Samoan tālā
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The Samoan tālā is the official monetary unit of Samoa, used for everyday transactions and financial activities throughout the country.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samoan tālā canonical | 13 |
| Samoan tālā (WST) | 2 |
| Samoan tala | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1295324 — 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: Samoan tālā Context triple: [Samoa, currency, Samoan tālā]
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A.
Tuvaluan dollar
The Tuvaluan dollar is the national currency of Tuvalu, used alongside the Australian dollar and issued in distinctive local coinage.
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B.
Fijian dollar
The Fijian dollar is the official monetary unit of Fiji, used for everyday transactions and issued by the Reserve Bank of Fiji.
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C.
Solomon Islands dollar
The Solomon Islands dollar is the official currency of the Solomon Islands, used throughout the country for everyday transactions and issued by the Central Bank of Solomon Islands.
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D.
New Zealand dollar
The New Zealand dollar is the official monetary unit of New Zealand and several Pacific territories, commonly traded on global foreign exchange markets under the code NZD.
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E.
Brunei dollar
The Brunei dollar is the official currency of Brunei Darussalam, issued by the Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam and maintained at parity with the Singapore dollar under a longstanding currency interchangeability agreement.
- 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: Samoan tālā Target entity description: The Samoan tālā is the official monetary unit of Samoa, used for everyday transactions and financial activities throughout the country.
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A.
Tuvaluan dollar
The Tuvaluan dollar is the national currency of Tuvalu, used alongside the Australian dollar and issued in distinctive local coinage.
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B.
Fijian dollar
The Fijian dollar is the official monetary unit of Fiji, used for everyday transactions and issued by the Reserve Bank of Fiji.
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C.
Solomon Islands dollar
The Solomon Islands dollar is the official currency of the Solomon Islands, used throughout the country for everyday transactions and issued by the Central Bank of Solomon Islands.
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D.
New Zealand dollar
The New Zealand dollar is the official monetary unit of New Zealand and several Pacific territories, commonly traded on global foreign exchange markets under the code NZD.
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E.
Brunei dollar
The Brunei dollar is the official currency of Brunei Darussalam, issued by the Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam and maintained at parity with the Singapore dollar under a longstanding currency interchangeability agreement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
currency
ⓘ
fiat currency ⓘ |
| banknoteDenomination |
10 tālā
ⓘ
100 tālā ⓘ 2 tālā ⓘ 20 tālā ⓘ 5 tālā ⓘ 50 tālā ⓘ |
| centralBank | Central Bank of Samoa ⓘ |
| circulatesIn |
independent state of Samoa
ⓘ
linked to:
Samoa
|
| coinDenomination |
1 tālā
ⓘ
10 sene ⓘ 2 tālā ⓘ 20 sene ⓘ 5 tālā ⓘ 50 sene ⓘ |
| country | Samoa ⓘ |
| denominationType |
banknotes
ⓘ
coins ⓘ |
| hasPluralForm | tālā ⓘ |
| hasSubunitPluralForm | sene ⓘ |
| introduced | 1967 ⓘ |
| ISO4217Code | WST ⓘ |
| languageOnCurrency |
English
ⓘ
Samoan ⓘ |
| legalStatus | legal tender ⓘ |
| legalTenderIn | Samoa ⓘ |
| monetaryAuthority | Government of Samoa ⓘ |
| monetaryPolicyManagedBy | Central Bank of Samoa ⓘ |
| officialCurrencyOf | Samoa ⓘ |
| region | Oceania ⓘ |
| replacedCurrency | Samoan pound ⓘ |
| replacedCurrencyAtRate | 2 tālā = 1 pound ⓘ |
| status | active ⓘ |
| subunit | sene ⓘ |
| subunitToUnit | 100 sene = 1 tālā ⓘ |
| symbol | WS$ ⓘ |
| usedFor |
everyday transactions
ⓘ
financial activities ⓘ |
| usedIn |
domestic trade in Samoa
ⓘ
private sector payments in Samoa ⓘ public sector payments in Samoa ⓘ |
| usedSince | 1967 ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
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: Samoan tālā Description of subject: The Samoan tālā is the official monetary unit of Samoa, used for everyday transactions and financial activities throughout the country.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.