SC
E120087
SC is the standard two-letter postal abbreviation for the U.S. state of South Carolina.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SC canonical | 30 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1034625 — 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: SC Context triple: [South Carolina, abbreviation, SC]
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A.
CR
CR is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code representing Costa Rica.
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B.
SE
SE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code that uniquely identifies Sweden in international standards and systems.
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C.
EC
EC is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Ecuador.
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D.
SV
SV is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to El Salvador.
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E.
SD
SD is the abbreviated name commonly used for the SS Security Service, the intelligence and security agency of Nazi Germany’s Schutzstaffel.
- 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: SC Target entity description: SC is the standard two-letter postal abbreviation for the U.S. state of South Carolina.
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A.
CR
CR is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code representing Costa Rica.
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B.
SE
SE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code that uniquely identifies Sweden in international standards and systems.
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C.
EC
EC is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Ecuador.
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D.
SV
SV is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to El Salvador.
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E.
SD
SD is the abbreviated name commonly used for the SS Security Service, the intelligence and security agency of Nazi Germany’s Schutzstaffel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States postal abbreviation
ⓘ
two-letter state abbreviation ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
South Carolina state government
ⓘ
U.S. state ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
state of South Carolina
ⓘ
linked to:
South Carolina
|
| codeLength | 2 ⓘ |
| codeType | state postal code ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| firstLetter | S ⓘ |
| isUppercase | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notationSystem |
ISO basic Latin alphabet
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 646
|
| notToBeConfusedWith | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code SC for Seychelles ⓘ |
| partOfStandard | U.S. state and territory postal abbreviations ⓘ |
| regionCodeFor | South Carolina ⓘ |
| represents | South Carolina ⓘ |
| script | Latin script ⓘ |
| secondLetter | C ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| usedBy |
businesses in the United States
ⓘ
federal agencies in the United States ⓘ logistics companies ⓘ state agencies in the United States ⓘ |
| usedFor |
location identification
ⓘ
mail addressing ⓘ package shipping ⓘ |
| usedIn |
U.S. postal addresses
ⓘ
United States Postal Service ⓘ ZIP Code databases ⓘ geocoding 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: SC Description of subject: SC is the standard two-letter postal abbreviation for the U.S. state of South Carolina.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.