ISO 3166-2:GB
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ISO 3166-2:GB is the part of the ISO 3166-2 standard that defines the official codes for the principal subdivisions (such as countries of the UK and their administrative areas) of the United Kingdom.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISO 3166-2:GB canonical | 6 |
| ISO 3166-2 codes for the United Kingdom and its territories | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6795478 — 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 3166-2:GB Context triple: [GB, hasSubdivisionCodeSystem, ISO 3166-2:GB]
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A.
ISO 3166-2:VG
ISO 3166-2:VG is the ISO standard that defines the subdivision codes for the British Virgin Islands.
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B.
ISO 3166-2:SM
ISO 3166-2:SM is the subdivision code set within the ISO 3166-2 standard that defines codes for the principal subdivisions of San Marino.
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C.
England and Wales
England and Wales is a legal jurisdiction within the United Kingdom, encompassing two of its constituent countries and sharing a unified legal system and many governmental institutions.
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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.
UK
UK is the stock ticker symbol for Union Carbide Corporation, a major American chemical and polymers company historically known for its industrial products and the Bhopal disaster.
- 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 3166-2:GB Target entity description: ISO 3166-2:GB is the part of the ISO 3166-2 standard that defines the official codes for the principal subdivisions (such as countries of the UK and their administrative areas) of the United Kingdom.
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A.
ISO 3166-2:VG
ISO 3166-2:VG is the ISO standard that defines the subdivision codes for the British Virgin Islands.
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B.
ISO 3166-2:SM
ISO 3166-2:SM is the subdivision code set within the ISO 3166-2 standard that defines codes for the principal subdivisions of San Marino.
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C.
England and Wales
England and Wales is a legal jurisdiction within the United Kingdom, encompassing two of its constituent countries and sharing a unified legal system and many governmental institutions.
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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.
UK
UK is the stock ticker symbol for Union Carbide Corporation, a major American chemical and polymers company historically known for its industrial products and the Bhopal disaster.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ISO 3166-2 entry
ⓘ
geocode standard ⓘ |
| appliesTo | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| codeExample |
GB-BIR
ⓘ
GB-ENG ⓘ GB-LND ⓘ GB-NIR ⓘ GB-SCT ⓘ GB-WLS ⓘ |
| codeStructure | two-part code separated by a hyphen ⓘ |
| countryCode | GB ⓘ |
| coversSubdivisionType |
London borough
ⓘ
council area ⓘ country of the United Kingdom ⓘ county ⓘ district ⓘ island area ⓘ metropolitan district ⓘ region ⓘ special local authority area ⓘ unitary authority ⓘ |
| defines |
codes for administrative areas of the United Kingdom
ⓘ
codes for countries of the United Kingdom ⓘ codes for principal subdivisions of the United Kingdom ⓘ codes for subdivisions of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstPartFormat | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code GB ⓘ |
| includesSubdivision |
England
ⓘ
Northern Ireland ⓘ Scotland ⓘ Wales ⓘ |
| languageOfNames |
English
ⓘ
Scottish Gaelic ⓘ Ulster Scots ⓘ
linked to:
Ulster Scots language
Welsh ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
ⓘ
International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| parentStandard | ISO 3166-1 ⓘ |
| partOf |
ISO 3166
ⓘ
ISO 3166-2 ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166
|
| regionCodeSystem | global ⓘ |
| relatedStandard |
ISO 3166-2:FR
ⓘ
ISO 3166-2:IE ⓘ |
| secondPartFormat | one to three letters ⓘ |
| secondPartRepresents | subdivision identifier ⓘ |
| standardType | geographical subdivision code ⓘ |
| status | active ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administrative referencing
ⓘ
data exchange ⓘ geocoding ⓘ statistical analysis ⓘ |
| usesParentCode | GB ⓘ |
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 3166-2:GB Description of subject: ISO 3166-2:GB is the part of the ISO 3166-2 standard that defines the official codes for the principal subdivisions (such as countries of the UK and their administrative areas) of the United Kingdom.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.