ISO 14040 series
E464300
The ISO 14040 series is a set of international standards that define principles and frameworks for conducting life cycle assessment (LCA) of products and services within environmental management.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISO 14040 | 2 |
| ISO 14040 series canonical | 2 |
| ISO 14040 series (related life cycle assessment standards) | 1 |
| ISO 14044 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4616586 — 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 14040 series Context triple: [ISO 14000 family, includesStandard, ISO 14040 series]
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A.
ISO 14020 series
The ISO 14020 series is a set of international standards that provide principles and procedures for environmental labels and declarations used in product and service communication.
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B.
ISO 14000 family
The ISO 14000 family is a series of international standards that provide organizations with frameworks and tools for establishing, implementing, and improving environmental management systems and performance.
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C.
ISO 14031
ISO 14031 is an international standard that provides guidelines for organizations to evaluate and improve their environmental performance using appropriate indicators and assessment methods.
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D.
ISO 14064 series
The ISO 14064 series is a set of international standards that provide principles and requirements for quantifying, monitoring, reporting, and verifying greenhouse gas emissions and removals at the organizational and project levels.
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E.
ISO 14001
ISO 14001 is an internationally recognized standard that specifies requirements for effective environmental management systems to help organizations improve environmental performance and comply with relevant regulations.
- 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 14040 series Target entity description: The ISO 14040 series is a set of international standards that define principles and frameworks for conducting life cycle assessment (LCA) of products and services within environmental management.
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A.
ISO 14020 series
The ISO 14020 series is a set of international standards that provide principles and procedures for environmental labels and declarations used in product and service communication.
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B.
ISO 14000 family
The ISO 14000 family is a series of international standards that provide organizations with frameworks and tools for establishing, implementing, and improving environmental management systems and performance.
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C.
ISO 14031
ISO 14031 is an international standard that provides guidelines for organizations to evaluate and improve their environmental performance using appropriate indicators and assessment methods.
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D.
ISO 14064 series
The ISO 14064 series is a set of international standards that provide principles and requirements for quantifying, monitoring, reporting, and verifying greenhouse gas emissions and removals at the organizational and project levels.
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E.
ISO 14001
ISO 14001 is an internationally recognized standard that specifies requirements for effective environmental management systems to help organizations improve environmental performance and comply with relevant regulations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
environmental management standard
ⓘ
international standard series ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ISO 14040 series ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
improve comparability of LCA studies
ⓘ
reduce methodological inconsistencies in LCA ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
products
ⓘ
services ⓘ |
| category | management system standards ⓘ |
| conformsTo | ISO standardization rules ⓘ |
| defines |
framework for life cycle assessment
ⓘ
principles of life cycle assessment ⓘ |
| field |
environmental management
ⓘ
life cycle assessment ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
environmental aspects of products
ⓘ
environmental aspects of services ⓘ |
| geographicalScope | international ⓘ |
| hasPart |
ISO 14040
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 14040 series
ISO 14044 ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ other ISO official languages ⓘ |
| objective |
to ensure consistent LCA practice
ⓘ
to support environmental decision-making ⓘ |
| partOf | ISO 14000 family ⓘ |
| provides |
guidelines for LCA reporting
ⓘ
guidelines for critical review of LCA ⓘ requirements for LCA studies ⓘ |
| publisher | International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| regulates |
documentation of LCA studies
ⓘ
review procedures for LCA studies ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
eco-design
ⓘ
environmental product declarations ⓘ sustainable product development ⓘ |
| scopeIncludes |
goal and scope definition of LCA
ⓘ
life cycle impact assessment ⓘ life cycle interpretation ⓘ life cycle inventory analysis ⓘ |
| standardizes | life cycle assessment methodology ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
LCA practitioners
ⓘ
environmental managers ⓘ policy makers ⓘ product designers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
environmental performance evaluation
ⓘ
marketing and communication of environmental performance ⓘ policy-making support ⓘ product design and development ⓘ strategic planning ⓘ |
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 14040 series Description of subject: The ISO 14040 series is a set of international standards that define principles and frameworks for conducting life cycle assessment (LCA) of products and services within environmental management.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: ISO 14040 series
linked to: ISO 14040 series
linked to: ISO 14040 series