ISO/IEC 8859-15
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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.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISO/IEC 8859-15 canonical | 3 |
| ISO Latin-9 | 1 |
| Latin 9 | 1 |
| Latin-9 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1380988 — 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 8859-15 Context triple: [ISO/IEC 8859-1, relatedStandard, ISO/IEC 8859-15]
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A.
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.
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B.
ISO/IEC 8859
ISO/IEC 8859 is a family of 8-bit character encoding standards that define various single-byte coded character sets for different languages and scripts, widely used before the adoption of Unicode.
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C.
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin-1 Supplement is a Unicode block that extends the basic Latin script with additional characters, including accented letters and symbols used in many Western European languages.
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D.
Windows-1252
Windows-1252 is a character encoding used primarily on Microsoft Windows systems that extends ISO 8859-1 with additional printable characters, including typographic punctuation and symbols.
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E.
Latin Extended-B
Latin Extended-B is a Unicode block that adds additional Latin characters used for various historical, phonetic, and minority language orthographies beyond the basic Latin set.
- 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 8859-15 Target entity description: 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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A.
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.
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B.
ISO/IEC 8859
ISO/IEC 8859 is a family of 8-bit character encoding standards that define various single-byte coded character sets for different languages and scripts, widely used before the adoption of Unicode.
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C.
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin-1 Supplement is a Unicode block that extends the basic Latin script with additional characters, including accented letters and symbols used in many Western European languages.
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D.
Windows-1252
Windows-1252 is a character encoding used primarily on Microsoft Windows systems that extends ISO 8859-1 with additional printable characters, including typographic punctuation and symbols.
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E.
Latin Extended-B
Latin Extended-B is a Unicode block that adds additional Latin characters used for various historical, phonetic, and minority language orthographies beyond the basic Latin set.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
8-bit single-byte character set
ⓘ
ISO/IEC standard ⓘ character encoding ⓘ |
| addsCharacter |
euro sign
ⓘ
Œ ⓘ œ ⓘ Š ⓘ š ⓘ Ÿ ⓘ Ž ⓘ ž ⓘ € ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
ISO/IEC 8859-15
ⓘ
surface form:
ISO Latin-9
ISO/IEC 8859-15 ⓘ
surface form:
Latin 9
ISO/IEC 8859-15 ⓘ
surface form:
Latin-9
|
| basedOn | ISO/IEC 8859-1 ⓘ |
| bitWidth | 8 ⓘ |
| codePageSize | 256 code points ⓘ |
| compatibleWith | ASCII for code points 0–127 ⓘ |
| designGoal |
improve linguistic coverage over ISO/IEC 8859-1
ⓘ
include euro sign ⓘ support Western European languages ⓘ |
| encodingType | single-byte encoding ⓘ |
| includesCurrencySymbol | euro sign ⓘ |
| includesLanguage |
Danish
ⓘ
Dutch ⓘ Finnish ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Icelandic ⓘ Irish ⓘ Italian ⓘ Norwegian language ⓘ
surface form:
Norwegian
Portuguese ⓘ Spanish ⓘ Swedish language ⓘ
surface form:
Swedish
other Western European languages ⓘ |
| intendedUse | information interchange ⓘ |
| organizationStandardizedBy |
International Electrotechnical Commission
ⓘ
surface form:
IEC
International Organization for Standardization ⓘ
surface form:
ISO
|
| partOf |
ISO/IEC 8859
ⓘ
surface form:
ISO/IEC 8859 series
|
| regionCoverage | Western Europe ⓘ |
| replaces | ISO/IEC 8859-1 ⓘ |
| replacesCharacterFromISO8859-1 | generic currency sign ⓘ |
| scriptCoverage | Latin script ⓘ |
| standardNumber | ISO/IEC 8859-15 self-link ⓘ |
| supersededBy | Unicode in many applications ⓘ |
| usesCodePointsRange | 0–255 ⓘ |
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/IEC 8859-15 Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Latin-9
this entity surface form:
Latin 9
this entity surface form:
ISO Latin-9