International Standard Industrial Classification
E465447
The International Standard Industrial Classification is a globally used United Nations framework that systematically categorizes economic activities to enable consistent collection, analysis, and comparison of industrial statistics across countries.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities | 2 |
| International Standard Industrial Classification canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4736251 — 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: International Standard Industrial Classification Context triple: [United Nations Statistical Commission, notableWork, International Standard Industrial Classification]
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A.
United Nations Central Product Classification for services
The United Nations Central Product Classification for services is an international standard taxonomy that organizes and codes service activities to facilitate consistent statistical reporting, trade negotiations, and policy analysis across countries and sectors.
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B.
NAICS codes
NAICS codes are a standardized classification system used in North America to categorize businesses and industries for statistical, regulatory, and procurement purposes.
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C.
International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System
The International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System is a World Customs Organization treaty that establishes the globally standardized classification system used for international trade in goods.
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D.
Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System
The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System is an internationally standardized system of names and numbers used to classify traded products for customs and trade statistics worldwide.
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E.
European System of Accounts
The European System of Accounts is the EU’s standardized framework for compiling and presenting national and regional economic statistics, harmonized with the international System of National Accounts.
- 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: International Standard Industrial Classification Target entity description: The International Standard Industrial Classification is a globally used United Nations framework that systematically categorizes economic activities to enable consistent collection, analysis, and comparison of industrial statistics across countries.
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A.
United Nations Central Product Classification for services
The United Nations Central Product Classification for services is an international standard taxonomy that organizes and codes service activities to facilitate consistent statistical reporting, trade negotiations, and policy analysis across countries and sectors.
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B.
NAICS codes
NAICS codes are a standardized classification system used in North America to categorize businesses and industries for statistical, regulatory, and procurement purposes.
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C.
International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System
The International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System is a World Customs Organization treaty that establishes the globally standardized classification system used for international trade in goods.
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D.
Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System
The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System is an internationally standardized system of names and numbers used to classify traded products for customs and trade statistics worldwide.
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E.
European System of Accounts
The European System of Accounts is the EU’s standardized framework for compiling and presenting national and regional economic statistics, harmonized with the international System of National Accounts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United Nations standard
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industrial classification system ⓘ statistical classification ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ISIC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliesTo | economic activities ⓘ |
| approvedBy | United Nations Statistical Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classificationLevel | hierarchical ⓘ |
| developedBy | United Nations Statistical Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| field |
economic statistics
ⓘ
industrial statistics ⓘ |
| firstAdoptedBy | United Nations Statistical Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedBy | United Nations Statistical Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCorrespondenceWith |
North American Industry Classification System
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
ISIC Rev.1
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ISIC Rev.2 NERFINISHED ⓘ ISIC Rev.3 NERFINISHED ⓘ ISIC Rev.3.1 NERFINISHED ⓘ ISIC Rev.4 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| issuedBy | United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| latestVersion | ISIC Rev.4 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
United Nations
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Nations Statistics Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| organizedBy |
classes
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divisions ⓘ groups ⓘ sections ⓘ |
| publisher | United Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
to classify economic activities in a consistent and comparable way
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to enable international comparison of economic statistics ⓘ to support analysis of economic activity ⓘ to support collection of industrial statistics ⓘ |
| region | worldwide ⓘ |
| scope | all economic activities ⓘ |
| shortName | International Standard Industrial Classification NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| standardType | statistical standard ⓘ |
| targetUser |
economists
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statisticians ⓘ |
| usedBy |
international organizations
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national statistical offices ⓘ policy makers ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| usedIn |
business registers
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economic censuses ⓘ economic surveys ⓘ industrial statistics ⓘ national accounts ⓘ |
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: International Standard Industrial Classification Description of subject: The International Standard Industrial Classification is a globally used United Nations framework that systematically categorizes economic activities to enable consistent collection, analysis, and comparison of industrial statistics across countries.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
United Nations Statistical Commission
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notableWork
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International Standard Industrial Classification
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United Nations Central Product Classification for services
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relatedTo
→
International Standard Industrial Classification
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this entity surface form:
International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities
United Nations Statistics Division
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notableWork
→
International Standard Industrial Classification
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this entity surface form:
International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities