CL
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CL is the ticker symbol for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CL canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3521784 — 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: CL Context triple: [WTI crude oil futures, primaryContractSymbol, CL]
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A.
CL
CL is the common abbreviation for Japan’s professional baseball Central League.
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B.
CLE
CLE is the standard abbreviation used for the Cleveland Monsters, a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League.
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C.
LC
LC is the second-generation Holden Torana series produced in the late 1960s and early 1970s, notable for introducing six-cylinder performance variants in the compact Australian car lineup.
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D.
LC
LC is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Saint Lucia.
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E.
SL
The Mercedes-Benz SL is a long-running line of luxury grand touring roadsters renowned for combining high performance with elegant design and advanced technology.
- 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: CL Target entity description: CL is the ticker symbol for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX).
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A.
CL
CL is the common abbreviation for Japan’s professional baseball Central League.
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B.
CLE
CLE is the standard abbreviation used for the Cleveland Monsters, a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League.
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C.
LC
LC is the second-generation Holden Torana series produced in the late 1960s and early 1970s, notable for introducing six-cylinder performance variants in the compact Australian car lineup.
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D.
LC
LC is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Saint Lucia.
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E.
SL
The Mercedes-Benz SL is a long-running line of luxury grand touring roadsters renowned for combining high performance with elegant design and advanced technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crude oil futures symbol
ⓘ
futures contract ticker symbol ⓘ |
| assetClass |
crude oil
ⓘ
energy commodity ⓘ |
| benchmarkFor |
US crude oil prices
ⓘ
global crude oil pricing ⓘ |
| category | benchmark crude oil futures ⓘ |
| clearingHouse | CME Clearing ⓘ |
| contractCodeFormat | CL + month code + year digits ⓘ |
| contractSize | 1000 barrels of crude oil ⓘ |
| contractUnit | 1000 barrels ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| currency |
USD
ⓘ
linked to:
US dollar
|
| deliveryLocation | Cushing, Oklahoma ⓘ |
| deliveryPointType | pipeline delivery point ⓘ |
| electronicPlatform |
CME Globex
ⓘ
linked to:
CME Globex electronic trading platform
|
| exampleContractCode |
CLF5
ⓘ
CLZ4 ⓘ |
| exchange |
NYMEX
ⓘ
linked to:
New York Mercantile Exchange
New York Mercantile Exchange ⓘ |
| gradeSpecification | WTI light sweet crude oil ⓘ |
| introducedBy | New York Mercantile Exchange ⓘ |
| marginRequirementType | performance bond ⓘ |
| market | CME Group ⓘ |
| priceDriver |
OPEC production decisions
ⓘ
US inventory data ⓘ geopolitical events ⓘ global oil supply and demand ⓘ |
| priceLimitMechanism | exchange-defined price limits ⓘ |
| priceQuotation | US dollars per barrel ⓘ |
| refersTo |
West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures
ⓘ
linked to:
WTI crude oil futures
|
| regulator |
CFTC
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Commodity Futures Trading Commission ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
|
| relatedContract |
LO (options on WTI crude oil futures)
ⓘ
QM (E-mini WTI crude oil futures) ⓘ
linked to:
WTI crude oil futures
|
| relatedIndex | WTI crude oil spot price indices ⓘ |
| riskManagementUse | hedging crude oil price risk ⓘ |
| settlementProcedure | physical delivery via pipeline at Cushing ⓘ |
| settlementType | physical delivery ⓘ |
| symbolType | root futures symbol ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Eastern Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Time Zone
|
| tradedAs | energy futures ⓘ |
| tradingHours | nearly 24 hours on electronic platform ⓘ |
| tradingVenueType | futures exchange ⓘ |
| typicalContractMonths | all 12 calendar months ⓘ |
| underlyingAsset | West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light sweet crude oil ⓘ |
| usedBy |
hedgers in the oil industry
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institutional investors ⓘ speculators in energy markets ⓘ |
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: CL Description of subject: CL is the ticker symbol for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.