sot
E125172
sot is the ISO 639-3 language code for Sesotho, a Southern Bantu language spoken primarily in Lesotho and South Africa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| sot canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1082383 — 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: sot Context triple: [Sesotho, hasISO639-3Code, sot]
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A.
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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B.
SO
SO is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Southern Company, a major U.S. electric and gas utility holding company based in the Southeast.
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C.
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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D.
SOB
SOB is the abbreviation for the Special Operations Bureau, a specialized law enforcement or military unit responsible for handling high-risk and complex operations.
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E.
SoR
SoR is the commonly used abbreviation for the Society of Rheology, a professional organization dedicated to the study of the flow and deformation of matter.
- 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: sot Target entity description: sot is the ISO 639-3 language code for Sesotho, a Southern Bantu language spoken primarily in Lesotho and South Africa.
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A.
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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B.
SO
SO is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Southern Company, a major U.S. electric and gas utility holding company based in the Southeast.
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C.
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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D.
SOB
SOB is the abbreviation for the Special Operations Bureau, a specialized law enforcement or military unit responsible for handling high-risk and complex operations.
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E.
SoR
SoR is the commonly used abbreviation for the Society of Rheology, a professional organization dedicated to the study of the flow and deformation of matter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | ISO 639-3 language code ⓘ |
| alsoSpokenIn |
Botswana
ⓘ
Eswatini ⓘ Namibia ⓘ |
| associatedLanguageName |
Sesotho
ⓘ
Sotho ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Sotho
|
| codeType | three-letter code ⓘ |
| governingBody | ISO 639-3 Registration Authority ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticType | living language ⓘ |
| ISO639-1Equivalent | st ⓘ |
| ISO639-2Equivalent | sot ⓘ |
| ISO639-3CodeFor |
Sesotho
ⓘ
Sotho ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Sotho
|
| languageFamily |
Bantu languages
ⓘ
Southern Bantu languages ⓘ |
| macrolanguageStatus | not a macrolanguage ⓘ |
| partOfStandard |
ISO 639
ⓘ
surface form:
ISO 639-3
|
| primaryRegion |
Lesotho
ⓘ
South Africa ⓘ |
| regionClassification | Southern Africa ⓘ |
| registrationAuthority | SIL International ⓘ |
| relatedStandardCode | st ⓘ |
| represents | Sesotho ⓘ |
| scope | Individual language ⓘ |
| standardizedFor | language identification ⓘ |
| usedIn |
bibliographic records
ⓘ
digital language tagging ⓘ linguistic databases ⓘ software localization ⓘ |
| 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: sot Description of subject: sot is the ISO 639-3 language code for Sesotho, a Southern Bantu language spoken primarily in Lesotho and South Africa.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.