KY
E251520
KY is the official United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Kentucky.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KY canonical | 25 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2264946 — 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: KY Context triple: [Clark County, Kentucky, postalAbbreviation, KY]
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A.
KY
KY is the postcode area covering Kirkcaldy and surrounding parts of eastern Scotland.
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B.
KE
KE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Kenya for international identification and data standards.
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C.
KE
KE is the IATA airline designator for Korean Air, the flag carrier and largest airline of South Korea.
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D.
KA
KA is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for cars registered in the German city of Karlsruhe.
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E.
AK
AK is the Polish abbreviation for the Home Army, the principal resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II.
- 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: KY Target entity description: KY is the official United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Kentucky.
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A.
KY
KY is the postcode area covering Kirkcaldy and surrounding parts of eastern Scotland.
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B.
KE
KE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Kenya for international identification and data standards.
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C.
KE
KE is the IATA airline designator for Korean Air, the flag carrier and largest airline of South Korea.
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D.
KA
KA is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for cars registered in the German city of Karlsruhe.
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E.
AK
AK is the Polish abbreviation for the Home Army, the principal resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Postal Service state abbreviation
ⓘ
postal abbreviation ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Kentucky
ⓘ
U.S. state ⓘ |
| codeStandard |
USPS
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Postal Service
|
| codeType | two-letter state code ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| firstLetter | K ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeNotation | Ky. ⓘ |
| introducedBy | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| isDistinctFrom |
K.Y.
ⓘ
Kentucky (full name) ⓘ |
| isPartOfStandard | USPS two-letter state abbreviations ⓘ |
| isPreferredOver | Ky. ⓘ |
| isUppercase | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| letterCount | 2 ⓘ |
| refersTo | Kentucky ⓘ |
| regionCodeFor | state-level subdivision ⓘ |
| secondLetter | Y ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| usedIn |
databases
ⓘ
government records ⓘ mail addressing ⓘ shipping forms ⓘ |
| usedSinceCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
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: KY Description of subject: KY is the official United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Kentucky.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Corydon, Kentucky, United States
subject linked to:
Kentucky and Missouri
subject linked to:
Indiana and Kentucky
subject linked to:
Meade County
subject linked to:
Greenville