ISO 639-3 Registration Authority
E485559
The ISO 639-3 Registration Authority is the organization responsible for maintaining and updating the ISO 639-3 standard, which assigns three-letter codes to the world’s languages.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISO 639-3 | 2 |
| ISO 639-3 Registration Authority canonical | 2 |
| ISO 639-3 language codes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4976672 — 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 639-3 Registration Authority Context triple: [gon, hasStandardizationBody, ISO 639-3 Registration Authority]
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A.
ISO 639
ISO 639 is an international standard that defines codes for the representation of names of languages.
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B.
ISO 3166-3
ISO 3166-3 is the part of the ISO 3166 standard that defines codes for countries and territories that have been removed from the current ISO 3166-1 list, providing their former country codes and their replacements.
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C.
ISO 15924
ISO 15924 is an international standard that assigns four-letter codes to the world’s writing systems and scripts for use in information processing and interchange.
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D.
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
The ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency is the international body responsible for developing and updating the ISO 3166 standard that defines country codes and their subdivisions.
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E.
ISO 3166
ISO 3166 is an international standard published by the International Organization for Standardization that defines globally recognized codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and their principal subdivisions.
- 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 639-3 Registration Authority Target entity description: The ISO 639-3 Registration Authority is the organization responsible for maintaining and updating the ISO 639-3 standard, which assigns three-letter codes to the world’s languages.
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A.
ISO 639
ISO 639 is an international standard that defines codes for the representation of names of languages.
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B.
ISO 3166-3
ISO 3166-3 is the part of the ISO 3166 standard that defines codes for countries and territories that have been removed from the current ISO 3166-1 list, providing their former country codes and their replacements.
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C.
ISO 15924
ISO 15924 is an international standard that assigns four-letter codes to the world’s writing systems and scripts for use in information processing and interchange.
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D.
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
The ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency is the international body responsible for developing and updating the ISO 3166 standard that defines country codes and their subdivisions.
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E.
ISO 3166
ISO 3166 is an international standard published by the International Organization for Standardization that defines globally recognized codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and their principal subdivisions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
language code authority
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registration authority ⓘ standards organization ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
provide stable identifiers for languages
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support cataloging and indexing of language resources ⓘ support interoperability of language data systems ⓘ |
| appliesStandard |
ISO 639
NERFINISHED
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ISO 639-3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| domain |
language identification
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language standardization ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
ensure consistency of ISO 639-3 language identifiers
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ensure uniqueness of ISO 639-3 language codes ⓘ maintain comprehensive inventory of world languages in ISO 639-3 ⓘ |
| hasProcess | formal change request procedure ⓘ |
| hasScope |
ancient languages
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constructed languages ⓘ extinct languages ⓘ historical languages ⓘ living languages ⓘ world’s languages ⓘ |
| hasStakeholder |
archives
ⓘ
language communities ⓘ language technology projects ⓘ libraries ⓘ linguists ⓘ publishers ⓘ software developers ⓘ |
| maintains | ISO 639-3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manages | ISO 639-3 code set ⓘ |
| operatesUnder | International Organization for Standardization NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatesUnderStandard | ISO 639-3:2007 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | ISO 639 standard ecosystem ⓘ |
| publishes |
ISO 639-3 change request outcomes
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ISO 639-3 code tables ⓘ ISO 639-3 documentation ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
ISO 639-1
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ISO 639-2 NERFINISHED ⓘ ISO 639-5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
adding new ISO 639-3 language codes
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assigning ISO 639-3 three-letter language codes ⓘ maintenance of ISO 639-3 standard ⓘ modifying ISO 639-3 language entries ⓘ processing change requests for ISO 639-3 ⓘ retiring ISO 639-3 language codes ⓘ updating ISO 639-3 standard ⓘ |
| usesCodeType | three-letter language codes ⓘ |
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 639-3 Registration Authority Description of subject: The ISO 639-3 Registration Authority is the organization responsible for maintaining and updating the ISO 639-3 standard, which assigns three-letter codes to the world’s languages.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ISO 639-3
subject surface form:
Tetum
this entity surface form:
ISO 639-3
this entity surface form:
ISO 639-3 language codes