ASCII
E23922
ASCII is a widely used character encoding standard that represents text in computers and other devices using 7-bit numerical codes for letters, digits, punctuation, and control characters.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ASCII canonical | 10 |
| American Standard Code for Information Interchange | 4 |
| 7-bit ASCII | 1 |
| ISO 646 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T188990 — 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.
Target entity: ASCII Context triple: [Basic Latin, encodingBasisFor, ASCII]
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A.
Unicode
Unicode is a universal character encoding standard that assigns unique code points to virtually all written scripts, symbols, and emojis used in modern computing.
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B.
ANSI
ANSI is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development and coordination of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, and systems in the United States.
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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.
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.
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E.
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet is the writing system originally used for Latin that has become the most widely adopted script in the world, forming the basis of many modern languages including English, Spanish, and French.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: ASCII Target entity description: ASCII is a widely used character encoding standard that represents text in computers and other devices using 7-bit numerical codes for letters, digits, punctuation, and control characters.
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A.
Unicode
Unicode is a universal character encoding standard that assigns unique code points to virtually all written scripts, symbols, and emojis used in modern computing.
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B.
ANSI
ANSI is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development and coordination of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, and systems in the United States.
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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.
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.
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E.
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet is the writing system originally used for Latin that has become the most widely adopted script in the world, forming the basis of many modern languages including English, Spanish, and French.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character encoding standard
ⓘ
character set ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf |
ASCII
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
|
| basedOn | teleprinter codes ⓘ |
| category | 7-bit character encoding ⓘ |
| characterEncodingType | single-byte encoding ⓘ |
| codePointRange | 0–127 ⓘ |
| definesCodePoints | 128 ⓘ |
| DELCodePoint | 127 ⓘ |
| designedFor |
computers
ⓘ
telecommunications equipment ⓘ |
| doesNotSupport |
accented Latin letters
ⓘ
non-Latin scripts ⓘ |
| firstPublishedYear | 1963 ⓘ |
| fullName |
ASCII
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
|
| hasControlCharacter | DEL ⓘ |
| hasControlCharacterRange | 0–31 ⓘ |
| includes |
BEL control character
ⓘ
ESC control character ⓘ NUL control character ⓘ basic punctuation characters ⓘ carriage return control character ⓘ control characters ⓘ digits 0–9 ⓘ lowercase Latin letters a–z ⓘ newline control character ⓘ printable characters ⓘ space character ⓘ tab control character ⓘ uppercase Latin letters A–Z ⓘ |
| influenced |
ISO 646
ⓘ
UTF-8 ⓘ Unicode ⓘ extended ASCII encodings ⓘ |
| isSubsetOf |
UTF-8
ⓘ
Unicode ⓘ |
| mostSignificantBit | 0 ⓘ |
| printableCharacterRange | 32–126 ⓘ |
| revisedYear |
1967
ⓘ
1968 ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
ANSI
ⓘ
ASA ⓘ |
| standardNumber |
ANSI
ⓘ
surface form:
ANSI X3.4
|
| supportsLanguage | English ⓘ |
| usedFor |
data interchange
ⓘ
text representation in communication equipment ⓘ text representation in computers ⓘ |
| usesBitWidth | 7-bit ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: ASCII Description of subject: ASCII is a widely used character encoding standard that represents text in computers and other devices using 7-bit numerical codes for letters, digits, punctuation, and control characters.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.