UTF-32
E23921
UTF-32 is a fixed-length Unicode character encoding that represents each code point using 32 bits, providing simple indexing at the cost of higher memory usage.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| UTF-32 canonical | 10 |
| System.Text.UTF32Encoding | 1 |
| UTF-32 (conceptually, as 32-bit form) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T188949 — 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: UTF-32 Context triple: [Unicode, hasEncodingForm, UTF-32]
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A.
Unicode
Unicode is a universal character encoding standard that assigns unique code points to virtually all written scripts, symbols, and emojis used in modern computing.
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B.
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin-1 Supplement is a Unicode block that extends the basic Latin script with additional characters, including accented letters and symbols used in many Western European languages.
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C.
Cyrillic Extended-B
Cyrillic Extended-B is a Unicode block that contains additional Cyrillic characters used for writing various minority and historic languages that employ the Cyrillic script.
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D.
Latin Extended-B
Latin Extended-B is a Unicode block that adds additional Latin characters used for various historical, phonetic, and minority language orthographies beyond the basic Latin set.
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E.
FÜ
FÜ is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the city of Fürth in Bavaria, Germany.
- 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: UTF-32 Target entity description: UTF-32 is a fixed-length Unicode character encoding that represents each code point using 32 bits, providing simple indexing at the cost of higher memory usage.
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A.
Unicode
Unicode is a universal character encoding standard that assigns unique code points to virtually all written scripts, symbols, and emojis used in modern computing.
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B.
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin-1 Supplement is a Unicode block that extends the basic Latin script with additional characters, including accented letters and symbols used in many Western European languages.
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C.
Cyrillic Extended-B
Cyrillic Extended-B is a Unicode block that contains additional Cyrillic characters used for writing various minority and historic languages that employ the Cyrillic script.
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D.
Latin Extended-B
Latin Extended-B is a Unicode block that adds additional Latin characters used for various historical, phonetic, and minority language orthographies beyond the basic Latin set.
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E.
FÜ
FÜ is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the city of Fürth in Bavaria, Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Unicode transformation format
ⓘ
character encoding ⓘ fixed-length encoding ⓘ |
| BOMCodeUnit | 0x0000FEFF ⓘ |
| codeUnitSize | 4 bytes ⓘ |
| doesNotEncode | noncharacters outside Unicode range ⓘ |
| encodes | Unicode code points ⓘ |
| hasDisadvantage |
increased bandwidth usage
ⓘ
larger cache footprint ⓘ |
| hasEndianness |
big-endian
ⓘ
little-endian ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
direct mapping between code point and code unit
ⓘ
fixed-length code units ⓘ high memory usage per character ⓘ no surrogate pairs ⓘ simple indexing by code point ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
UTF-32BE
ⓘ
UTF-32LE ⓘ |
| introducedTo | provide simple mapping from code point index to memory offset ⓘ |
| isAlternativeTo |
UTF-1
ⓘ
UTF-16 ⓘ UTF-7 ⓘ UTF-8 ⓘ |
| isCommonlyUsedIn |
some programming language runtimes
ⓘ
some text processing libraries ⓘ |
| isCompatibleWith | Unicode scalar values ⓘ |
| isDefinedBy |
Unicode Standard
ⓘ
linked to:
Unicode
|
| isLessEfficientThan |
UTF-16 for storage
ⓘ
UTF-8 for storage ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Unicode Standard encodings
ⓘ
linked to:
Unicode Standard Annexes
|
| isRarelyUsedFor |
file storage
ⓘ
web content ⓘ |
| isRelatedTo | UCS-4 ⓘ |
| isStandardizedBy |
ISO/IEC 10646
ⓘ
Unicode Consortium ⓘ |
| isUsedFor |
APIs requiring constant-time indexing
ⓘ
internal string representation ⓘ |
| mayUse | byte order mark ⓘ |
| supportsCodeSpace | U+000000 to U+10FFFF ⓘ |
| supportsPlane |
Basic Multilingual Plane
ⓘ
Supplementary Ideographic Plane ⓘ Supplementary Multilingual Plane ⓘ Supplementary Private Use Area-A ⓘ Supplementary Private Use Area-B ⓘ Supplementary Special-purpose Plane ⓘ |
| usesBitWidth | 32 bits per code point ⓘ |
| wasPreviouslyCalled | UCS-4 ⓘ |
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: UTF-32 Description of subject: UTF-32 is a fixed-length Unicode character encoding that represents each code point using 32 bits, providing simple indexing at the cost of higher memory usage.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: UTF-32
linked to: UTF-32