Portuguese escudo
E145229
The Portuguese escudo was Portugal’s former national currency, used from 1911 until the adoption of the euro in 1999/2002.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Portuguese escudo canonical | 19 |
| Portuguese Indian escudo | 1 |
| escudo of Portuguese India | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1263925 — 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: Portuguese escudo Context triple: [Euro, replacedCurrency, Portuguese escudo]
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A.
Gulden
The Gulden was a historical European gold-based coin and monetary unit used in various German states, including Hesse-Kassel, before the adoption of more modern currencies.
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B.
Aragonese florin
The Aragonese florin was a medieval gold coin used in the Crown of Aragon, modeled on the Florentine florin and important in Mediterranean trade.
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C.
Tuscan florin
The Tuscan florin was a historical gold coin used in Tuscany, influential in medieval European trade and finance.
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D.
Spanish dollar
The Spanish dollar was a widely circulated silver coin that became a de facto global currency from the 16th to 19th centuries, heavily used in international trade across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
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E.
Dutch guilder
The Dutch guilder was the former national currency of the Netherlands, used for centuries until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.
- 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: Portuguese escudo Target entity description: The Portuguese escudo was Portugal’s former national currency, used from 1911 until the adoption of the euro in 1999/2002.
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A.
Gulden
The Gulden was a historical European gold-based coin and monetary unit used in various German states, including Hesse-Kassel, before the adoption of more modern currencies.
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B.
Aragonese florin
The Aragonese florin was a medieval gold coin used in the Crown of Aragon, modeled on the Florentine florin and important in Mediterranean trade.
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C.
Tuscan florin
The Tuscan florin was a historical gold coin used in Tuscany, influential in medieval European trade and finance.
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D.
Spanish dollar
The Spanish dollar was a widely circulated silver coin that became a de facto global currency from the 16th to 19th centuries, heavily used in international trade across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
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E.
Dutch guilder
The Dutch guilder was the former national currency of the Netherlands, used for centuries until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Portuguese escudo Description of subject: The Portuguese escudo was Portugal’s former national currency, used from 1911 until the adoption of the euro in 1999/2002.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Portuguese escudo
subject linked to:
euro (indirectly, via later French franc)
linked to: Portuguese escudo
subject linked to:
real
subject linked to:
real
subject linked to:
real