ISO/IEC 8859-16
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ISO/IEC 8859-16 is an 8-bit single-byte character encoding standard designed to support various Central, Eastern, and Southern European languages using Latin script.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISO/IEC 8859-16 canonical | 1 |
| Latin-10 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6442109 — 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/IEC 8859-16 Context triple: [ISO/IEC 8859, hasMember, ISO/IEC 8859-16]
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A.
ISO/IEC 8859-14
ISO/IEC 8859-14 is an 8-bit character encoding standard in the ISO/IEC 8859 series designed primarily for Celtic languages such as Irish, Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic.
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B.
ISO/IEC 8859-10
ISO/IEC 8859-10 is an 8-bit character encoding standard designed to support Nordic and other Northern European languages using Latin script.
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C.
ISO/IEC 8859-15
ISO/IEC 8859-15 is an 8-bit single-byte character encoding standard for Western European languages that updates ISO/IEC 8859-1 by including the euro sign and additional characters for improved linguistic coverage.
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D.
ISO/IEC 8859-13
ISO/IEC 8859-13 is an 8-bit character encoding standard designed primarily for Baltic languages such as Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian.
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E.
ISO/IEC 8859-3
ISO/IEC 8859-3 is an 8-bit character encoding standard designed to support South European languages, including Maltese, Turkish, and Esperanto.
- 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/IEC 8859-16 Target entity description: ISO/IEC 8859-16 is an 8-bit single-byte character encoding standard designed to support various Central, Eastern, and Southern European languages using Latin script.
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A.
ISO/IEC 8859-14
ISO/IEC 8859-14 is an 8-bit character encoding standard in the ISO/IEC 8859 series designed primarily for Celtic languages such as Irish, Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic.
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B.
ISO/IEC 8859-10
ISO/IEC 8859-10 is an 8-bit character encoding standard designed to support Nordic and other Northern European languages using Latin script.
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C.
ISO/IEC 8859-15
ISO/IEC 8859-15 is an 8-bit single-byte character encoding standard for Western European languages that updates ISO/IEC 8859-1 by including the euro sign and additional characters for improved linguistic coverage.
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D.
ISO/IEC 8859-13
ISO/IEC 8859-13 is an 8-bit character encoding standard designed primarily for Baltic languages such as Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian.
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E.
ISO/IEC 8859-3
ISO/IEC 8859-3 is an 8-bit character encoding standard designed to support South European languages, including Maltese, Turkish, and Esperanto.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | character encoding standard ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Latin-10
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO/IEC 8859-16
|
| belongsTo |
ISO/IEC 8859 Latin encodings family
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO/IEC 8859
|
| bitWidth | 8-bit ⓘ |
| characterSetType | single-byte coded graphic character set ⓘ |
| codePageSize | 256 code points ⓘ |
| codeUnitSize | 1 byte ⓘ |
| compatibleWith | US-ASCII for codes 0–127 ⓘ |
| conformsTo |
ISO/IEC 8859 specification framework
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO/IEC 8859
|
| contains | ASCII characters in lower half (0–127) ⓘ |
| designGoal | support Central, Eastern, and Southern European languages using Latin script ⓘ |
| encodingFamily |
ISO 8-bit character sets
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO/IEC 8859
|
| encodingForm | single-byte ⓘ |
| hasCategory | legacy character encoding ⓘ |
| hasCharacterRepertoire | Latin alphabet with additional diacritics for European languages ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
8-bit clean
ⓘ
single-byte per character ⓘ |
| intendedUse | text encoding ⓘ |
| isSupersededInPracticeBy |
UTF-8
ⓘ
Unicode ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | ISO/IEC 8859 ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
ISO/IEC 8859-1
ⓘ
ISO/IEC 8859-15 ⓘ ISO/IEC 8859-2 ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
International Electrotechnical Commission
ⓘ
International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| supportsLanguageGroup |
Central European languages
ⓘ
Eastern European languages ⓘ Southern European languages ⓘ |
| supportsRegion | Europe ⓘ |
| supportsScriptVariant | extended Latin characters ⓘ |
| usedFor | representation of European languages in legacy systems ⓘ |
| usesCodePointsRange | 0–255 ⓘ |
| usesEncodingModel | single-byte substitution mapping ⓘ |
| usesScript | Latin script ⓘ |
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/IEC 8859-16 Description of subject: ISO/IEC 8859-16 is an 8-bit single-byte character encoding standard designed to support various Central, Eastern, and Southern European languages using Latin script.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: ISO/IEC 8859-16