ouguiya
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The ouguiya is the official monetary unit of Mauritania, subdivided into khoums.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ouguiya canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3237384 — 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: ouguiya Context triple: [MRU, currencyName, ouguiya]
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A.
Oghi
Oghi is a town in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, known as a local administrative and commercial center within the Hazara region.
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B.
Osagyefo
Osagyefo is the honorific title meaning "The Redeemer" commonly used to refer to Ghana’s first president and independence leader, Kwame Nkrumah.
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C.
Anogi
Anogi is a small traditional mountain village on the Greek island of Ithaca, known for its historic church, stone houses, and panoramic views.
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D.
Oshiage
Oshiage is a district in Sumida, Tokyo, best known as the location of the Tokyo Skytree and its surrounding commercial complex.
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E.
Oy
Oy is a loyal, intelligent billy-bumbler companion to Roland Deschain’s ka-tet in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series.
- 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: ouguiya Target entity description: The ouguiya is the official monetary unit of Mauritania, subdivided into khoums.
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A.
Oghi
Oghi is a town in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, known as a local administrative and commercial center within the Hazara region.
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B.
Osagyefo
Osagyefo is the honorific title meaning "The Redeemer" commonly used to refer to Ghana’s first president and independence leader, Kwame Nkrumah.
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C.
Anogi
Anogi is a small traditional mountain village on the Greek island of Ithaca, known for its historic church, stone houses, and panoramic views.
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D.
Oshiage
Oshiage is a district in Sumida, Tokyo, best known as the location of the Tokyo Skytree and its surrounding commercial complex.
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E.
Oy
Oy is a loyal, intelligent billy-bumbler companion to Roland Deschain’s ka-tet in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
central bank
ⓘ
currency ⓘ currency subunit ⓘ monetary unit ⓘ |
| centralBank | Central Bank of Mauritania ⓘ |
| country | Mauritania ⓘ |
| denominationType |
banknotes
ⓘ
coins ⓘ |
| introduced | 1973 ⓘ |
| ISO4217Code | MRU ⓘ |
| isSubunitOf | ouguiya ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Arabic ⓘ |
| legalTenderIn | Mauritania ⓘ |
| nonDecimalSubunit | khoums ⓘ |
| officialCurrencyOf | Mauritania ⓘ |
| region | Africa ⓘ |
| replacedCurrency | CFA franc ⓘ |
| revaluation | 2018 ⓘ |
| revaluationRatio | 10 old ouguiya = 1 new ouguiya ⓘ |
| status | active currency ⓘ |
| subunit | khoums ⓘ |
| symbol | UM ⓘ |
| usedBy |
businesses in Mauritania
ⓘ
government of Mauritania ⓘ residents of Mauritania ⓘ |
| usedFor |
accounting
ⓘ
cash transactions ⓘ pricing of goods and services ⓘ |
| usesDecimalSubunit | no ⓘ |
| writingSystemOfName | Arabic script ⓘ |
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: ouguiya Description of subject: The ouguiya is the official monetary unit of Mauritania, subdivided into khoums.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
ouguiya