ISO/IEC 8859-7
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ISO/IEC 8859-7 is an 8-bit character encoding standard designed primarily for the modern Greek language and related symbols.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISO/IEC 8859-7 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6442101 — 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/IEC 8859-7 Context triple: [ISO/IEC 8859, hasMember, ISO/IEC 8859-7]
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A.
Cypriot Syllabary block
The Cypriot Syllabary block is a range of Unicode characters representing the ancient syllabic writing system used on Cyprus for writing Greek and other languages.
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B.
Euboean Greek alphabet
The Euboean Greek alphabet is an early regional variant of the Greek writing system whose letter forms and conventions significantly influenced the development of the Italic scripts, including the Etruscan and ultimately the Latin alphabet.
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C.
Mediterranean alphabet
The Mediterranean alphabet is a historical family of writing systems used around the Mediterranean basin that evolved from the Phoenician script and gave rise to several ancient alphabets, including Greek, Etruscan, and Latin.
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D.
ISO/IEC 8859-15
ISO/IEC 8859-15 is an 8-bit single-byte character encoding standard for Western European languages that updates ISO/IEC 8859-1 by including the euro sign and additional characters for improved linguistic coverage.
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E.
ISO/IEC 8859-1
ISO/IEC 8859-1 is an 8-bit single-byte character encoding standard that covers Western European languages and was widely used before the adoption of Unicode.
- 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/IEC 8859-7 Target entity description: ISO/IEC 8859-7 is an 8-bit character encoding standard designed primarily for the modern Greek language and related symbols.
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A.
Cypriot Syllabary block
The Cypriot Syllabary block is a range of Unicode characters representing the ancient syllabic writing system used on Cyprus for writing Greek and other languages.
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B.
Euboean Greek alphabet
The Euboean Greek alphabet is an early regional variant of the Greek writing system whose letter forms and conventions significantly influenced the development of the Italic scripts, including the Etruscan and ultimately the Latin alphabet.
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C.
Mediterranean alphabet
The Mediterranean alphabet is a historical family of writing systems used around the Mediterranean basin that evolved from the Phoenician script and gave rise to several ancient alphabets, including Greek, Etruscan, and Latin.
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D.
ISO/IEC 8859-15
ISO/IEC 8859-15 is an 8-bit single-byte character encoding standard for Western European languages that updates ISO/IEC 8859-1 by including the euro sign and additional characters for improved linguistic coverage.
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E.
ISO/IEC 8859-1
ISO/IEC 8859-1 is an 8-bit single-byte character encoding standard that covers Western European languages and was widely used before the adoption of Unicode.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
8-bit single-byte character encoding
ⓘ
ISO/IEC 8859 series member ⓘ character encoding standard ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
ECMA-118
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ISO 8859-7 NERFINISHED ⓘ Latin/Greek ⓘ |
| basedOn | ECMA-118 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bitWidth | 8-bit ⓘ |
| category | 8-bit extended ASCII ⓘ |
| characterSetSize | 256 code points ⓘ |
| codeUnitSize | 1 byte ⓘ |
| compatibleWith | ASCII for code points 0–127 ⓘ |
| definesControlArea |
C0 controls at 0–31
ⓘ
C1 controls at 128–159 ⓘ |
| doesNotFullySupport | polytonic Greek orthography ⓘ |
| encodingType | single-byte character encoding ⓘ |
| firstEditionYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| hasCodePageRelationship | Windows-1253 (similar but not identical) ⓘ |
| IANACharsetName | ISO-8859-7 ⓘ |
| IANAStatus | preferred MIME name ⓘ |
| includesCharacterCategory |
Greek capital letters
ⓘ
Greek diacritics ⓘ Greek small letters ⓘ currency symbols ⓘ mathematical symbols ⓘ punctuation ⓘ |
| intendedUse | encoding modern Greek text ⓘ |
| lowerHalfRange | 0–127 identical to ASCII ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
ISO/IEC JTC 1
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
International Electrotechnical Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ International Organization for Standardization NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mimetype | ISO-8859-7 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | ISO/IEC 8859 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageCoverage | modern Greek ⓘ |
| regionOfUse |
Cyprus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| revisedEditionYear |
2003
ⓘ
2003-10-15 ⓘ |
| scriptCoverage |
Greek script
ⓘ
Latin script (basic ASCII subset) ⓘ |
| standardizes | mapping between byte values and Greek characters ⓘ |
| standardNumber | ISO/IEC 8859-7 ⓘ |
| status | legacy encoding ⓘ |
| supersededInManyContextsBy | Unicode NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supports | monotonic Greek orthography ⓘ |
| upperHalfRange | 128–255 Greek and additional symbols ⓘ |
| usedFor |
email and network protocols supporting ISO-8859 charsets
ⓘ
legacy Greek-language documents ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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/IEC 8859-7 Description of subject: ISO/IEC 8859-7 is an 8-bit character encoding standard designed primarily for the modern Greek language and related symbols.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.