ISO 639
E18761
ISO 639 is an international standard that defines codes for the representation of names of languages.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISO 639-3 | 16 |
| ISO 639 canonical | 14 |
| ISO 639-2 | 8 |
| ISO 639-1 | 4 |
| ISO 639-3 standard | 4 |
| IETF language tags | 1 |
| ISO 639 language code set | 1 |
| ISO 639-1 Language Codes (as represented by LC) | 1 |
| ISO 639-2 standard | 1 |
| ISO 639-2: chi | 1 |
| ISO 639-4 | 1 |
| ISO 639-5 | 1 |
| ISO 639-6 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156054 — 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 639 Context triple: [International Organization for Standardization, issuesStandard, ISO 639]
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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
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Unicode
Unicode is a universal character encoding standard that assigns unique code points to virtually all written scripts, symbols, and emojis used in modern computing.
- 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 639 Target entity description: ISO 639 is an international standard that defines codes for the representation of names of languages.
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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
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Unicode
Unicode is a universal character encoding standard that assigns unique code points to virtually all written scripts, symbols, and emojis used in modern computing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international standard
ⓘ
language code standard ⓘ part of ISO 639 ⓘ part of ISO 639 ⓘ part of ISO 639 ⓘ part of ISO 639 ⓘ part of ISO 639 ⓘ part of ISO 639 ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
ancient languages
ⓘ
constructed languages ⓘ extinct languages ⓘ historical languages ⓘ language families ⓘ natural languages ⓘ |
| defines |
codes for the representation of names of languages
ⓘ
four-letter codes for language variants and dialects ⓘ general principles and implementation guidelines for language codes ⓘ three-letter codes for all known languages ⓘ three-letter codes for language families and groups ⓘ three-letter language codes ⓘ two-letter language codes ⓘ |
| field |
computational linguistics
ⓘ
information technology ⓘ language identification ⓘ |
| hasPart |
ISO 639
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
ISO 639-1
ISO 639 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
ISO 639-2
ISO 639 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
ISO 639-3
ISO 639 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
ISO 639-4
ISO 639 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
ISO 639-5
ISO 639 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
ISO 639-6
|
| maintainedBy | International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| publisher |
International Organization for Standardization
ⓘ
surface form:
ISO
|
| purpose |
facilitate exchange of language information
ⓘ
standardized identification of languages ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
BCP 47
ⓘ
ISO 639 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
IETF language tags
|
| scope |
individual languages
ⓘ
languages and collections of languages ⓘ major languages of the world ⓘ |
| shortName | ISO 639 self-link ⓘ |
| standardNumberingScheme | 639 ⓘ |
| usedIn |
digital libraries
ⓘ
library cataloging ⓘ metadata standards ⓘ software localization ⓘ terminology databases ⓘ web technologies ⓘ |
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 639 Description of subject: ISO 639 is an international standard that defines codes for the representation of names of languages.
Referenced by (54)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ISO 639-2
this entity surface form:
ISO 639-2
subject surface form:
Saho language
this entity surface form:
ISO 639-2