Yemeni rial
E100473
The Yemeni rial is the official monetary unit of Yemen, used for everyday transactions and issued by the Central Bank of Yemen.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yemeni rial canonical | 17 |
| North Yemeni rial | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T842261 — 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: Yemeni rial Context triple: [Yemen, currency, Yemeni rial]
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A.
Saudi riyal
The Saudi riyal is the official monetary unit of Saudi Arabia, used nationwide for all financial transactions and pegged to the US dollar.
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B.
Omani rial
The Omani rial is the official currency of Oman, known for its high value relative to most other world currencies.
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C.
Dirham
The dirham is a historical silver coin and monetary unit widely used in the Islamic world, originating as a standard currency under early Muslim caliphates.
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D.
Bahraini dinar
The Bahraini dinar is the official currency of Bahrain, known for having one of the highest exchange values in the world.
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E.
Aden shilling
The Aden shilling was the official monetary unit used in the British-controlled Colony of Aden in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Yemeni rial Target entity description: The Yemeni rial is the official monetary unit of Yemen, used for everyday transactions and issued by the Central Bank of Yemen.
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A.
Saudi riyal
The Saudi riyal is the official monetary unit of Saudi Arabia, used nationwide for all financial transactions and pegged to the US dollar.
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B.
Omani rial
The Omani rial is the official currency of Oman, known for its high value relative to most other world currencies.
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C.
Dirham
The dirham is a historical silver coin and monetary unit widely used in the Islamic world, originating as a standard currency under early Muslim caliphates.
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D.
Bahraini dinar
The Bahraini dinar is the official currency of Bahrain, known for having one of the highest exchange values in the world.
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E.
Aden shilling
The Aden shilling was the official monetary unit used in the British-controlled Colony of Aden in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
currency
ⓘ
fiat currency ⓘ |
| centralBank | Central Bank of Yemen ⓘ |
| circulation |
bank deposits
ⓘ
physical cash ⓘ |
| coinDenominations |
1 rial
ⓘ
10 rials ⓘ 20 rials ⓘ 5 rials ⓘ 50 rials ⓘ |
| country | Yemen ⓘ |
| dateOfIntroduction | 1990 ⓘ |
| exchangeControlManagedBy | Central Bank of Yemen ⓘ |
| hasFeatureOnBanknotes | images of Yemeni landmarks ⓘ |
| hasInflationRisk | yes ⓘ |
| hasScriptOnBanknotes | Arabic script ⓘ |
| ISO4217Code | YER ⓘ |
| isPegged | no official hard peg (managed float / de facto peg historically to USD) ⓘ |
| issuer | Central Bank of Yemen ⓘ |
| languageOfInscription | Arabic ⓘ |
| legalStatus | legal tender ⓘ |
| legalTenderIn | Yemen ⓘ |
| monetaryAuthority | Central Bank of Yemen ⓘ |
| monetarySystem | decimal ⓘ |
| monetaryUnitOf | Yemeni economy ⓘ |
| monitoredBy | Central Bank of Yemen ⓘ |
| noteDenominations |
100 rials
ⓘ
1000 rials ⓘ 200 rials ⓘ 250 rials ⓘ 50 rials ⓘ 500 rials ⓘ |
| officialCurrencyOf | Yemen ⓘ |
| region | Middle East ⓘ |
| regulates | cash circulation in Yemen ⓘ |
| replacedCurrency |
North Yemeni rial
ⓘ
linked to:
Yemeni rial
South Yemeni dinar ⓘ |
| status | current ⓘ |
| subunit | fils ⓘ |
| subunitToUnit | 100 fils = 1 Yemeni rial ⓘ |
| symbol | ﷼ ⓘ |
| usedFor |
everyday transactions
ⓘ
government budgeting in Yemen ⓘ pricing goods and services in Yemen ⓘ tax payments in Yemen ⓘ |
| usedIn | Yemen ⓘ |
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: Yemeni rial Description of subject: The Yemeni rial is the official monetary unit of Yemen, used for everyday transactions and issued by the Central Bank of Yemen.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yemeni rial
linked to: Yemeni rial
subject linked to:
Lahij Governorate (broad area association)