FIFA country code system
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The FIFA country code system is a standardized set of three-letter abbreviations used by FIFA to identify national football teams and associations in international competitions and records.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FIFA country code system canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5867713 — 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: FIFA country code system Context triple: [SCO, codeStandard, FIFA country code system]
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A.
FIFA Member Associations
FIFA Member Associations are the national football governing bodies from around the world that collectively form FIFA’s global membership and administer the sport within their respective countries or territories.
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B.
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.
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C.
ISO 3166-1
ISO 3166-1 is an international standard published by ISO that defines globally recognized country codes in alpha-2, alpha-3, and numeric formats.
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D.
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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E.
FIFA rankings
FIFA rankings are the official system used by football’s global governing body to periodically rate and order national teams based on their international match results and performance.
- 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: FIFA country code system Target entity description: The FIFA country code system is a standardized set of three-letter abbreviations used by FIFA to identify national football teams and associations in international competitions and records.
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A.
FIFA Member Associations
FIFA Member Associations are the national football governing bodies from around the world that collectively form FIFA’s global membership and administer the sport within their respective countries or territories.
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B.
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.
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C.
ISO 3166-1
ISO 3166-1 is an international standard published by ISO that defines globally recognized country codes in alpha-2, alpha-3, and numeric formats.
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D.
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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E.
FIFA rankings
FIFA rankings are the official system used by football’s global governing body to periodically rate and order national teams based on their international match results and performance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
identifier system
ⓘ
sports code standard ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
FIFA member associations
ⓘ
linked to:
FIFA Member Associations
some non-member teams ⓘ |
| codeLength | three-letter ⓘ |
| codeType | alphabetic ⓘ |
| differsFrom |
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166-1
|
| domain | association football ⓘ |
| hasExampleCode |
ARG
ⓘ
AUS ⓘ BEL ⓘ BRA ⓘ CAN ⓘ CHN ⓘ
linked to:
China
CIV ⓘ CMR ⓘ CRC ⓘ CRO ⓘ DEN ⓘ ENG ⓘ ESP ⓘ FRA ⓘ GER ⓘ IRN ⓘ ITA ⓘ JPN ⓘ KOR ⓘ KSA ⓘ
linked to:
Saudi Arabia
MEX ⓘ NED ⓘ NGA ⓘ NIR ⓘ NOR ⓘ NZL ⓘ
linked to:
New Zealand
POL ⓘ POR ⓘ QAT ⓘ
linked to:
Qatar
RUS ⓘ SCO ⓘ SUI ⓘ SWE ⓘ URU ⓘ USA ⓘ WAL ⓘ |
| hasGoverningDocument | FIFA statutes and regulations ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | FIFA ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166-1
|
| scope | global ⓘ |
| standardizes |
team abbreviations in match reports
ⓘ
team abbreviations in tournament data ⓘ team abbreviations on scoreboards ⓘ |
| supports |
data management in FIFA competitions
ⓘ
statistics and historical records ⓘ |
| usedFor |
identifying national football associations
ⓘ
identifying national football teams ⓘ |
| usedIn |
FIFA official records
ⓘ
international football competitions ⓘ |
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: FIFA country code system Description of subject: The FIFA country code system is a standardized set of three-letter abbreviations used by FIFA to identify national football teams and associations in international competitions and records.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.