BFA
E788964
BFA is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Burkina Faso.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BFA canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9259258 — 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: BFA Context triple: [BF, hasAlpha3Code, BFA]
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A.
BFA
BFA is the commonly used abbreviation for the British Fantasy Award, a prestigious honor recognizing excellence in fantasy literature and related media.
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B.
Bf
Bf is the aircraft designation prefix historically used for military aircraft designed or built by the German manufacturer Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, notably including early Messerschmitt fighters.
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C.
BA
BA is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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D.
BA
BA is the IATA code for British Airways, the United Kingdom’s flag carrier and one of the world’s largest international airlines.
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E.
BA
BA is the commonly used abbreviation for the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a historic organization dedicated to promoting science and its understanding.
- 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: BFA Target entity description: BFA is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Burkina Faso.
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A.
BFA
BFA is the commonly used abbreviation for the British Fantasy Award, a prestigious honor recognizing excellence in fantasy literature and related media.
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B.
Bf
Bf is the aircraft designation prefix historically used for military aircraft designed or built by the German manufacturer Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, notably including early Messerschmitt fighters.
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C.
BA
BA is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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D.
BA
BA is the IATA code for British Airways, the United Kingdom’s flag carrier and one of the world’s largest international airlines.
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E.
BA
BA is the commonly used abbreviation for the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a historic organization dedicated to promoting science and its understanding.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code ⓘ |
| appliesToEntityType | sovereign state ⓘ |
| appliesToRegion | West Africa ⓘ |
| appliesToUNMemberState | Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| assignedBy |
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
ⓘ
International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| codeLength | 3 ⓘ |
| codeType | alpha-3 ⓘ |
| hasAlpha2Code | BF ⓘ |
| hasCategory | country code ⓘ |
| hasCountryNameEnglish | Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| hasCountryNameFrench | Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| hasNumericCode | 854 ⓘ |
| isPartOfStandard |
ISO 3166
ⓘ
ISO 3166-1 ⓘ |
| isUniqueWithinStandard | true ⓘ |
| previouslyRepresented |
Upper Volta
ⓘ
linked to:
Colony of Upper Volta
|
| represents | Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| script | Latin ⓘ |
| standardizedSince | 1984 ⓘ |
| status | official ⓘ |
| usedBy |
European Union
ⓘ
United Nations ⓘ global databases ⓘ international organizations ⓘ |
| usedIn |
banking
ⓘ
country coding ⓘ customs ⓘ international data exchange ⓘ statistics ⓘ transport ⓘ travel documentation ⓘ |
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: BFA Description of subject: BFA is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Burkina Faso.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.