ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
E4618
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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency canonical | 244 |
| ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency newsletters | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T34518 — 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: ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency Context triple: [MX, governingStandardBody, ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency]
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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 3166-1 numeric
ISO 3166-1 numeric is the part of the ISO 3166 standard that assigns three-digit numeric country codes used internationally for data processing and classification.
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C.
International Organization for Standardization
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental international body that develops and publishes globally recognized standards to ensure quality, safety, efficiency, and interoperability across a wide range of industries and technologies.
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D.
International Telecommunication Union
The International Telecommunication Union is a specialized United Nations agency responsible for coordinating global telecommunications networks, services, and radio-frequency spectrum use.
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E.
ISO 3166-2:PR
ISO 3166-2:PR is the subdivision code entry in the ISO 3166-2 standard that defines the territorial code for Puerto Rico.
- 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: ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency Target entity description: 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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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 3166-1 numeric
ISO 3166-1 numeric is the part of the ISO 3166 standard that assigns three-digit numeric country codes used internationally for data processing and classification.
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C.
International Organization for Standardization
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental international body that develops and publishes globally recognized standards to ensure quality, safety, efficiency, and interoperability across a wide range of industries and technologies.
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D.
International Telecommunication Union
The International Telecommunication Union is a specialized United Nations agency responsible for coordinating global telecommunications networks, services, and radio-frequency spectrum use.
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E.
ISO 3166-2:PR
ISO 3166-2:PR is the subdivision code entry in the ISO 3166-2 standard that defines the territorial code for Puerto Rico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ISO body
ⓘ
maintenance agency ⓘ standards organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ISO 3166/MA ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
countries
ⓘ
dependent territories ⓘ special areas of geographical interest ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
country codes
ⓘ
subdivision codes ⓘ territory codes ⓘ |
| governs |
rules for assignment of new ISO 3166 code elements
ⓘ
rules for changes to ISO 3166 code elements ⓘ |
| hasScope | global ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Geneva ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| maintainsList |
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166-1
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166-1
ISO 3166-1 numeric codes ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166-1 numeric
ISO 3166-2 subdivision codes ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166
ISO 3166-3 former country codes ⓘ |
| mandate |
ensure consistency of country and territory codes
ⓘ
maintain stability of ISO 3166 code elements ⓘ |
| name | ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency ⓘ |
| operatesUnder | International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
assignment of new country codes
ⓘ
deletion of country codes ⓘ development of ISO 3166 ⓘ modification of existing country codes ⓘ publication of ISO 3166 country codes ⓘ publication of ISO 3166 subdivision codes ⓘ publication of newsletters for ISO 3166 changes ⓘ reservation of country codes ⓘ updating ISO 3166 ⓘ |
| sector | international standardization ⓘ |
| standardMaintained |
ISO 3166
ⓘ
ISO 3166-1 ⓘ ISO 3166-2 ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166
ISO 3166-3 ⓘ |
| subjectOf | ISO 3166 standard documentation ⓘ |
| usesLanguage |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| website | https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html ⓘ |
| worksWith |
United Nations statistics bodies
ⓘ
national standards bodies ⓘ other international organizations ⓘ |
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: ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (245)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.