WIS
E719373
World Meteorological Organization program
global information system
meteorological information system
WIS is the World Meteorological Organization’s global information system for sharing and distributing meteorological, hydrological, and related environmental data.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WIS canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8204297 — 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: WIS Context triple: [WMO Information System, abbreviation, WIS]
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A.
WIS
WIS is the common abbreviation for Wisła Kraków, a historic Polish football club based in Kraków.
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B.
W.D. Wis.
W.D. Wis. is the standard legal abbreviation for the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, a federal trial court within the Seventh Circuit.
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C.
WIL
WIL is the standard abbreviation used for the Wilmington Blue Rocks minor league baseball team.
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D.
WIL
WIL is the IATA airport code for Wilson Airport, a busy domestic and regional airport serving Nairobi, Kenya.
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E.
WITA
WITA is the Indonesian Central Time Zone abbreviation, used for regions such as Bali and Sulawesi, which are eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
- 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: WIS Target entity description: WIS is the World Meteorological Organization’s global information system for sharing and distributing meteorological, hydrological, and related environmental data.
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A.
WIS
WIS is the common abbreviation for Wisła Kraków, a historic Polish football club based in Kraków.
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B.
W.D. Wis.
W.D. Wis. is the standard legal abbreviation for the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, a federal trial court within the Seventh Circuit.
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C.
WIL
WIL is the standard abbreviation used for the Wilmington Blue Rocks minor league baseball team.
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D.
WIL
WIL is the IATA airport code for Wilson Airport, a busy domestic and regional airport serving Nairobi, Kenya.
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E.
WITA
WITA is the Indonesian Central Time Zone abbreviation, used for regions such as Bali and Sulawesi, which are eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World Meteorological Organization program
ⓘ
global information system ⓘ meteorological information system ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf | WMO Information System ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
facilitate timely exchange of weather information
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improve availability of meteorological data ⓘ support climate services ⓘ support disaster risk reduction ⓘ |
| basedOn |
WMO technical regulations
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international standards ⓘ |
| dataType |
climate data
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environmental observations ⓘ forecasts ⓘ hydrological observations ⓘ meteorological observations ⓘ warnings ⓘ |
| domain |
environmental data
ⓘ
hydrology ⓘ meteorology ⓘ |
| fullName | WMO Information System ⓘ |
| governedBy |
WMO Executive Council
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World Meteorological Congress ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Data Collection or Production Centres
ⓘ
Global Information System Centres ⓘ
linked to:
Global Information System Centre
National Centres ⓘ |
| language |
Arabic
ⓘ
Chinese ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ Russian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| operator | World Meteorological Organization ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | World Meteorological Organization ⓘ |
| purpose |
distributing hydrological data
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distributing meteorological data ⓘ distributing related environmental data ⓘ sharing hydrological data ⓘ sharing meteorological data ⓘ sharing related environmental data ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Global Telecommunication System ⓘ |
| scope | global ⓘ |
| supports |
data access
ⓘ
data discovery ⓘ data exchange ⓘ |
| userGroup |
National Meteorological and Hydrological Services
ⓘ
environmental agencies ⓘ international organizations ⓘ research institutions ⓘ |
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: WIS Description of subject: WIS is the World Meteorological Organization’s global information system for sharing and distributing meteorological, hydrological, and related environmental data.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.