WY
E232036
WY is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Wyoming.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WY canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2085939 — 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: WY Context triple: [Wyoming, postalAbbreviation, WY]
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A.
WY
WY is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Weyerhaeuser Company, one of the world’s largest private owners of timberlands and a major forest products company.
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B.
YN
YN is the standard abbreviation for Yunnan Province, a mountainous and ethnically diverse region in southwestern China.
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C.
WU
WU is a leading European university in Vienna specializing in economics, business, and social sciences.
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D.
WU
WU is the stock ticker symbol for Western Union, a global financial services company best known for its money transfer and payment services.
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E.
WN
WN is the IATA airline designator used to identify Southwest Airlines in flight schedules, ticketing, and aviation operations.
- 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: WY Target entity description: WY is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Wyoming.
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A.
WY
WY is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Weyerhaeuser Company, one of the world’s largest private owners of timberlands and a major forest products company.
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B.
YN
YN is the standard abbreviation for Yunnan Province, a mountainous and ethnically diverse region in southwestern China.
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C.
WU
WU is a leading European university in Vienna specializing in economics, business, and social sciences.
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D.
WU
WU is the stock ticker symbol for Western Union, a global financial services company best known for its money transfer and payment services.
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E.
WN
WN is the IATA airline designator used to identify Southwest Airlines in flight schedules, ticketing, and aviation operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Postal Service state abbreviation
ⓘ
postal abbreviation ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
state of Wyoming
ⓘ
linked to:
Wyoming
|
| belongsToSystem | USPS state and territory abbreviations ⓘ |
| character1 | W ⓘ |
| character2 | Y ⓘ |
| codeType | two-letter code ⓘ |
| contextOfUse |
domestic U.S. mail
ⓘ
international mail to the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasLength | 2 ⓘ |
| introducedBy | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| isCaseSensitive | yes ⓘ |
| languageOfContext | English ⓘ |
| notToBeConfusedWith |
ISO 3166-2:US-WY
ⓘ
linked to:
Wyoming
|
| regionTypeRepresented | U.S. state ⓘ |
| relatedStandard | USPS Publication 28 ⓘ |
| represents | Wyoming ⓘ |
| representsSubdivisionOf | United States of America ⓘ |
| standardizedIn |
United States postal addressing standards
ⓘ
linked to:
USPS Domestic Mail Manual
|
| status | official ⓘ |
| typicalCasing | uppercase ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| usedFor |
identifying U.S. state in addresses
ⓘ
mail addressing ⓘ sorting of mail ⓘ |
| usedIn |
databases storing U.S. state codes
ⓘ
government forms ⓘ return addresses ⓘ shipping labels ⓘ |
| 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: WY Description of subject: WY is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Wyoming.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.