Maps Platform Time Zone Services
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Maps Platform Time Zone Services is a Google Maps API offering that provides time zone data, including current time offsets and daylight saving information, for specified locations worldwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maps Platform Time Zone Services canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T576908 — 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: Maps Platform Time Zone Services Context triple: [Google Maps, supportsAPI, Maps Platform Time Zone Services]
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A.
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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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.
Mapai
Mapai was a dominant left-wing labor Zionist political party in pre-state and early Israel that played a central role in founding and governing the country.
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D.
Ville
Ville is a common Finnish male given name, especially prevalent in the late 20th century.
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E.
Regions Field
Regions Field is a modern minor league baseball stadium in Birmingham, Alabama, serving as the home of the Birmingham Barons.
- 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: Maps Platform Time Zone Services Target entity description: Maps Platform Time Zone Services is a Google Maps API offering that provides time zone data, including current time offsets and daylight saving information, for specified locations worldwide.
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A.
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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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.
Mapai
Mapai was a dominant left-wing labor Zionist political party in pre-state and early Israel that played a central role in founding and governing the country.
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D.
Ville
Ville is a common Finnish male given name, especially prevalent in the late 20th century.
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E.
Regions Field
Regions Field is a modern minor league baseball stadium in Birmingham, Alabama, serving as the home of the Birmingham Barons.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Google Maps API service
ⓘ
time zone API ⓘ |
| accessMethod |
HTTP request
ⓘ
REST API ⓘ |
| authentication |
API key
ⓘ
Google Cloud credentials ⓘ |
| billingModel | usage-based pricing ⓘ |
| category |
location-based services
ⓘ
mapping and geospatial APIs ⓘ |
| dataType | time zone metadata ⓘ |
| developer | Google ⓘ |
| documentationURL | https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/timezone ⓘ |
| inputType |
geographic coordinates
ⓘ
location identifiers ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Google Maps Geocoding API
ⓘ
linked to:
Geocoding API
Google Maps JavaScript API ⓘ
linked to:
Google Maps
Google Maps Places API ⓘ
linked to:
Places API
|
| outputType |
DST offset
ⓘ
raw UTC offset ⓘ time zone ID ⓘ |
| partOf |
Google Maps Platform
ⓘ
linked to:
Maps Platform Mobile SDKs
|
| provider | Google Cloud ⓘ |
| provides |
current time offset information
ⓘ
daylight saving time information ⓘ time zone data ⓘ |
| requires |
Google Cloud project
ⓘ
Maps Platform Time Zone API enablement ⓘ |
| returns |
information about whether DST is in effect
ⓘ
local time offset from UTC ⓘ |
| scope | worldwide locations ⓘ |
| supports | global coverage ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
daylight saving time transitions
ⓘ
historical and future offset changes ⓘ |
| supportsFormat | JSON responses ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
enterprises using Google Maps Platform
ⓘ
software developers ⓘ |
| useCase |
calendar and booking systems
ⓘ
displaying local time for a location ⓘ scheduling across time zones ⓘ travel and logistics applications ⓘ |
| usedBy |
backend services
ⓘ
mobile applications ⓘ web applications ⓘ |
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: Maps Platform Time Zone Services Description of subject: Maps Platform Time Zone Services is a Google Maps API offering that provides time zone data, including current time offsets and daylight saving information, for specified locations worldwide.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.