DE
E551093
DE is the United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Delaware.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DE canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5857939 — 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: DE Context triple: [Sussex County, postalAbbreviationState, DE]
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A.
DE
DE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code representing Germany in international standards and systems.
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B.
DEU
DEU is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code representing Germany.
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C.
Deutch
Deutch is a surname most notably associated with John M. Deutch, an American chemist, academic, and former Director of Central Intelligence.
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D.
DE-SH
DE-SH is the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code for the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.
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E.
Saksa
Saksa is a prominent mountain in Norway’s Sunnmøre Alps, known for its steep ascent and panoramic views over the Hjørundfjord.
- 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: DE Target entity description: DE is the United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Delaware.
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A.
DE
DE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code representing Germany in international standards and systems.
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B.
DEU
DEU is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code representing Germany.
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C.
Deutch
Deutch is a surname most notably associated with John M. Deutch, an American chemist, academic, and former Director of Central Intelligence.
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D.
DE-SH
DE-SH is the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code for the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.
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E.
Saksa
Saksa is a prominent mountain in Norway’s Sunnmøre Alps, known for its steep ascent and panoramic views over the Hjørundfjord.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | United States Postal Service state abbreviation ⓘ |
| appliesTo | U.S. state ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
state of Delaware
ⓘ
linked to:
Delaware
|
| codeStandard | USPS state abbreviation system ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| isAmbiguousWith |
Delaware (U.S. state)
ⓘ
linked to:
Delaware
Germany (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code ‘DE’) ⓘ
linked to:
Germany
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| regionType | state ⓘ |
| represents | Delaware ⓘ |
| twoLetterCode | DE ⓘ |
| uppercaseForm | DE ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| usedIn |
mailing addresses
ⓘ
postal sorting systems ⓘ shipping labels ⓘ |
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: DE Description of subject: DE is the United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Delaware.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Maryland and Delaware