TW
E22640
TW is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code assigned to Taiwan (commonly referred to as Chinese Taipei in certain international contexts).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| TW canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T180263 — 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: TW Context triple: [Chinese Taipei, ISO3166Code, TW]
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A.
TR
TR is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Turkey for international standardization and referencing.
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B.
W
W is one of the iconic white capital letters that make up the famous Hollywood Sign overlooking Los Angeles.
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C.
PT
PT is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code that uniquely identifies Portugal in international standards and systems.
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D.
the T
The T is the public transit system serving the Greater Boston area, operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
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E.
SV
SV is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to El Salvador.
- 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: TW Target entity description: TW is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code assigned to Taiwan (commonly referred to as Chinese Taipei in certain international contexts).
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A.
TR
TR is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Turkey for international standardization and referencing.
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B.
W
W is one of the iconic white capital letters that make up the famous Hollywood Sign overlooking Los Angeles.
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C.
PT
PT is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code that uniquely identifies Portugal in international standards and systems.
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D.
the T
The T is the public transit system serving the Greater Boston area, operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
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E.
SV
SV is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to El Salvador.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code ⓘ |
| assignedBy | International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| associatedName |
Chinese Taipei
ⓘ
Taiwan ⓘ
linked to:
Taiwan, Province of China
|
| associatedShortName | Taiwan, Province of China ⓘ |
| category | ISO 3166 code for Asia ⓘ |
| codeType | alpha-2 ⓘ |
| hasAlpha2Code | TW ⓘ |
| hasAlpha3Code | TWN ⓘ |
| hasNumericCode | 158 ⓘ |
| hasRelatedCcTLD | .tw ⓘ |
| hasRelatedTelephoneCountryCode | +886 ⓘ |
| includedIn |
ISO 3166-1 standard list
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166-1
|
| length | 2 characters ⓘ |
| notation | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| partOfStandard | ISO 3166-1 ⓘ |
| region | Asia ⓘ |
| represents |
Taiwan
ⓘ
linked to:
Formosa
|
| representsTerritory |
Kinmen
ⓘ
Matsu ⓘ
linked to:
Matsu Islands
Penghu ⓘ
linked to:
Penghu Islands
Taiwan (main island) ⓘ
linked to:
Formosa
|
| script | Latin ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency ⓘ |
| status | officially assigned ⓘ |
| subregion |
Eastern Asia
ⓘ
linked to:
East Asia
|
| usedAs | country code top-level domain prefix ⓘ |
| usedBy |
United Nations statistics systems
ⓘ
airlines ⓘ financial institutions ⓘ international organizations ⓘ shipping companies ⓘ software systems ⓘ |
| usedFor | country identification ⓘ |
| usedIn |
airline ticketing
ⓘ
data exchange ⓘ geocoding ⓘ international standards ⓘ international trade ⓘ internet technologies ⓘ logistics ⓘ payment systems ⓘ statistics ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
country coding
ⓘ
customs documentation ⓘ international sports coding ⓘ machine-readable travel documents ⓘ |
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: TW Description of subject: TW is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code assigned to Taiwan (commonly referred to as Chinese Taipei in certain international contexts).
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.