ISO 15924
E174382
ISO 15924 is an international standard that assigns four-letter codes to the world’s writing systems and scripts for use in information processing and interchange.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISO 15924 canonical | 34 |
| ISO 15924 Registration Authority | 3 |
| ISO 15924 Script Codes (as represented by LC) | 1 |
| ISO 15924 script codes | 1 |
| ISO 15924:2004 | 1 |
| ISO standards for language and script coding | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1527463 — 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 15924 Context triple: [Tglg, standardNumber, ISO 15924]
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A.
ISO/IEC 10646
ISO/IEC 10646 is an international standard that defines the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS), a comprehensive repertoire of characters used worldwide and closely aligned with the Unicode Standard.
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B.
ISO 639
ISO 639 is an international standard that defines codes for the representation of names of languages.
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C.
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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D.
ISO 646
ISO 646 is an international standard for 7-bit character encodings that defines a set of basic Latin characters and allows national variants, serving as a foundation for many early computer character sets.
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E.
Unicode Technical Standard #35
Unicode Technical Standard #35 is a Unicode Consortium specification that defines the Locale Data Markup Language (LDML) and related mechanisms for internationalization, including formatting of dates, times, numbers, and other locale-sensitive data.
- 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 15924 Target entity description: ISO 15924 is an international standard that assigns four-letter codes to the world’s writing systems and scripts for use in information processing and interchange.
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A.
ISO/IEC 10646
ISO/IEC 10646 is an international standard that defines the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS), a comprehensive repertoire of characters used worldwide and closely aligned with the Unicode Standard.
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B.
ISO 639
ISO 639 is an international standard that defines codes for the representation of names of languages.
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C.
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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D.
ISO 646
ISO 646 is an international standard for 7-bit character encodings that defines a set of basic Latin characters and allows national variants, serving as a foundation for many early computer character sets.
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E.
Unicode Technical Standard #35
Unicode Technical Standard #35 is a Unicode Consortium specification that defines the Locale Data Markup Language (LDML) and related mechanisms for internationalization, including formatting of dates, times, numbers, and other locale-sensitive data.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ISO standard
ⓘ
international standard ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
constructed scripts
ⓘ
historic scripts ⓘ modern scripts ⓘ symbol scripts ⓘ |
| codeElementFormat |
four-letter Latin alphabet code
ⓘ
three-digit numeric code ⓘ |
| defines |
four-letter codes for writing systems
ⓘ
four-letter script codes ⓘ numeric codes for scripts ⓘ |
| distinguishes |
different writing systems
ⓘ
variants of scripts ⓘ |
| governs | representation of scripts in information systems ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
codes are based on Latin script names
ⓘ
codes are case-sensitive ⓘ each script has a unique code ⓘ |
| hasExampleCode |
Arab
ⓘ
linked to:
Arabic
Cyrl ⓘ Grek ⓘ Hani ⓘ Latn ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
ISO
ⓘ
International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| partOf |
ISO standards for language and script coding
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 15924
|
| purpose |
data interchange
ⓘ
identification of scripts ⓘ information processing ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
IETF BCP 47
ⓘ
Unicode ⓘ language tags ⓘ |
| subject |
scripts
ⓘ
writing systems ⓘ |
| supports |
interoperability of text data
ⓘ
multilingual computing ⓘ |
| usedBy |
archives
ⓘ
libraries ⓘ publishers ⓘ software developers ⓘ standards organizations ⓘ |
| usedIn |
computing
ⓘ
digital typography ⓘ internationalization ⓘ language tagging ⓘ localization ⓘ metadata standards ⓘ |
| usedTogetherWith |
ISO 3166
ⓘ
ISO 639 ⓘ |
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 15924 Description of subject: ISO 15924 is an international standard that assigns four-letter codes to the world’s writing systems and scripts for use in information processing and interchange.
Referenced by (41)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: ISO 15924
linked to: ISO 15924
linked to: ISO 15924
linked to: ISO 15924
linked to: ISO 15924
linked to: ISO 15924