Guinean franc
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The Guinean franc is the official national currency of Guinea, used for all monetary transactions within the country.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Guinean franc canonical | 19 |
| Guinean francs | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1925145 — 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: Guinean franc Context triple: [Guinea, hasCurrency, Guinean franc]
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A.
French West African franc
The French West African franc was the colonial currency used across several territories in French West Africa before being replaced by the CFA franc.
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B.
Central African CFA franc
The Central African CFA franc is a regional currency used by several Central African countries, including Gabon, and is guaranteed by the French Treasury.
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C.
West African CFA franc
The West African CFA franc is a regional currency used by several West African countries, issued by the Central Bank of West African States and pegged to the euro.
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D.
Congolese franc
The Congolese franc is the official monetary unit used in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for all financial and commercial transactions.
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E.
Algerian new franc
The Algerian new franc was a short-lived transitional currency used in Algeria during the early post-colonial period before the full adoption of the Algerian dinar.
- 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: Guinean franc Target entity description: The Guinean franc is the official national currency of Guinea, used for all monetary transactions within the country.
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A.
French West African franc
The French West African franc was the colonial currency used across several territories in French West Africa before being replaced by the CFA franc.
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B.
Central African CFA franc
The Central African CFA franc is a regional currency used by several Central African countries, including Gabon, and is guaranteed by the French Treasury.
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C.
West African CFA franc
The West African CFA franc is a regional currency used by several West African countries, issued by the Central Bank of West African States and pegged to the euro.
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D.
Congolese franc
The Congolese franc is the official monetary unit used in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for all financial and commercial transactions.
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E.
Algerian new franc
The Algerian new franc was a short-lived transitional currency used in Algeria during the early post-colonial period before the full adoption of the Algerian dinar.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
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: Guinean franc Description of subject: The Guinean franc is the official national currency of Guinea, used for all monetary transactions within the country.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.