Nigerian pound
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The Nigerian pound was the former official currency of Nigeria used before the country adopted the naira in the early 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nigerian pound canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10856423 — 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: Nigerian pound Context triple: [First Republic of Nigeria, currency, Nigerian pound]
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A.
Nigerian naira
The Nigerian naira is the official fiat currency of Nigeria, issued and regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
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B.
Ghanaian cedi
The Ghanaian cedi is the official national currency of Ghana, used for everyday transactions and monetary policy in the country.
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C.
South Sudanese pound
The South Sudanese pound is the official legal tender of South Sudan, introduced after the country’s independence to replace the Sudanese pound.
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D.
Sudanese pound
The Sudanese pound is the official monetary unit of Sudan, used for everyday transactions and economic activities within the country.
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E.
British West African pound
The British West African pound was a colonial currency used in several British territories in West Africa, pegged to the British pound sterling and issued in the first half of the 20th century.
- 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: Nigerian pound Target entity description: The Nigerian pound was the former official currency of Nigeria used before the country adopted the naira in the early 1970s.
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A.
Nigerian naira
The Nigerian naira is the official fiat currency of Nigeria, issued and regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
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B.
Ghanaian cedi
The Ghanaian cedi is the official national currency of Ghana, used for everyday transactions and monetary policy in the country.
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C.
South Sudanese pound
The South Sudanese pound is the official legal tender of South Sudan, introduced after the country’s independence to replace the Sudanese pound.
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D.
Sudanese pound
The Sudanese pound is the official monetary unit of Sudan, used for everyday transactions and economic activities within the country.
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E.
British West African pound
The British West African pound was a colonial currency used in several British territories in West Africa, pegged to the British pound sterling and issued in the first half of the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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: Nigerian pound Description of subject: The Nigerian pound was the former official currency of Nigeria used before the country adopted the naira in the early 1970s.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.