.ng
E9152
.ng is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Nigeria for use in its internet addresses.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T101573 — 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: .ng Context triple: [Nigeria, internetTLD, .ng]
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A.
NE
NE is the common abbreviation for the New England Revolution, a professional Major League Soccer club based in the Greater Boston area.
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B.
IN
IN is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code representing India in international standards and systems.
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C.
NLS
NLS (oN-Line System) was an early, pioneering computer system that introduced many foundational concepts of modern computing, including the mouse, hypertext, and collaborative editing.
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D.
NAM
NAM is the commonly used acronym for the National Academy of Medicine, a leading U.S. nonprofit institution that provides expert advice on health, medicine, and biomedical science.
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E.
GU
GU is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code assigned to Guam, an unincorporated territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean.
- 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: .ng Target entity description: .ng is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Nigeria for use in its internet addresses.
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A.
NE
NE is the common abbreviation for the New England Revolution, a professional Major League Soccer club based in the Greater Boston area.
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B.
IN
IN is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code representing India in international standards and systems.
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C.
NLS
NLS (oN-Line System) was an early, pioneering computer system that introduced many foundational concepts of modern computing, including the mouse, hypertext, and collaborative editing.
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D.
NAM
NAM is the commonly used acronym for the National Academy of Medicine, a leading U.S. nonprofit institution that provides expert advice on health, medicine, and biomedical science.
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E.
GU
GU is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code assigned to Guam, an unincorporated territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
country code top-level domain
ⓘ
top-level domain ⓘ |
| actualUse |
popular in Nigeria
ⓘ
used by Nigerian businesses ⓘ used by Nigerian government ⓘ used by Nigerian individuals ⓘ |
| assignedBy |
IANA
ⓘ
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ⓘ |
| associatedContinent | Africa ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Nigerian internet infrastructure ⓘ |
| category | country code top-level domain ⓘ |
| ccTLDFor | Nigeria ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| DNSSEC | supported ⓘ |
| exampleSecondLevelDomain |
.biz.ng
ⓘ
.com.ng ⓘ .edu.ng ⓘ .gov.ng ⓘ .i.ng ⓘ .ltd.ng ⓘ .mil.ng ⓘ .mobi.ng ⓘ .name.ng ⓘ .net.ng ⓘ .ngo.ng ⓘ .org.ng ⓘ .sch.ng ⓘ .tv.ng ⓘ |
| geographicRegion | Africa ⓘ |
| governingPolicyBody | Nigeria Internet Registration Association ⓘ |
| ICANNCategory | ccTLD ⓘ |
| intendedUse | entities connected with Nigeria ⓘ |
| introduced | 1995 ⓘ |
| ISO3166Code | NG ⓘ |
| languageOfRegistry | English ⓘ |
| managedFrom | Nigeria ⓘ |
| registry |
NiRA
ⓘ
Nigeria Internet Registration Association ⓘ |
| relatedStandard |
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166-1
RFC 1591 ⓘ |
| secondLevelStructure | registrations at second level and at third level beneath predefined second-level labels ⓘ |
| sponsoredBy |
NiRA
ⓘ
Nigeria Internet Registration Association ⓘ |
| sponsoringOrganizationType | non-profit organization ⓘ |
| status | active ⓘ |
| type | ccTLD ⓘ |
| zoneFileMaintainedBy | IANA ⓘ |
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: .ng Description of subject: .ng is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Nigeria for use in its internet addresses.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: .ng
linked to: .ng
linked to: .ng
linked to: .ng
linked to: .ng
linked to: .ng
linked to: .ng
linked to: .ng
linked to: .ng
linked to: .ng
linked to: .ng
linked to: .ng