BE
E2720
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code
ISO 3166-1 numeric country code
country code top-level domain
BE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code that uniquely identifies Belgium in international standards and systems.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18444 — 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: BE Context triple: [Belgium, ISO3166-1Alpha2, BE]
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A.
NE
NE is the common abbreviation for the New England Revolution, a professional Major League Soccer club based in the Greater Boston area.
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B.
ATE
ATE is a U.S. National Science Foundation program that supports the education and training of technicians for advanced technology fields through partnerships between two-year colleges, industry, and other educational institutions.
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C.
ETO
ETO refers to the European Theater of Operations, the major area of military conflict in Europe during World War II involving the Allied and Axis powers.
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D.
ET
ET is the time standard used on the east coast of North America, including major cities like New York and Toronto, switching between Eastern Standard Time (EST) and Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) seasonally.
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E.
SS
The SS was a paramilitary organization of Nazi Germany that became one of the principal instruments of terror, repression, and mass murder, including the systematic genocide of Jews and other targeted groups 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: BE Target entity description: BE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code that uniquely identifies Belgium in international standards and systems.
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A.
NE
NE is the common abbreviation for the New England Revolution, a professional Major League Soccer club based in the Greater Boston area.
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B.
ATE
ATE is a U.S. National Science Foundation program that supports the education and training of technicians for advanced technology fields through partnerships between two-year colleges, industry, and other educational institutions.
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C.
PT
PT is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code that uniquely identifies Portugal in international standards and systems.
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D.
ETO
ETO refers to the European Theater of Operations, the major area of military conflict in Europe during World War II involving the Allied and Axis powers.
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E.
ET
ET is the time standard used on the east coast of North America, including major cities like New York and Toronto, switching between Eastern Standard Time (EST) and Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) seasonally.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
ⓘ
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code ⓘ ISO 3166-1 numeric country code ⓘ country code top-level domain ⓘ |
| appliesTo | territory of Belgium ⓘ |
| assignedTo |
a UN member state
ⓘ
a sovereign state ⓘ |
| associatedAlpha3Code | BEL ⓘ |
| associatedNumericCode | 56 ⓘ |
| category | country code ⓘ |
| codeLength | 2 ⓘ |
| codeType | alpha-2 ⓘ |
| countryName | Belgium ⓘ |
| firstLetter | B ⓘ |
| hasSameMeaningAs |
Belgium
ⓘ
surface form:
Belgium (country)
|
| ISO3166-1 alpha-2 code for | Belgium ⓘ |
| isUniqueWithin |
ISO 3166-1
ⓘ
surface form:
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 namespace
|
| maintainedBy | International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| notation | uppercase letters ⓘ |
| partOfStandard |
ISO 3166
ⓘ
ISO 3166-1 ⓘ |
| relatedCode | BEL ⓘ |
| represents |
Belgium
ⓘ
Belgium ⓘ Belgium ⓘ Belgium ⓘ |
| script | Latin ⓘ |
| secondLetter | E ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
International Organization for Standardization
ⓘ
surface form:
ISO Technical Committee 46
|
| status | officially assigned ⓘ |
| usedAs | basis for other coding systems ⓘ |
| usedFor |
customs and trade documentation
ⓘ
data exchange ⓘ statistical reporting ⓘ |
| usedIn |
airline and travel reservation systems
ⓘ
international country code systems ⓘ internet country identification ⓘ logistics and shipping systems ⓘ payment and banking systems ⓘ |
| usedInHumanReadableContexts | yes ⓘ |
| usedInMachineReadableContexts | yes ⓘ |
| usedInTopLevelDomain | .be ⓘ |
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: BE Description of subject: BE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code that uniquely identifies Belgium in international standards and systems.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
B
subject surface form:
Bern