ISO 3166
E13548
ISO 3166 is an international standard published by the International Organization for Standardization that defines globally recognized codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and their principal subdivisions.
All labels observed (23)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T119201 — 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: ISO 3166 Context triple: [PT, isPartOfStandard, ISO 3166]
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A.
ISO 3166-1
ISO 3166-1 is an international standard published by ISO that defines globally recognized country codes in alpha-2, alpha-3, and numeric formats.
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B.
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
The ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency is the international body responsible for developing and updating the ISO 3166 standard that defines country codes and their subdivisions.
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C.
ISO 3166-1 numeric
ISO 3166-1 numeric is the part of the ISO 3166 standard that assigns three-digit numeric country codes used internationally for data processing and classification.
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D.
Country Code Names Supporting Organization
The Country Code Names Supporting Organization is a policy-development body within ICANN that represents and coordinates the interests of country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) managers worldwide.
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E.
ISO 4217
ISO 4217 is the international standard that defines three-letter codes and related data for the representation of currencies and funds worldwide.
- 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: ISO 3166 Target entity description: ISO 3166 is an international standard published by the International Organization for Standardization that defines globally recognized codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and their principal subdivisions.
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A.
ISO 3166-1
ISO 3166-1 is an international standard published by ISO that defines globally recognized country codes in alpha-2, alpha-3, and numeric formats.
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B.
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
The ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency is the international body responsible for developing and updating the ISO 3166 standard that defines country codes and their subdivisions.
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C.
ISO 3166-1 numeric
ISO 3166-1 numeric is the part of the ISO 3166 standard that assigns three-digit numeric country codes used internationally for data processing and classification.
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D.
Country Code Names Supporting Organization
The Country Code Names Supporting Organization is a policy-development body within ICANN that represents and coordinates the interests of country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) managers worldwide.
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E.
ISO 4217
ISO 4217 is the international standard that defines three-letter codes and related data for the representation of currencies and funds worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
country code standard
ⓘ
international standard ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ISO 3166 self-link ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
dependent territories
ⓘ
principal administrative subdivisions ⓘ sovereign states ⓘ |
| category |
coding system
ⓘ
geographic standard ⓘ |
| defines |
codes for country names
ⓘ
codes for dependent territories ⓘ codes for principal subdivisions of countries ⓘ |
| ensures | unambiguous identification of countries and territories ⓘ |
| governedBy | ISO technical committees ⓘ |
| hasPart |
ISO 3166-1
ⓘ
ISO 3166-1 ⓘ
surface form:
ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-3 ⓘ |
| hasUpdateMechanism |
newsletter updates
ⓘ
periodic revisions ⓘ |
| includesCodeTypes |
alpha-2 country codes
ⓘ
alpha-3 country codes ⓘ numeric country codes ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | ISO standards ⓘ |
| publisher | International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| purpose | facilitate consistent representation of country and territory names ⓘ |
| region | worldwide ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
country name abbreviations
ⓘ
geopolitical entities ⓘ |
| scope |
globally recognized country codes
ⓘ
subdivision codes ⓘ territory codes ⓘ |
| standardFamily |
ISO 3166
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
ISO 3166 series
|
| standardizes |
country codes
ⓘ
subdivision codes ⓘ territory codes ⓘ |
| status | active ⓘ |
| usedBy |
businesses
ⓘ
governments ⓘ information systems ⓘ international organizations ⓘ |
| usedFor |
data exchange
ⓘ
international trade ⓘ internet and IT systems ⓘ statistics ⓘ transport and logistics ⓘ |
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: ISO 3166 Description of subject: ISO 3166 is an international standard published by the International Organization for Standardization that defines globally recognized codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and their principal subdivisions.
Referenced by (470)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ISO 3166-2
this entity surface form:
ISO 3166-2
this entity surface form:
ISO 3166-2
this entity surface form:
ISO 3166-2
this entity surface form:
ISO country subdivision coding system