Afghan afghani
E54475
The Afghan afghani is the official fiat currency of Afghanistan, issued and regulated by the country's central bank.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Afghan afghani canonical | 48 |
| Afghan afghani as unit of account | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T432585 — 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: Afghan afghani Context triple: [Afghanistan, currency, Afghan afghani]
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A.
Dirham
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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B.
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.
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C.
Iranian rial
The Iranian rial is the official national currency of Iran, known for its high inflation and low international exchange value.
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D.
Algerian dinar
The Algerian dinar is the official monetary unit of Algeria, issued and regulated by the Bank of Algeria.
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E.
Indonesian rupiah
The Indonesian rupiah is the official currency of Indonesia, known for experiencing severe devaluation during the late-1990s Asian financial crisis.
- 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: Afghan afghani Target entity description: The Afghan afghani is the official fiat currency of Afghanistan, issued and regulated by the country's central bank.
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A.
Dirham
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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B.
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.
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C.
Iranian rial
The Iranian rial is the official national currency of Iran, known for its high inflation and low international exchange value.
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D.
Algerian dinar
The Algerian dinar is the official monetary unit of Algeria, issued and regulated by the Bank of Algeria.
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E.
Indonesian rupiah
The Indonesian rupiah is the official currency of Indonesia, known for experiencing severe devaluation during the late-1990s Asian financial crisis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Afghan afghani Description of subject: The Afghan afghani is the official fiat currency of Afghanistan, issued and regulated by the country's central bank.
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Afghanistan (regionally, via Baluchistan)
linked to: Afghan afghani
subject linked to:
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (post-2001, former)