riksdaler
E46880
The riksdaler was Sweden’s former national currency used for several centuries before being replaced by the Swedish krona in the late 19th century.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swedish riksdaler | 8 |
| riksdaler canonical | 2 |
| riksdaler (Sweden) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T370378 — 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: riksdaler Context triple: [Swedish krona, replacedCurrency, riksdaler]
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A.
Norwegian krone
The Norwegian krone is the official monetary unit of Norway, issued by Norges Bank and commonly traded under the currency code NOK.
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B.
Swedish krona
The Swedish krona is the official currency of Sweden, used for everyday transactions and major national and international payments.
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C.
Danish krone
The Danish krone is the official currency of Denmark, known for its stable value and close peg to the euro.
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D.
Dutch rijksdaalder
The Dutch rijksdaalder was a historical silver coin of the Netherlands that circulated for centuries as a major unit of currency before being replaced by the guilder.
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E.
Dutch guilder
The Dutch guilder was the former national currency of the Netherlands, used for centuries until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.
- 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: riksdaler Target entity description: The riksdaler was Sweden’s former national currency used for several centuries before being replaced by the Swedish krona in the late 19th century.
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A.
Norwegian krone
The Norwegian krone is the official monetary unit of Norway, issued by Norges Bank and commonly traded under the currency code NOK.
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B.
Swedish krona
The Swedish krona is the official currency of Sweden, used for everyday transactions and major national and international payments.
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C.
Danish krone
The Danish krone is the official currency of Denmark, known for its stable value and close peg to the euro.
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D.
Dutch rijksdaalder
The Dutch rijksdaalder was a historical silver coin of the Netherlands that circulated for centuries as a major unit of currency before being replaced by the guilder.
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E.
Dutch guilder
The Dutch guilder was the former national currency of the Netherlands, used for centuries until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former national currency of Sweden
ⓘ
historical currency ⓘ |
| country | Sweden ⓘ |
| currencyOf | Sweden ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeSpelling | riksdaler riksmynt ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfName | Swedish ⓘ |
| hasPluralForm | riksdaler ⓘ |
| hasSuccessorCurrency | Swedish krona ⓘ |
| monetarySystem | silver standard ⓘ |
| namedAfter | thaler ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
Swedish krona
ⓘ
krona ⓘ |
| replacedInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| replacedInYear | 1873 ⓘ |
| subdividedInto | öre ⓘ |
| usedDuringPoliticalEntity |
Kingdom of Sweden
ⓘ
Swedish Empire ⓘ |
| usedFor | several centuries ⓘ |
| usedIn | Sweden ⓘ |
| usedIn16thCentury | true ⓘ |
| usedIn17thCentury | true ⓘ |
| usedIn18thCentury | true ⓘ |
| usedIn19thCentury | true ⓘ |
| usedInRegion | Scandinavia ⓘ |
| wasLegalTender | true ⓘ |
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: riksdaler Description of subject: The riksdaler was Sweden’s former national currency used for several centuries before being replaced by the Swedish krona in the late 19th century.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: riksdaler
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