ISO
E697211
ISO is a widely used optical disc image file format that encapsulates the complete contents and structure of CD, DVD, or Blu-ray media in a single file.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISO canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7938177 — 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 Context triple: [OpenStack Glance, supportsFormat, ISO]
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A.
ISO standards
ISO standards are internationally agreed-upon specifications and guidelines developed by the International Organization for Standardization to ensure quality, safety, efficiency, and interoperability across products, services, and systems.
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B.
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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C.
ISO(n)
ISO(n) is the n-dimensional Euclidean group consisting of all distance-preserving transformations—combinations of rotations, reflections, and translations—of n-dimensional Euclidean space.
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D.
ISO 3297
ISO 3297 is the international standard that defines the structure, assignment, and use of the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) for identifying serial publications.
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E.
ISO/TMB
ISO/TMB is the International Organization for Standardization’s Technical Management Board, responsible for overseeing and coordinating the organization’s technical work and standards development.
- 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 Target entity description: ISO is a widely used optical disc image file format that encapsulates the complete contents and structure of CD, DVD, or Blu-ray media in a single file.
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A.
ISO standards
ISO standards are internationally agreed-upon specifications and guidelines developed by the International Organization for Standardization to ensure quality, safety, efficiency, and interoperability across products, services, and systems.
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B.
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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C.
ISO(n)
ISO(n) is the n-dimensional Euclidean group consisting of all distance-preserving transformations—combinations of rotations, reflections, and translations—of n-dimensional Euclidean space.
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D.
ISO 3297
ISO 3297 is the international standard that defines the structure, assignment, and use of the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) for identifying serial publications.
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E.
ISO/TMB
ISO/TMB is the International Organization for Standardization’s Technical Management Board, responsible for overseeing and coordinating the organization’s technical work and standards development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archive file format
ⓘ
optical disc image file format ⓘ |
| advantage |
easy mounting in virtual drives
ⓘ
preserves original disc file layout ⓘ single-file distribution of disc contents ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | ISO image ⓘ |
| basedOn | ISO 9660 file system standard ⓘ |
| canBe |
burned to physical disc
ⓘ
mounted as virtual drive ⓘ verified with checksums ⓘ |
| canIncludeFileSystem |
ISO 9660
ⓘ
UDF ⓘ |
| canIncludeFileSystem |
Joliet
ⓘ
Rock Ridge ⓘ |
| checksumAlgorithms |
MD5
ⓘ
SHA-1 ⓘ SHA-256 ⓘ |
| commonlyCreatedBy |
disc authoring software
ⓘ
disc imaging software ⓘ |
| contains |
disc directory structure
ⓘ
disc file system metadata ⓘ disc files and folders ⓘ |
| doesNotContain |
copy protection mechanisms of original disc
ⓘ
disc physical characteristics ⓘ |
| encapsulates |
complete contents of optical disc
ⓘ
file system structure of optical disc ⓘ |
| fileExtension | .iso ⓘ |
| limitation | does not model multiple tracks with different formats as well as some other formats ⓘ |
| platformSupport |
Linux
ⓘ
Windows ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
BIN/CUE (disc image format)
ⓘ
IMG (disc image file format) ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | International Organization for Standardization (indirectly via ISO 9660) ⓘ |
| stores | sector-by-sector copy of disc data ⓘ |
| supports | bootable disc images ⓘ |
| supportsMediumType |
Blu-ray Disc
ⓘ
linked to:
Blu-ray Disc format
CD ⓘ DVD ⓘ |
| typicalUseCase |
distribution of Linux distributions
ⓘ
distribution of bootable rescue media ⓘ distribution of large software packages ⓘ |
| usedFor |
operating system installation media
ⓘ
optical disc backup ⓘ optical disc duplication ⓘ software distribution ⓘ virtual machine installation media ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: ISO is a widely used optical disc image file format that encapsulates the complete contents and structure of CD, DVD, or Blu-ray media in a single file.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.