ISO 3166-2:CN
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ISO 3166-2:CN is the part of the ISO 3166 standard that defines standardized subdivision codes for the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities of China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISO 3166-2:CN canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3955238 — 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 3166-2:CN Context triple: [CN-AH, regionCodeSystem, ISO 3166-2:CN]
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A.
Zhōnghuá Táiběi
Zhōnghuá Táiběi is the standard Mandarin Chinese name used in international contexts to refer to Chinese Taipei, a designation commonly applied to Taiwan in global organizations and sporting events.
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B.
Taiwan, Province of China
Taiwan, Province of China is a self-governed island territory in East Asia known for its advanced economy, vibrant democracy, and complex political status in relation to the People's Republic of China.
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C.
North China
North China is a historically and politically significant region of northern China that has long been a strategic center for military, economic, and cultural activity.
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D.
Greater China
Greater China refers to the broader cultural and economic region encompassing mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and often Taiwan, highlighting their closely linked markets and Chinese cultural heritage.
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E.
Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region
The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is a key metropolitan and economic cluster in northern China that integrates the capital Beijing, the port city Tianjin, and surrounding areas of Hebei Province.
- 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 3166-2:CN Target entity description: ISO 3166-2:CN is the part of the ISO 3166 standard that defines standardized subdivision codes for the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities of China.
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A.
Zhōnghuá Táiběi
Zhōnghuá Táiběi is the standard Mandarin Chinese name used in international contexts to refer to Chinese Taipei, a designation commonly applied to Taiwan in global organizations and sporting events.
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B.
Taiwan, Province of China
Taiwan, Province of China is a self-governed island territory in East Asia known for its advanced economy, vibrant democracy, and complex political status in relation to the People's Republic of China.
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C.
North China
North China is a historically and politically significant region of northern China that has long been a strategic center for military, economic, and cultural activity.
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D.
Greater China
Greater China refers to the broader cultural and economic region encompassing mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and often Taiwan, highlighting their closely linked markets and Chinese cultural heritage.
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E.
Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region
The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is a key metropolitan and economic cluster in northern China that integrates the capital Beijing, the port city Tianjin, and surrounding areas of Hebei Province.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ISO 3166-2 entry
ⓘ
geographic code standard ⓘ |
| appliesTo | China ⓘ |
| category | international standard ⓘ |
| codeStructure | two-part code separated by a hyphen ⓘ |
| countryCode | CN ⓘ |
| defines |
codes for autonomous regions of China
ⓘ
codes for municipalities of China ⓘ codes for provinces of China ⓘ codes for special administrative regions of China ⓘ subdivision codes for China ⓘ |
| exampleCode |
CN-11
ⓘ
CN-31 ⓘ CN-44 ⓘ |
| exampleSubdivision |
Beijing
ⓘ
surface form:
Beijing Municipality
Guangdong Province ⓘ Hong Kong, China ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Macau ⓘ
surface form:
Macao Special Administrative Region
Shanghai ⓘ
surface form:
Shanghai Municipality
Xinjiang ⓘ
surface form:
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
|
| firstPartFormat | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code CN ⓘ |
| hasNotationSystem | alphanumeric subdivision codes ⓘ |
| hasScope | first-level administrative subdivisions of China ⓘ |
| includesSubdivisionType |
autonomous region
ⓘ
municipality directly under the central government ⓘ province ⓘ special administrative region ⓘ |
| languageOfNames | Chinese ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
ⓘ
International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| partOf |
ISO 3166
ⓘ
ISO 3166 ⓘ
surface form:
ISO 3166-2
|
| regionCovered |
Hong Kong, China
ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong
Macau ⓘ
surface form:
Macao
China ⓘ
surface form:
Mainland China
|
| relatedStandard |
ISO 3166-1
ⓘ
ISO 3166-3 ⓘ |
| scriptOfNames | Latin transliteration ⓘ |
| secondPartFormat | two-digit numeric code ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
International Organization for Standardization
ⓘ
surface form:
ISO
|
| status | active ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
administrative divisions
ⓘ
geography ⓘ information encoding ⓘ |
| updateMechanism | periodic newsletters and online updates by ISO 3166/MA ⓘ |
| usedFor |
data exchange
ⓘ
geocoding ⓘ standardized identification of Chinese subdivisions ⓘ statistics ⓘ |
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 3166-2:CN Description of subject: ISO 3166-2:CN is the part of the ISO 3166 standard that defines standardized subdivision codes for the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities of China.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.