GB
E156042
GB is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GB canonical | 23 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1353533 — 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: GB Context triple: [Anstruther, countryCode, GB]
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A.
GA
GA is the commonly used abbreviation for the United Nations General Assembly, the main deliberative body of the UN where all member states are represented.
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B.
GA
GA is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Georgia.
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C.
GU
GU is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code assigned to Guam, an unincorporated territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean.
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D.
GN
GN is a fast, meta-build system tool used primarily by the Chromium project to generate build files for Ninja.
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E.
BG
BG is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code representing Bulgaria.
- 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: GB Target entity description: GB is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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A.
GA
GA is the commonly used abbreviation for the United Nations General Assembly, the main deliberative body of the UN where all member states are represented.
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B.
GA
GA is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Georgia.
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C.
GU
GU is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code assigned to Guam, an unincorporated territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean.
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D.
GN
GN is a fast, meta-build system tool used primarily by the Chromium project to generate build files for Ninja.
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E.
BG
BG is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code representing Bulgaria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code ⓘ |
| alpha2Code | GB ⓘ |
| assignedBy | International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| codeLength | 2 ⓘ |
| codeType | alpha-2 ⓘ |
| countryName |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
ⓘ
linked to:
United Kingdom
|
| governingStandardBody | ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency ⓘ |
| hasRelatedCode |
GBR
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Britain
|
| hasRelatedCodeType |
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166-1
|
| hasRelatedNumericCode | 826 ⓘ |
| hasSubdivisionCodeSystem | ISO 3166-2:GB ⓘ |
| isDifferentFrom |
UK
ⓘ
linked to:
United Kingdom
|
| isPartOfStandardSeries | ISO 3166 ⓘ |
| isUsedFor |
country coding in databases
ⓘ
country identification ⓘ international data exchange ⓘ internet standards ⓘ |
| isUsedIn |
ISO 3166-1 numeric and alpha-3 mapping tables
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166-1
|
| represents |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
ⓘ
linked to:
United Kingdom
|
| representsSovereignState | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| scope | country and territory coding ⓘ |
| standard | ISO 3166-1 ⓘ |
| status | officially assigned code element ⓘ |
| usedBy |
businesses
ⓘ
governments ⓘ information systems ⓘ international organizations ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
customs documentation
ⓘ
financial transactions ⓘ geocoding ⓘ international shipping ⓘ software localization ⓘ statistics and reporting ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: GB Description of subject: GB is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.