MIME
E192660
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is an internet standard that extends the format of email to support text in character sets beyond ASCII, as well as attachments like images, audio, video, and application files.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MIME canonical | 12 |
| MIME-Version | 2 |
| 8BITMIME | 1 |
| Content-Type | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1711922 — 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: MIME Context triple: [S/MIME, basedOn, MIME]
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A.
MIME Sniffing Standard
The MIME Sniffing Standard is a web specification that defines how browsers should determine the media type of resources to improve interoperability and security on the web.
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B.
S/MIME
S/MIME is a widely used standard for secure email that provides encryption and digital signatures using public key cryptography.
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C.
RFC 822
RFC 822 is an early Internet standard that defines the format of text-based email messages, including headers and addressing conventions.
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D.
Media Mail
Media Mail is a discounted U.S. Postal Service shipping option specifically for sending educational materials and media such as books, sound recordings, and DVDs.
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E.
METS
METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) is an XML-based standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata for complex digital library objects.
- 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: MIME Target entity description: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is an internet standard that extends the format of email to support text in character sets beyond ASCII, as well as attachments like images, audio, video, and application files.
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A.
MIME Sniffing Standard
The MIME Sniffing Standard is a web specification that defines how browsers should determine the media type of resources to improve interoperability and security on the web.
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B.
S/MIME
S/MIME is a widely used standard for secure email that provides encryption and digital signatures using public key cryptography.
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C.
RFC 822
RFC 822 is an early Internet standard that defines the format of text-based email messages, including headers and addressing conventions.
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D.
Media Mail
Media Mail is a discounted U.S. Postal Service shipping option specifically for sending educational materials and media such as books, sound recordings, and DVDs.
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E.
METS
METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) is an XML-based standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata for complex digital library objects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Internet standard
ⓘ
email standard ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MIME self-link ⓘ |
| defines |
content transfer encodings
ⓘ
content types ⓘ media types ⓘ message headers ⓘ |
| encodingExample |
7bit
ⓘ
8bit ⓘ base64 ⓘ binary ⓘ quoted-printable ⓘ |
| extends |
Internet email format
ⓘ
RFC 822 ⓘ |
| fullName | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions ⓘ |
| goal |
support international character sets in email
ⓘ
support multimedia content in email ⓘ |
| influenced |
HTTP Content-Type header
ⓘ
web media type handling ⓘ |
| introduced | media type system ⓘ |
| mediaTypeExample |
application/pdf
ⓘ
audio/mpeg ⓘ image/jpeg ⓘ image/png ⓘ multipart/alternative ⓘ multipart/form-data ⓘ multipart/mixed ⓘ multipart/related ⓘ text/html ⓘ text/plain ⓘ video/mp4 ⓘ |
| revises | original MIME RFCs 1521–1522 ⓘ |
| standardizedIn |
RFC 2045
ⓘ
RFC 2046 ⓘ RFC 2047 ⓘ RFC 2048 ⓘ RFC 2049 ⓘ |
| supports |
application file attachments
ⓘ
audio attachments ⓘ binary attachments ⓘ image attachments ⓘ non-ASCII character sets ⓘ text in various character sets ⓘ video attachments ⓘ |
| usedIn |
HTTP
ⓘ
email ⓘ file upload protocols ⓘ web browsers ⓘ |
| usesHeader |
Content-Description
ⓘ
Content-Disposition ⓘ Content-ID ⓘ Content-Transfer-Encoding ⓘ Content-Type ⓘ MIME self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
MIME-Version
|
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: MIME Description of subject: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is an internet standard that extends the format of email to support text in character sets beyond ASCII, as well as attachments like images, audio, video, and application files.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Content-Type
subject surface form:
Thunderbird
this entity surface form:
MIME-Version
this entity surface form:
MIME-Version