Spanish peseta
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The Spanish peseta was Spain’s former national currency, used from the 19th century until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spanish peseta canonical | 22 |
| peseta española | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T560043 — 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: Spanish peseta Context triple: [Spanish Sahara, currency, Spanish peseta]
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A.
Spanish dollar
The Spanish dollar was a widely circulated silver coin that became a de facto global currency from the 16th to 19th centuries, heavily used in international trade across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
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B.
Aragonese florin
The Aragonese florin was a medieval gold coin used in the Crown of Aragon, modeled on the Florentine florin and important in Mediterranean trade.
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C.
Mexican peso
The Mexican peso is Mexico's official national currency and one of the most traded currencies in the world, widely used in international foreign exchange markets.
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D.
EUR
EUR is the commonly used abbreviation for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs within the U.S. Department of State, which oversees American foreign policy and diplomatic relations in Europe and Eurasia.
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E.
EURO
EURO is the commonly used abbreviation for the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe, which oversees public health initiatives across the European region.
- 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: Spanish peseta Target entity description: The Spanish peseta was Spain’s former national currency, used from the 19th century until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.
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A.
Spanish dollar
The Spanish dollar was a widely circulated silver coin that became a de facto global currency from the 16th to 19th centuries, heavily used in international trade across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
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B.
Aragonese florin
The Aragonese florin was a medieval gold coin used in the Crown of Aragon, modeled on the Florentine florin and important in Mediterranean trade.
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C.
Mexican peso
The Mexican peso is Mexico's official national currency and one of the most traded currencies in the world, widely used in international foreign exchange markets.
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D.
EUR
EUR is the commonly used abbreviation for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs within the U.S. Department of State, which oversees American foreign policy and diplomatic relations in Europe and Eurasia.
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E.
EURO
EURO is the commonly used abbreviation for the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe, which oversees public health initiatives across the European region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Spanish peseta Description of subject: The Spanish peseta was Spain’s former national currency, used from the 19th century until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.