DE-BY
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DE-BY is the ISO 3166-2 regional code for the German federal state of Bavaria.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DE-BY canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6870172 — 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: DE-BY Context triple: [Garching, regionCode, DE-BY]
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A.
DEU
DEU is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code representing Germany.
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B.
DE-BW
DE-BW is the ISO 3166-2 code for the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg.
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C.
DE
DE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code representing Germany in international standards and systems.
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D.
DE
DE is the United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Delaware.
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E.
DE-SH
DE-SH is the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code for the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.
- 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: DE-BY Target entity description: DE-BY is the ISO 3166-2 regional code for the German federal state of Bavaria.
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A.
DEU
DEU is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code representing Germany.
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B.
DE-BW
DE-BW is the ISO 3166-2 code for the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg.
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C.
DE
DE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code representing Germany in international standards and systems.
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D.
DE
DE is the United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Delaware.
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E.
DE-SH
DE-SH is the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code for the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ISO 3166-2 region code
ⓘ
geocode ⓘ |
| appliesTo | territory of Bavaria ⓘ |
| category | ISO 3166-2 codes of Germany ⓘ |
| codeStructure | two-part code separated by hyphen ⓘ |
| countryCode | DE ⓘ |
| countryName | Germany ⓘ |
| firstPartMeaning | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Germany ⓘ |
| hasType | code for principal subdivision ⓘ |
| isUniqueWithin | Germany ⓘ |
| languageOfCodeElements | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency ⓘ |
| notation | DE-BY ⓘ |
| partOfStandard | ISO 3166 ⓘ |
| regionName | Bavaria ⓘ |
| represents |
Bavaria
ⓘ
Free State of Bavaria ⓘ
linked to:
Federal state of Bavaria
|
| representsSubdivisionOf | Germany ⓘ |
| script | Latin ⓘ |
| secondPartMeaning | code for the state of Bavaria ⓘ |
| standard |
ISO 3166-2
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166
|
| subdivisionCategory |
Land
ⓘ
federal state ⓘ |
| subdivisionCode | BY ⓘ |
| subdivisionLevel | first-level ⓘ |
| usedFor |
data exchange
ⓘ
geographical information systems ⓘ statistics ⓘ |
| usedIn | administrative subdivision coding ⓘ |
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: DE-BY Description of subject: DE-BY is the ISO 3166-2 regional code for the German federal state of Bavaria.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.