ avoid ⓘ departure_time ⓘ destination ⓘ language ⓘ mode ⓘ origin ⓘ region ⓘ traffic_model ⓘ units ⓘ waypoints ⓘ |
| supportsTransportMode |
bicycling
ⓘ
driving ⓘ transit ⓘ two-wheeler (in some regions) ⓘ walking ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fleet management
ⓘ
logistics and delivery optimization ⓘ navigation applications ⓘ ridesharing applications ⓘ travel and trip planning ⓘ |
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: Directions API Description of subject: Directions API is a Google Maps web service that provides route planning, turn-by-turn directions, and travel time estimates between locations for various modes of transportation.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.