Iranian rial
E21294
The Iranian rial is the official national currency of Iran, known for its high inflation and low international exchange value.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iranian rial canonical | 67 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T171784 — 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: Iranian rial Context triple: [Iran, currency, Iranian rial]
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A.
Tunisian dinar
The Tunisian dinar is the official monetary unit of Tunisia, subdivided into 1,000 millimes and used for all domestic financial transactions.
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B.
United Arab Emirates dirham
The United Arab Emirates dirham is the official currency of the United Arab Emirates, widely used in trade, tourism, and financial transactions across the country.
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C.
Ottoman lira
The Ottoman lira was the principal monetary unit of the late Ottoman Empire, used from the mid-19th century until the empire’s dissolution in the early 20th century.
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D.
Kazakhstani tenge
The Kazakhstani tenge is the official currency of Kazakhstan, introduced after the country gained independence from the Soviet Union.
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E.
Indonesian rupiah
The Indonesian rupiah is the official currency of Indonesia, known for experiencing severe devaluation during the late-1990s Asian financial crisis.
- 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: Iranian rial Target entity description: The Iranian rial is the official national currency of Iran, known for its high inflation and low international exchange value.
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A.
Tunisian dinar
The Tunisian dinar is the official monetary unit of Tunisia, subdivided into 1,000 millimes and used for all domestic financial transactions.
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B.
United Arab Emirates dirham
The United Arab Emirates dirham is the official currency of the United Arab Emirates, widely used in trade, tourism, and financial transactions across the country.
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C.
Ottoman lira
The Ottoman lira was the principal monetary unit of the late Ottoman Empire, used from the mid-19th century until the empire’s dissolution in the early 20th century.
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D.
Kazakhstani tenge
The Kazakhstani tenge is the official currency of Kazakhstan, introduced after the country gained independence from the Soviet Union.
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E.
Indonesian rupiah
The Indonesian rupiah is the official currency of Indonesia, known for experiencing severe devaluation during the late-1990s Asian financial crisis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fiat currency
ⓘ
national currency ⓘ |
| centralBank |
Bank Markazi Iran
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Bank of Iran
Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran ⓘ
linked to:
Central Bank of Iran
|
| country | Iran ⓘ |
| denominationType |
banknotes
ⓘ
coins ⓘ |
| exchangeRateCharacteristic | low international exchange value ⓘ |
| fractionalUnit | 1 rial = 100 dinar ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic | multiple exchange rates (official and market) ⓘ |
| hasDenomination |
1000 rial banknote
ⓘ
10000 rial banknote ⓘ 100000 rial banknote ⓘ 1000000 rial cheque ⓘ 2000 rial banknote ⓘ 20000 rial banknote ⓘ 5000 rial banknote ⓘ 50000 rial banknote ⓘ 500000 rial cheque ⓘ |
| inflationCharacteristic | high inflation ⓘ |
| introduced | 1932 ⓘ |
| isAffectedBy | international sanctions on Iran ⓘ |
| isNotWidelyUsedFor | international trade ⓘ |
| ISO4217Code | IRR ⓘ |
| isPeggedTo | none ⓘ |
| isSubjectTo | currency sanctions ⓘ |
| isUsedFor | domestic transactions in Iran ⓘ |
| languageOfInscription |
Persian
ⓘ
linked to:
Persian language
|
| legalTenderIn | Iran ⓘ |
| monetaryPolicyAuthority | Central Bank of Iran ⓘ |
| monetarySystem | decimal ⓘ |
| officialCurrencyOf | Iran ⓘ |
| predecessorCurrency | Iranian toman ⓘ |
| region | Middle East ⓘ |
| regulatesInflation | Central Bank of Iran ⓘ |
| replaced | Iranian toman ⓘ |
| scriptOfInscription | Persian script ⓘ |
| subunit | dinar ⓘ |
| symbol |
ریال
ⓘ
﷼ ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Islamic Republic of Iran
ⓘ
linked to:
Iran
|
| usedInformallyAlongside | Iranian toman ⓘ |
| valuationIssue | severe devaluation ⓘ |
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: Iranian rial Description of subject: The Iranian rial is the official national currency of Iran, known for its high inflation and low international exchange value.
Referenced by (67)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.