UN/LOCODE
E12445
UN/LOCODE is an international coding system developed by the United Nations to uniquely identify locations used in trade and transport, such as ports, airports, and other logistics hubs.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| UN/LOCODE canonical | 97 |
| UN/LOCODE system | 19 |
| UN/LOCODE directory | 11 |
| United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations | 7 |
| UN/LOCODE scheme | 4 |
| UN/LOCODE Manual | 2 |
| UN/LOCODE secretariat | 2 |
| UN/LOCODE Italy entries | 1 |
| UN/LOCODE Maintenance Agency | 1 |
| UN/LOCODE database | 1 |
| UN/LOCODE maintenance agency | 1 |
| UN/LOCODEs | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T98061 — 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: UN/LOCODE Context triple: [USBOS, partOfSystem, UN/LOCODE]
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A.
ISO 3166-1
ISO 3166-1 is an international standard published by ISO that defines globally recognized country codes in alpha-2, alpha-3, and numeric formats.
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B.
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
The ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency is the international body responsible for developing and updating the ISO 3166 standard that defines country codes and their subdivisions.
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C.
UNECE Inland Transport Committee
The UNECE Inland Transport Committee is a key intergovernmental body that develops international regulations, standards, and policies to facilitate safe, efficient, and sustainable inland transport across the UNECE region.
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D.
World Customs Organization
The World Customs Organization is an intergovernmental body that develops international customs standards and promotes cooperation among national customs administrations to facilitate trade and ensure border security.
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E.
Country Code Names Supporting Organization
The Country Code Names Supporting Organization is a policy-development body within ICANN that represents and coordinates the interests of country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) managers worldwide.
- 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: UN/LOCODE Target entity description: UN/LOCODE is an international coding system developed by the United Nations to uniquely identify locations used in trade and transport, such as ports, airports, and other logistics hubs.
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A.
ISO 3166-1
ISO 3166-1 is an international standard published by ISO that defines globally recognized country codes in alpha-2, alpha-3, and numeric formats.
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B.
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
The ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency is the international body responsible for developing and updating the ISO 3166 standard that defines country codes and their subdivisions.
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C.
UNECE Inland Transport Committee
The UNECE Inland Transport Committee is a key intergovernmental body that develops international regulations, standards, and policies to facilitate safe, efficient, and sustainable inland transport across the UNECE region.
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D.
World Customs Organization
The World Customs Organization is an intergovernmental body that develops international customs standards and promotes cooperation among national customs administrations to facilitate trade and ensure border security.
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E.
Country Code Names Supporting Organization
The Country Code Names Supporting Organization is a policy-development body within ICANN that represents and coordinates the interests of country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) managers worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United Nations standard
ⓘ
geographic coding system ⓘ location code standard ⓘ |
| abbreviation | UN/LOCODE ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
airports
ⓘ
inland locations used in trade ⓘ multimodal terminals ⓘ river ports ⓘ seaports ⓘ |
| basedOnStandard |
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166-1
|
| codeStructure | five-character alphanumeric code ⓘ |
| covers |
airports
ⓘ
border crossing points ⓘ inland clearance depots ⓘ inland freight terminals ⓘ other locations relevant to trade and transport ⓘ ports ⓘ postal exchange offices ⓘ rail terminals ⓘ road terminals ⓘ |
| developedBy |
UNECE
ⓘ
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe ⓘ |
| domain |
international trade
ⓘ
logistics ⓘ transport ⓘ |
| fullName |
United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations
ⓘ
linked to:
UN/LOCODE
|
| governedBy |
UN/LOCODE Manual
ⓘ
linked to:
UN/LOCODE
|
| hasLanguage |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| includesComponent |
three-character location code
ⓘ
two-letter country code based on ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ⓘ |
| includesInformationOn |
administrative subdivision
ⓘ
geographical coordinates ⓘ location function ⓘ location name ⓘ status of the location ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
UNECE
ⓘ
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe ⓘ |
| managedBy |
UN/LOCODE secretariat
ⓘ
linked to:
UN/LOCODE
|
| publisher | UNECE ⓘ |
| purpose |
to facilitate trade and transport by standardizing location codes
ⓘ
to support electronic data interchange in logistics and trade ⓘ to uniquely identify locations used in international trade and transport ⓘ |
| scope | global ⓘ |
| supports |
data exchange between information systems
ⓘ
supply chain management ⓘ trade facilitation ⓘ transport planning ⓘ |
| usedBy |
customs authorities
ⓘ
freight forwarders ⓘ international organizations ⓘ logistics service providers ⓘ shipping companies ⓘ |
| usedFor |
customs procedures
ⓘ
electronic data interchange ⓘ logistics ⓘ shipping documentation ⓘ trade ⓘ transport ⓘ |
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: UN/LOCODE Description of subject: UN/LOCODE is an international coding system developed by the United Nations to uniquely identify locations used in trade and transport, such as ports, airports, and other logistics hubs.
Referenced by (147)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: UN/LOCODE
linked to: UN/LOCODE
linked to: UN/LOCODE
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linked to: UN/LOCODE
linked to: UN/LOCODE
linked to: UN/LOCODE