LA
E177758
LA is the official two-letter U.S. Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Louisiana.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| LA canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1539803 — 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: LA Context triple: [Louisiana, twoLetterPostalCode, LA]
-
A.
LA
LA is the postcode area covering Lancaster and surrounding parts of north-west England, including parts of Cumbria and Lancashire.
-
B.
LA
LA is the IATA airline designator used by LATAM Airlines Group, a major South American airline conglomerate.
-
C.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles is a major U.S. metropolis known for its entertainment industry, cultural diversity, and sprawling urban landscape.
-
D.
CA
CA is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code that uniquely identifies Canada in international standards and systems.
-
E.
CAL
CAL is the ICAO airline designator used to identify China Airlines in international aviation operations.
- 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: LA Target entity description: LA is the official two-letter U.S. Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Louisiana.
-
A.
LA
LA is the IATA airline designator used by LATAM Airlines Group, a major South American airline conglomerate.
-
B.
LA
LA is the postcode area covering Lancaster and surrounding parts of north-west England, including parts of Cumbria and Lancashire.
-
C.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles is a major U.S. metropolis known for its entertainment industry, cultural diversity, and sprawling urban landscape.
-
D.
CA
CA is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code that uniquely identifies Canada in international standards and systems.
-
E.
CAL
CAL is the ICAO airline designator used to identify China Airlines in international aviation operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Postal Service state abbreviation
ⓘ
postal abbreviation ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Louisiana
ⓘ
surface form:
state of Louisiana
|
| category | US state and territory postal abbreviations ⓘ |
| codeType | two-letter code ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| distinctFrom |
Laos ISO country code "LA"
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ article "la" in Romance languages ⓘ |
| hasLength | 2 characters ⓘ |
| introducedBy | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| isUppercase | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| regionCodeFor | Louisiana ⓘ |
| represents | Louisiana ⓘ |
| shortFor | Louisiana ⓘ |
| standardizedIn | USPS state abbreviation system ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| usedIn |
databases
ⓘ
geocoding systems ⓘ mail addressing ⓘ postal sorting ⓘ shipping forms ⓘ |
| usedSince | 20th century ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: LA Description of subject: LA is the official two-letter U.S. Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Louisiana.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.