ISO 3166-3
E22545
ISO 3166-3 is the part of the ISO 3166 standard that defines codes for countries and territories that have been removed from the current ISO 3166-1 list, providing their former country codes and their replacements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISO 3166-3 canonical | 20 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156093 — 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 3166-3 Context triple: [ISO 3166-1, relatedTo, ISO 3166-3]
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A.
ISO 3166
ISO 3166 is an international standard published by the International Organization for Standardization that defines globally recognized codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and their principal subdivisions.
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B.
ISO 3166-1
ISO 3166-1 is an international standard published by ISO that defines globally recognized country codes in alpha-2, alpha-3, and numeric formats.
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C.
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
The ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency is the international body responsible for developing and updating the ISO 3166 standard that defines country codes and their subdivisions.
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D.
ISO 639
ISO 639 is an international standard that defines codes for the representation of names of languages.
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E.
ISO 3166-1 numeric
ISO 3166-1 numeric is the part of the ISO 3166 standard that assigns three-digit numeric country codes used internationally for data processing and classification.
- 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 3166-3 Target entity description: ISO 3166-3 is the part of the ISO 3166 standard that defines codes for countries and territories that have been removed from the current ISO 3166-1 list, providing their former country codes and their replacements.
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A.
ISO 3166
ISO 3166 is an international standard published by the International Organization for Standardization that defines globally recognized codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and their principal subdivisions.
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B.
ISO 3166-1
ISO 3166-1 is an international standard published by ISO that defines globally recognized country codes in alpha-2, alpha-3, and numeric formats.
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C.
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
The ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency is the international body responsible for developing and updating the ISO 3166 standard that defines country codes and their subdivisions.
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D.
ISO 639
ISO 639 is an international standard that defines codes for the representation of names of languages.
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E.
ISO 3166-1 numeric
ISO 3166-1 numeric is the part of the ISO 3166 standard that assigns three-digit numeric country codes used internationally for data processing and classification.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ISO standard
ⓘ
country code standard ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
countries removed from ISO 3166-1
ⓘ
territories removed from ISO 3166-1 ⓘ |
| codeStructure |
first two letters from former alpha-2 code
ⓘ
four-letter alphabetic code ⓘ last two letters indicating change type ⓘ |
| defines |
codes for deleted ISO 3166-1 entries
ⓘ
codes for formerly used country names ⓘ codes for formerly used territories ⓘ codes for obsolete ISO 3166-1 country codes ⓘ four-letter country codes ⓘ |
| field |
data coding
ⓘ
geography ⓘ international standards ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | ISO 3166-3 self-link ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
ⓘ
International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| partOf | ISO 3166 ⓘ |
| provides |
information on replacement country codes
ⓘ
information on successor states ⓘ mapping from former country codes to new codes ⓘ |
| publisher | International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| purpose |
facilitate data migration after country code changes
ⓘ
preserve information about obsolete country codes ⓘ support historical referencing of country codes ⓘ |
| relatesTo |
ISO 3166-1
ⓘ
ISO 3166 ⓘ
surface form:
ISO 3166-2
|
| standardFamily | ISO 3166 ⓘ |
| standardizes |
representation of formerly used country codes
ⓘ
representation of formerly used country names ⓘ |
| status | active standard ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
country code changes
ⓘ
country name changes ⓘ territorial changes ⓘ |
| usedBy |
archival systems
ⓘ
databases ⓘ international organizations ⓘ statistical systems ⓘ |
| usedFor |
historical country data
ⓘ
legacy system compatibility ⓘ tracking geopolitical changes ⓘ |
| usesAsBasis |
former ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes
ⓘ
former ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes ⓘ former ISO 3166-1 numeric codes ⓘ |
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 3166-3 Description of subject: ISO 3166-3 is the part of the ISO 3166 standard that defines codes for countries and territories that have been removed from the current ISO 3166-1 list, providing their former country codes and their replacements.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.