ofs
E124852
ofs is the ISO 639-3 language code for Old Frisian, a historical West Germanic language once spoken in parts of the coastal Netherlands and Germany.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ofs canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1078899 — 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: ofs Context triple: [Old Frisian, ISO639-3, ofs]
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A.
ulos
Ulos is a handwoven ceremonial textile central to Batak culture in North Sumatra, Indonesia, symbolizing blessings, social status, and kinship ties.
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B.
oci
oci is the ISO 639-2 code for Occitan, a Romance language spoken primarily in southern France and parts of Italy and Spain.
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C.
OC
OC is the post-nominal designation for Officer of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honors recognizing outstanding achievement and service.
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D.
SO
SO is an abbreviation for the Southern Oscillation, a large-scale atmospheric pressure pattern in the tropical Pacific that underlies the El Niño–La Niña climate cycle.
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E.
SO
SO is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Somalia for international identification and data standards.
- 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: ofs Target entity description: ofs is the ISO 639-3 language code for Old Frisian, a historical West Germanic language once spoken in parts of the coastal Netherlands and Germany.
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A.
ulos
Ulos is a handwoven ceremonial textile central to Batak culture in North Sumatra, Indonesia, symbolizing blessings, social status, and kinship ties.
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B.
oci
oci is the ISO 639-2 code for Occitan, a Romance language spoken primarily in southern France and parts of Italy and Spain.
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C.
OC
OC is the post-nominal designation for Officer of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honors recognizing outstanding achievement and service.
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D.
SO
SO is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Somalia for international identification and data standards.
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E.
SO
SO is an abbreviation for the Southern Oscillation, a large-scale atmospheric pressure pattern in the tropical Pacific that underlies the El Niño–La Niña climate cycle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ISO 639-3 language code
ⓘ
West Germanic language ⓘ historical language ⓘ |
| ancestorOf |
North Frisian
GENERATED
ⓘ
Saterland Frisian GENERATED ⓘ West Frisian GENERATED ⓘ |
| basicWordOrder |
SOV
GENERATED
ⓘ
SVO GENERATED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Old English
GENERATED
ⓘ
Old Saxon GENERATED ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
North Sea Germanic
GENERATED
ⓘ
Proto-Germanic GENERATED ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
glosses
GENERATED
ⓘ
legal texts GENERATED ⓘ religious texts GENERATED ⓘ |
| extinctionCentury | 16th century GENERATED ⓘ |
| grammaticalGenders |
feminine
ⓘ
masculine ⓘ neuter ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Aldfrysk
GENERATED
ⓘ
Altfriesisch GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasCaseSystem | yes GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalGender | yes GENERATED ⓘ |
| influenced | Modern Frisian languages GENERATED ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | ofs GENERATED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | West Germanic GENERATED ⓘ |
| languageStatus | extinct GENERATED ⓘ |
| numberOfCasesApprox | 4 ⓘ |
| partOf | Frisian languages GENERATED ⓘ |
| primarySourcesRegion | Frisian coastal areas ⓘ |
| region |
coastal Germany
GENERATED
ⓘ
coastal Netherlands GENERATED ⓘ |
| represents | Old Frisian GENERATED ⓘ |
| sharesFeaturesWith | Anglo-Frisian languages GENERATED ⓘ |
| spokenAlong | North Sea coast GENERATED ⓘ |
| spokenInHistorical |
Frisia
GENERATED
ⓘ
Germany GENERATED ⓘ Netherlands GENERATED ⓘ |
| standardizedOrthography | no GENERATED ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Germanic language
GENERATED
ⓘ
Indo-European language GENERATED ⓘ |
| successorLanguage | Middle Frisian ⓘ |
| timePeriod | circa 8th century to 16th century GENERATED ⓘ |
| typology | fusional language GENERATED ⓘ |
| usesDefiniteArticle | yes GENERATED ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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: ofs Description of subject: ofs is the ISO 639-3 language code for Old Frisian, a historical West Germanic language once spoken in parts of the coastal Netherlands and Germany.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.