Shift JIS
E732895
Shift JIS is a character encoding for the Japanese language widely used on PCs and early software systems in Japan.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shift_JIS | 2 |
| Shift JIS canonical | 1 |
| Shift-JIS | 1 |
| Shift_JIS-2004 | 1 |
| Windows-31J | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8413341 — 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: Shift JIS Context triple: [Human68k, supportsCharacterSet, Shift JIS]
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A.
Bugis script
Bugis script is a traditional Brahmic writing system used primarily for the Buginese language of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
CJK Unified Ideographs
CJK Unified Ideographs is a standardized set of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean logographic characters encoded in Unicode to unify and represent Han-based writing systems across East Asia.
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C.
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E is a Unicode block that adds a large set of rare and historic Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters to support extended East Asian text usage.
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D.
Katakana
Katakana is one of the two main Japanese phonetic writing systems, primarily used for foreign words, onomatopoeia, emphasis, and technical or scientific terms.
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E.
UCS-2
UCS-2 is a fixed-length 16-bit character encoding that represents Unicode code points in the Basic Multilingual Plane, preceding and largely superseded by UTF-16.
- 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: Shift JIS Target entity description: Shift JIS is a character encoding for the Japanese language widely used on PCs and early software systems in Japan.
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A.
Bugis script
Bugis script is a traditional Brahmic writing system used primarily for the Buginese language of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
CJK Unified Ideographs
CJK Unified Ideographs is a standardized set of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean logographic characters encoded in Unicode to unify and represent Han-based writing systems across East Asia.
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C.
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E is a Unicode block that adds a large set of rare and historic Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters to support extended East Asian text usage.
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D.
Katakana
Katakana is one of the two main Japanese phonetic writing systems, primarily used for foreign words, onomatopoeia, emphasis, and technical or scientific terms.
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E.
UCS-2
UCS-2 is a fixed-length 16-bit character encoding that represents Unicode code points in the Basic Multilingual Plane, preceding and largely superseded by UTF-16.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese character encoding
ⓘ
character encoding ⓘ character set ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
MS Kanji
ⓘ
SJIS ⓘ Shift-JIS ⓘ
linked to:
Shift JIS
Shift_JIS ⓘ
linked to:
Shift JIS
|
| basedOn |
JIS X 0201
ⓘ
JIS X 0208 ⓘ |
| byteStructure |
double-byte characters
ⓘ
single-byte characters ⓘ |
| characterWidthModel | variable-width encoding ⓘ |
| codePageNumber | 932 ⓘ |
| codePageOwner |
Microsoft Windows
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
|
| designGoal |
backward compatibility with JIS X 0201
ⓘ
support for JIS X 0208 Kanji ⓘ |
| developedBy |
ASCII Corporation
ⓘ
Microsoft ⓘ |
| encodingFamily | JIS encodings ⓘ |
| encodingFor | Japanese language ⓘ |
| hasIssue |
ambiguous byte sequences in mixed encodings
ⓘ
mojibake risk when mis-decoded ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Shift_JIS-2004
ⓘ
linked to:
Shift JIS
Windows-31J ⓘ
linked to:
Shift JIS
|
| IANAName |
Shift_JIS
ⓘ
linked to:
Shift JIS
|
| isCompatibleWith | ASCII for single-byte range ⓘ |
| isNot | Unicode ⓘ |
| primaryUseRegion | Japan ⓘ |
| registeredWith | IANA ⓘ |
| standardizedIn |
JIS X 0201
ⓘ
JIS X 0208 ⓘ |
| supersededBy |
UTF-8
ⓘ
Unicode encodings ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Japanese email before Unicode adoption
ⓘ
Japanese web pages before UTF-8 dominance ⓘ legacy Japanese business applications ⓘ legacy Japanese game software ⓘ |
| usesScript |
Cyrillic script
ⓘ
Greek script ⓘ Half-width Katakana ⓘ Hiragana ⓘ Kanji ⓘ Katakana ⓘ Latin script ⓘ |
| wasWidelyUsedOn |
MS-DOS in Japan
ⓘ
Windows in Japan ⓘ early Japanese software systems ⓘ personal computers in Japan ⓘ |
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: Shift JIS Description of subject: Shift JIS is a character encoding for the Japanese language widely used on PCs and early software systems in Japan.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shift JIS
linked to: Shift JIS
linked to: Shift JIS
linked to: Shift JIS