South Sudanese pound
E222564
The South Sudanese pound is the official legal tender of South Sudan, introduced after the country’s independence to replace the Sudanese pound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| South Sudanese pound canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1974513 — 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: South Sudanese pound Context triple: [South Sudan, currency, South Sudanese pound]
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A.
Sudanese pound
The Sudanese pound is the official monetary unit of Sudan, used for everyday transactions and economic activities within the country.
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B.
Ugandan shilling
The Ugandan shilling is the official monetary unit of Uganda, used for everyday transactions and financial operations throughout the country.
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C.
Namibian dollar
The Namibian dollar is the official national currency of Namibia, pegged at par to the South African rand and used alongside it in everyday transactions.
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D.
Liberian dollar
The Liberian dollar is the official monetary unit of Liberia, used alongside the U.S. dollar in the country’s dual-currency economy.
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E.
Somali shilling
The Somali shilling is the official currency of Somalia, used primarily in domestic cash transactions despite the country’s prolonged political and economic instability.
- 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: South Sudanese pound Target entity description: The South Sudanese pound is the official legal tender of South Sudan, introduced after the country’s independence to replace the Sudanese pound.
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A.
Sudanese pound
The Sudanese pound is the official monetary unit of Sudan, used for everyday transactions and economic activities within the country.
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B.
Ugandan shilling
The Ugandan shilling is the official monetary unit of Uganda, used for everyday transactions and financial operations throughout the country.
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C.
Namibian dollar
The Namibian dollar is the official national currency of Namibia, pegged at par to the South African rand and used alongside it in everyday transactions.
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D.
Liberian dollar
The Liberian dollar is the official monetary unit of Liberia, used alongside the U.S. dollar in the country’s dual-currency economy.
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E.
Somali shilling
The Somali shilling is the official currency of Somalia, used primarily in domestic cash transactions despite the country’s prolonged political and economic instability.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
currency
ⓘ
legal tender ⓘ |
| centralBank | Bank of South Sudan ⓘ |
| circulationStatus | in circulation ⓘ |
| country | South Sudan ⓘ |
| dateOfIndependenceOfCountry | 2011-07-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfIntroduction | 2011 ⓘ |
| denominationType |
banknotes
ⓘ
coins ⓘ |
| hasDenomination |
1 South Sudanese pound banknote
ⓘ
1 piastre coin ⓘ 10 South Sudanese pounds banknote ⓘ 10 piastres coin ⓘ 100 South Sudanese pounds banknote ⓘ 25 South Sudanese pounds banknote ⓘ 25 piastres coin ⓘ 5 South Sudanese pounds banknote ⓘ 5 piastres coin ⓘ 50 South Sudanese pounds banknote ⓘ 50 piastres coin ⓘ |
| hasSecurityFeatures |
microprinting
ⓘ
security threads ⓘ watermarks ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystemOnNotes |
Arabic
ⓘ
English ⓘ local languages (limited) ⓘ |
| introducedAfterEvent | Independence of South Sudan ⓘ |
| isFiatCurrency | true ⓘ |
| iso4217Code | SSP ⓘ |
| issuingAuthority | Bank of South Sudan ⓘ |
| legalTenderIn | South Sudan ⓘ |
| monetaryAuthorityJurisdiction |
Republic of South Sudan
ⓘ
linked to:
South Sudan
|
| monetaryUnit | pound ⓘ |
| namedAfter | pound (unit of currency) ⓘ |
| officialCurrencyOf | South Sudan ⓘ |
| region | East Africa ⓘ |
| replacedCurrency | Sudanese pound ⓘ |
| replacedInTerritory | Sudanese pound in South Sudan ⓘ |
| status | active ⓘ |
| subunit | piastre ⓘ |
| subunitName | piastre ⓘ |
| subunitToUnit | 100 piastres ⓘ |
| symbol |
SSP
ⓘ
£ ⓘ |
| usedFor |
accounting
ⓘ
cash transactions ⓘ non-cash payments ⓘ pricing of goods and services ⓘ |
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: South Sudanese pound Description of subject: The South Sudanese pound is the official legal tender of South Sudan, introduced after the country’s independence to replace the Sudanese pound.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.