WS
E147423
WS is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Samoa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WS canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1295350 — 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: WS Context triple: [Samoa, ISO3166-1Alpha2, WS]
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A.
WN
WN is the IATA airline designator used to identify Southwest Airlines in flight schedules, ticketing, and aviation operations.
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B.
WR
WR is the abbreviation for the German Council of Science and Humanities, a key advisory body that counsels the German federal and state governments on science, research, and higher education policy.
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C.
W
The W is a local New York City Subway service that runs on the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan and Queens, typically operating on weekdays.
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D.
W
W is one of the iconic white capital letters that make up the famous Hollywood Sign overlooking Los Angeles.
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E.
WAS
WAS is the standard three-letter abbreviation used for the Washington Commanders NFL franchise.
- 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: WS Target entity description: WS is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Samoa.
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A.
WN
WN is the IATA airline designator used to identify Southwest Airlines in flight schedules, ticketing, and aviation operations.
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B.
WR
WR is the abbreviation for the German Council of Science and Humanities, a key advisory body that counsels the German federal and state governments on science, research, and higher education policy.
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C.
W
The W is a local New York City Subway service that runs on the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan and Queens, typically operating on weekdays.
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D.
W
W is one of the iconic white capital letters that make up the famous Hollywood Sign overlooking Los Angeles.
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E.
WAS
WAS is the standard three-letter abbreviation used for the Washington Commanders NFL franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code ⓘ |
| assignedBy |
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
ⓘ
International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| associatedCapital | Apia ⓘ |
| associatedCurrency | Samoan tālā ⓘ |
| associatedCurrencyCode | WST ⓘ |
| associatedOfficialLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Samoan ⓘ |
| category | ISO 3166-1 code for a sovereign state ⓘ |
| codeType | alpha-2 ⓘ |
| countryName | Samoa ⓘ |
| hasAlpha3Code | WSM ⓘ |
| hasNumericCode | 882 ⓘ |
| hasTwoLetterCode | WS ⓘ |
| internetTLD | .ws ⓘ |
| isCurrentCode | true ⓘ |
| isDefinedInStandard | ISO 3166-1 ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
ISO 3166
ⓘ
surface form:
ISO 3166 standard
|
| region | Oceania ⓘ |
| represents | Samoa ⓘ |
| representsSovereignState |
Samoa
ⓘ
surface form:
Independent State of Samoa
|
| subregion | Polynesia ⓘ |
| usedAs | country code top-level domain label ⓘ |
| usedIn |
country identification systems
ⓘ
global addressing and coding systems ⓘ international data exchange ⓘ |
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: WS Description of subject: WS is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Samoa.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.