Dirham
E44515
The dirham is a historical silver coin and monetary unit widely used in the Islamic world, originating as a standard currency under early Muslim caliphates.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dirham canonical | 3 |
| dirham | 2 |
| Islamic dirham | 1 |
| Libyan dirham (subunit) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T341466 — 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: Dirham Context triple: [Umayyad Caliphate, currency, Dirham]
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A.
Tunisian dinar
The Tunisian dinar is the official monetary unit of Tunisia, subdivided into 1,000 millimes and used for all domestic financial transactions.
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B.
Algerian dinar
The Algerian dinar is the official monetary unit of Algeria, issued and regulated by the Bank of Algeria.
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C.
Jordanian dinar
The Jordanian dinar is the official currency of Jordan and one of the region’s more stable and widely used Middle Eastern currencies.
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D.
Libyan dinar
The Libyan dinar is the official monetary unit of Libya, used for everyday transactions and economic activities throughout the country.
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E.
Iraqi dinar
The Iraqi dinar is the official fiat currency of Iraq, issued by the Central Bank of Iraq and subdivided into 1,000 fils.
- 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: Dirham Target entity description: The dirham is a historical silver coin and monetary unit widely used in the Islamic world, originating as a standard currency under early Muslim caliphates.
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A.
Tunisian dinar
The Tunisian dinar is the official monetary unit of Tunisia, subdivided into 1,000 millimes and used for all domestic financial transactions.
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B.
Algerian dinar
The Algerian dinar is the official monetary unit of Algeria, issued and regulated by the Bank of Algeria.
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C.
Jordanian dinar
The Jordanian dinar is the official currency of Jordan and one of the region’s more stable and widely used Middle Eastern currencies.
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D.
Libyan dinar
The Libyan dinar is the official monetary unit of Libya, used for everyday transactions and economic activities throughout the country.
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E.
Iraqi dinar
The Iraqi dinar is the official fiat currency of Iraq, issued by the Central Bank of Iraq and subdivided into 1,000 fils.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical currency
ⓘ
monetary unit ⓘ silver coin ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Islamic expansion
ⓘ
Silk Road trade ⓘ |
| category | pre-modern currency ⓘ |
| circulatedIn |
Al-Andalus
ⓘ
linked to:
Andalusia
Central Asia ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North Africa ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Dinar
ⓘ
Fals ⓘ |
| denominationOf | Islamic coinage ⓘ |
| etymologyFrom | Greek drachma ⓘ |
| foundIn |
archaeological hoards in Europe
ⓘ
archaeological hoards in Russia ⓘ archaeological hoards in Scandinavia ⓘ |
| hasModernNamesake |
Libyan dirham (subunit)
ⓘ
linked to:
Dirham
Moroccan dirham ⓘ Qatari riyal dirham subunit ⓘ United Arab Emirates dirham ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
early Islamic period
ⓘ
medieval period ⓘ |
| influenced | medieval European coinage through trade ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Sassanian drahm ⓘ |
| linguisticVariant |
derham
ⓘ
dirhem ⓘ |
| material | silver ⓘ |
| monetarySystemComponentOf | early Islamic bimetallic system ⓘ |
| numismaticCategory | Islamic silver coinage ⓘ |
| originatedAs | standard currency under early Muslim caliphates ⓘ |
| religiousInscription | Islamic declarations of faith ⓘ |
| religiousInscriptionLanguage | Arabic ⓘ |
| scriptUsedOnCoins | Arabic script ⓘ |
| standardizedUnder |
Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
ⓘ
linked to:
Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
|
| standardMetal | silver ⓘ |
| usedAs |
medium of exchange
ⓘ
store of value ⓘ unit of account ⓘ |
| usedDuring |
Abbasid Caliphate
ⓘ
Umayyad Caliphate ⓘ |
| usedFor |
everyday transactions
ⓘ
tax payments ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| usedIn | Islamic world ⓘ |
| valueRelativeTo | gold dinar ⓘ |
| weightStandardInfluencedBy |
Byzantine weight system
ⓘ
Sassanian weight system ⓘ |
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: Dirham Description of subject: The dirham is a historical silver coin and monetary unit widely used in the Islamic world, originating as a standard currency under early Muslim caliphates.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dirham
linked to: Dirham
linked to: Dirham
linked to: Dirham