IR
E802517
IR is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Iran, a large Middle Eastern nation known for its ancient Persian heritage and significant geopolitical influence.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9482502 — 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: IR Context triple: [Zahedan, countryCode, IR]
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A.
IR
IR is the IATA airline designator assigned to Iran Air, the national flag carrier of Iran.
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B.
IR
IR is the branding abbreviation used for InterRegio, a category of medium- to long-distance passenger trains operating in several European countries.
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C.
IRE
IRE is the three-letter World Rugby code representing the Ireland national rugby union team.
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D.
RI
RI is the vehicle registration code used for motor vehicles registered in the Italian province of Rieti.
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E.
RI
RI is the standard two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Rhode Island.
- 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: IR Target entity description: IR is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Iran, a large Middle Eastern nation known for its ancient Persian heritage and significant geopolitical influence.
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A.
IR
IR is the IATA airline designator assigned to Iran Air, the national flag carrier of Iran.
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B.
IR
IR is the branding abbreviation used for InterRegio, a category of medium- to long-distance passenger trains operating in several European countries.
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C.
IRE
IRE is the three-letter World Rugby code representing the Ireland national rugby union team.
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D.
RI
RI is the vehicle registration code used for motor vehicles registered in the Italian province of Rieti.
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E.
RI
RI is the standard two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Rhode Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code ⓘ |
| assignedBy | International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| associatedTLD |
.ir
ⓘ
linked to:
Iran
|
| codeFormat | two-letter Latin alphabet code ⓘ |
| codeType | country code ⓘ |
| denotesCountryFormerName | Persia ⓘ |
| denotesCountryInRegion | Middle East ⓘ |
| denotesCountryOfficialName |
Islamic Republic of Iran
ⓘ
linked to:
Iran
|
| denotesCountryWithCallingCode | +98 ⓘ |
| denotesCountryWithCapital | Tehran ⓘ |
| denotesCountryWithContinent | Asia ⓘ |
| denotesCountryWithCurrency | Iranian rial ⓘ |
| denotesCountryWithGeopoliticalRole | regional power in the Middle East ⓘ |
| denotesCountryWithHistoricalRegion | Persia ⓘ |
| denotesCountryWithISO3166-1Entry | Iran ⓘ |
| denotesCountryWithMajorResource |
natural gas
ⓘ
oil ⓘ |
| denotesCountryWithOfficialLanguage | Persian ⓘ |
| denotesCountryWithReligionMajority | Shia Islam ⓘ |
| denotesCountryWithUNMembership | United Nations member state ⓘ |
| hasAlpha3Code |
IRN
ⓘ
linked to:
Iran
|
| hasNumericCode | 364 ⓘ |
| notationSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
| partOfStandard | ISO 3166-1 ⓘ |
| represents | Iran ⓘ |
| scope | global ⓘ |
| standardizedIn | ISO 3166 ⓘ |
| status | officially assigned ⓘ |
| usedAs | country code top-level domain prefix ⓘ |
| usedFor |
customs and tariffs classification
ⓘ
encoding country information in databases ⓘ identifying Iran in international standards ⓘ international trade documentation ⓘ machine-readable travel documents ⓘ software locale and regional settings ⓘ |
| usedIn |
airline and travel reservation systems
ⓘ
country coding systems ⓘ geopolitical statistics ⓘ international data exchange ⓘ logistics and shipping ⓘ payment and banking systems ⓘ |
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: IR Description of subject: IR is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Iran, a large Middle Eastern nation known for its ancient Persian heritage and significant geopolitical influence.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.