ISO 639-3
E814176
ISO 639-3 is an international standard that assigns three-letter codes to uniquely identify the world’s languages, including many lesser-known and endangered ones.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISO 639-3 canonical | 72 |
| ISO 639-3 standard | 7 |
| ISO 639-3:2007 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9606484 — 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 639-3 Context triple: [Glottolog, distinguishesFrom, ISO 639-3]
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A.
ISO 639
ISO 639 is an international standard that defines codes for the representation of names of languages.
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B.
ISO 639-3 Registration Authority
The ISO 639-3 Registration Authority is the organization responsible for maintaining and updating the ISO 639-3 standard, which assigns three-letter codes to the world’s languages.
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C.
ISO 3166-3
ISO 3166-3 is the part of the ISO 3166 standard that defines codes for countries and territories that have been removed from the current ISO 3166-1 list, providing their former country codes and their replacements.
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D.
ISO 15924
ISO 15924 is an international standard that assigns four-letter codes to the world’s writing systems and scripts for use in information processing and interchange.
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E.
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.
- 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 639-3 Target entity description: ISO 639-3 is an international standard that assigns three-letter codes to uniquely identify the world’s languages, including many lesser-known and endangered ones.
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A.
ISO 639
ISO 639 is an international standard that defines codes for the representation of names of languages.
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B.
ISO 639-3 Registration Authority
The ISO 639-3 Registration Authority is the organization responsible for maintaining and updating the ISO 639-3 standard, which assigns three-letter codes to the world’s languages.
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C.
ISO 3166-3
ISO 3166-3 is the part of the ISO 3166 standard that defines codes for countries and territories that have been removed from the current ISO 3166-1 list, providing their former country codes and their replacements.
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D.
ISO 15924
ISO 15924 is an international standard that assigns four-letter codes to the world’s writing systems and scripts for use in information processing and interchange.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international standard
ⓘ
language code standard ⓘ |
| basedOn |
ISO 639-2
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 639
|
| changeRequestFrequency | annual ⓘ |
| codeLength | 3 letters ⓘ |
| codeType | three-letter language code ⓘ |
| covers |
ancient languages
ⓘ
constructed languages ⓘ endangered languages ⓘ extinct languages ⓘ historical languages ⓘ lesser-known languages ⓘ living languages ⓘ |
| distinguishes | closely related languages ⓘ |
| domain | language identification ⓘ |
| extends |
ISO 639-2
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 639
|
| goal | provide comprehensive set of identifiers for all known human languages ⓘ |
| hasChangeRequestProcess | yes ⓘ |
| hasMetadata |
geographic information
ⓘ
language classification ⓘ language names ⓘ |
| identifierFormat | lowercase letters ⓘ |
| includesDialects | no ⓘ |
| includesMacrolanguages | yes ⓘ |
| includesRetiredCodes | yes ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | SIL International ⓘ |
| partOf | ISO 639 ⓘ |
| primaryUnit | language ⓘ |
| provides | unique identifiers for languages ⓘ |
| publishedBy | International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| registrationAuthority | SIL International ⓘ |
| relatedStandard |
ISO 639-1
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 639
ISO 639-4 ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 639
ISO 639-5 ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 639-5 registry
|
| scope |
individual languages
ⓘ
macrolanguages ⓘ special codes ⓘ |
| standardNumber | 639-3 ⓘ |
| status | active ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Bible translation
ⓘ
archival description ⓘ digital libraries ⓘ language documentation ⓘ language technology ⓘ linguistics ⓘ software localization ⓘ |
| usesScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| webResource | https://iso639-3.sil.org ⓘ |
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 639-3 Description of subject: ISO 639-3 is an international standard that assigns three-letter codes to uniquely identify the world’s languages, including many lesser-known and endangered ones.
Referenced by (80)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Swedish Sign Language (historically)
subject linked to:
ssy
linked to: ISO 639-3
linked to: ISO 639-3
linked to: ISO 639-3
linked to: ISO 639-3
subject linked to:
gaa