abbasi
E222031
The abbasi was a silver coin widely used as a principal monetary unit in Persia during the Safavid dynasty, named after Shah Abbas I.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1991059 — 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: abbasi Context triple: [Safavid Empire, currency, abbasi]
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A.
bin Abdullah
Bin Abdullah is an Arabic patronymic surname indicating descent from someone named Abdullah, commonly used across the Arab world.
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B.
Asad Allah
Asad Allah is an honorific title meaning "Lion of God," famously borne by the early Islamic warrior and companion of the Prophet Muhammad, Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib.
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C.
Abdus
Abdus is a given name most notably borne by Abdus Salam, the Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate.
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D.
Abdullah
Abdullah is a common Arabic male given name, notably borne by King Abdullah II of Jordan.
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E.
Mir Abdullah
Mir Abdullah was the son of the renowned Urdu and Persian poet Mir Taqi Mir, belonging to his literary and familial lineage in 18th-century India.
- 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: abbasi Target entity description: The abbasi was a silver coin widely used as a principal monetary unit in Persia during the Safavid dynasty, named after Shah Abbas I.
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A.
bin Abdullah
Bin Abdullah is an Arabic patronymic surname indicating descent from someone named Abdullah, commonly used across the Arab world.
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B.
Asad Allah
Asad Allah is an honorific title meaning "Lion of God," famously borne by the early Islamic warrior and companion of the Prophet Muhammad, Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib.
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C.
Abdus
Abdus is a given name most notably borne by Abdus Salam, the Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate.
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D.
Abdullah
Abdullah is a common Arabic male given name, notably borne by King Abdullah II of Jordan.
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E.
Mir Abdullah
Mir Abdullah was the son of the renowned Urdu and Persian poet Mir Taqi Mir, belonging to his literary and familial lineage in 18th-century India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical currency
ⓘ
silver coin ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty |
Safavid dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Safavid Empire
|
| associatedWithRuler |
Shah Abbas I of Persia
ⓘ
linked to:
Abbas I
|
| circulationRegion | Iran ⓘ |
| coinType | silver denomination ⓘ |
| countryAtTimeOfUse |
Safavid Iran
ⓘ
linked to:
Safavid Empire
|
| currencyOf | Safavid Empire ⓘ |
| denominationClass | Persian silver coinage ⓘ |
| etymology | derived from the name Abbas ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | early modern period ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | key unit in Safavid Persian economy ⓘ |
| material | silver ⓘ |
| monetaryRole |
medium of exchange
ⓘ
store of value ⓘ unit of account ⓘ |
| monetarySystem | Safavid monetary system ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Shah Abbas I
ⓘ
linked to:
Abbas I
|
| namedForRuler |
Abbas the Great
ⓘ
linked to:
Abbas I
|
| status | obsolete currency ⓘ |
| usedAs | principal monetary unit ⓘ |
| usedDuring |
Safavid dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Safavid Empire
|
| usedIn | Persia ⓘ |
| usedInTrade |
domestic trade in Safavid Iran
ⓘ
regional trade in the Middle East ⓘ |
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: abbasi Description of subject: The abbasi was a silver coin widely used as a principal monetary unit in Persia during the Safavid dynasty, named after Shah Abbas I.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: abbasi