BMP
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BMP is the Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode, the primary block of code points that encodes the most commonly used characters from modern and many historic writing systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BMP canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1079742 — 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: BMP Context triple: [Basic Multilingual Plane, alsoKnownAs, BMP]
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A.
PNG
PNG is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code representing Papua New Guinea.
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B.
BMT
BMT (Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation) was a major private New York City subway operator whose lines now form one of the primary divisions of the modern NYC Subway system.
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C.
BSP
BSP is an acronym used by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) for its Billing and Settlement Plan, a system that streamlines financial transactions between travel agents and airlines.
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D.
BSP
BSP is the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines responsible for monetary policy, financial stability, and currency issuance.
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E.
.bd
.bd is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Bangladesh for use in internet addresses.
- 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: BMP Target entity description: BMP is the Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode, the primary block of code points that encodes the most commonly used characters from modern and many historic writing systems.
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A.
PNG
PNG is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code representing Papua New Guinea.
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B.
BMT
BMT (Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation) was a major private New York City subway operator whose lines now form one of the primary divisions of the modern NYC Subway system.
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C.
BSP
BSP is the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines responsible for monetary policy, financial stability, and currency issuance.
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D.
BSP
BSP is an acronym used by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) for its Billing and Settlement Plan, a system that streamlines financial transactions between travel agents and airlines.
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E.
.bd
.bd is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Bangladesh for use in internet addresses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Unicode plane
ⓘ
character encoding range ⓘ |
| abbreviation | BMP ⓘ |
| alias | Plane 0 ⓘ |
| codePointCount | 65536 ⓘ |
| codePointRangeEnd | U+FFFF ⓘ |
| codePointRangeStart | U+0000 ⓘ |
| contains |
Arabic script characters
ⓘ
CJK Unified Ideographs (basic block) ⓘ Cyrillic script characters ⓘ Devanagari script characters ⓘ Greek script characters ⓘ Hangul syllables ⓘ Hebrew script characters ⓘ Latin script characters ⓘ characters for many historic writing systems ⓘ characters for many modern writing systems ⓘ control characters ⓘ emojis in early Unicode versions ⓘ mathematical symbols ⓘ most commonly used Unicode characters ⓘ private use area (BMP PUA) ⓘ punctuation characters ⓘ technical symbols ⓘ |
| designGoal | encode the most commonly used characters ⓘ |
| encodingImpact |
forms lower range of UTF-32 code points
ⓘ
forms the basis of UCS-2 encoding ⓘ fully representable in UTF-16 using single 16-bit code units ⓘ |
| excludes |
many emoji added in later Unicode versions
ⓘ
most rare historic scripts ⓘ supplementary ideographic planes ⓘ |
| fullName | Basic Multilingual Plane ⓘ |
| hasProperty | contiguous range of Unicode scalar values ⓘ |
| hasSubset | Unicode blocks ⓘ |
| identifier |
Plane 0 (BMP)
ⓘ
linked to:
Plane 0
|
| introducedIn | Unicode 1.0 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Unicode
ⓘ
Unicode Standard ⓘ
linked to:
Unicode
|
| planeNumber | 0 ⓘ |
| privateUseAreaRange | U+E000–U+F8FF ⓘ |
| relationship | other Unicode planes are supplementary to the BMP ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | Unicode Consortium ⓘ |
| standardizedIn | ISO/IEC 10646 ⓘ |
| usedIn |
fonts
ⓘ
programming languages and APIs handling Unicode ⓘ text processing 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: BMP Description of subject: BMP is the Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode, the primary block of code points that encodes the most commonly used characters from modern and many historic writing systems.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.