Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)

J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN).

Type

Dataset

Intellectual base

Primary research

Link

https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/

Cited from

computer_science

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Index
  • In geography it is gazetteers mapping place names to coordinates, and postal codes as composite classify-plus-locate indexes.

    This sourceA structured gazetteer mapping place names (and historical/vernacular variants) to coordinates and place types — an auxiliary key-to-location pointer table over place-name keys, the geography instance.

Verification

Does it exist? Not checked yet. This entry carries no identifier to resolve. It was extracted from the citation as written in the article, normalized, and deduplicated against the rest of the registry.

Does it back the claim? Not recorded. The single citation of this work carries no recorded support check.

Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.

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