Hong Kong dollar
E9004
The Hong Kong dollar is the official currency of Hong Kong, known for its long-standing peg to the US dollar and its central role in the region’s status as a major international financial hub.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hong Kong dollar canonical | 63 |
| HKD | 4 |
| Hong Kong dollar (HKD) | 1 |
| Hong Kong yuan (Cantonese pronunciation of 港元) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T59717 — 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: Hong Kong dollar Context triple: [Asian financial crisis of 1997–1998, involvesCurrency, Hong Kong dollar]
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A.
Malaysian ringgit
The Malaysian ringgit is the official currency of Malaysia, known for having been heavily affected by and subsequently managed through capital controls during the Asian financial crisis of 1997–1998.
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B.
Bermudian dollar
The Bermudian dollar is the official currency of Bermuda, pegged at par with the U.S. dollar and commonly used interchangeably with it on the islands.
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C.
Pound sterling
The pound sterling is the official currency of the United Kingdom and one of the world’s oldest continuously used monetary units.
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D.
Australian dollar
The Australian dollar is the official national currency of Australia, used across all its states and territories and recognized as a major traded currency globally.
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E.
Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong, China is a major global financial and trading hub and a Special Administrative Region of China located on the southern coast of the country.
- 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: Hong Kong dollar Target entity description: The Hong Kong dollar is the official currency of Hong Kong, known for its long-standing peg to the US dollar and its central role in the region’s status as a major international financial hub.
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A.
Malaysian ringgit
The Malaysian ringgit is the official currency of Malaysia, known for having been heavily affected by and subsequently managed through capital controls during the Asian financial crisis of 1997–1998.
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B.
Bermudian dollar
The Bermudian dollar is the official currency of Bermuda, pegged at par with the U.S. dollar and commonly used interchangeably with it on the islands.
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C.
Pound sterling
The pound sterling is the official currency of the United Kingdom and one of the world’s oldest continuously used monetary units.
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D.
Australian dollar
The Australian dollar is the official national currency of Australia, used across all its states and territories and recognized as a major traded currency globally.
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E.
Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong, China is a major global financial and trading hub and a Special Administrative Region of China located on the southern coast of the country.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
currency
ⓘ
fiat currency ⓘ |
| banknoteIssuers |
Bank of China (Hong Kong)
ⓘ
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation ⓘ Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) ⓘ |
| centralBankLikeInstitution | Hong Kong Monetary Authority ⓘ |
| codeNumber | 344 (ISO numeric code) ⓘ |
| coinIssuer | Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ⓘ |
| country |
Hong Kong
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
|
| denominations |
banknotes in dollars
ⓘ
coins in cents and dollars ⓘ |
| exchangeRateSystem | linked exchange rate system ⓘ |
| freelyConvertible | yes, under Hong Kong’s open capital account ⓘ |
| governingLaw | Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ⓘ |
| historicalPeg |
pegged to US dollar since 1983
ⓘ
pegged to pound sterling (historically) ⓘ |
| introduced | 1863 ⓘ |
| ISO4217Code |
HKD
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong dollar
|
| legalStatus | legal tender in Hong Kong ⓘ |
| legalTender |
Hong Kong
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
|
| localName |
Hong Kong yuan (Cantonese pronunciation of 港元)
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong dollar
港元 ⓘ |
| monetaryAuthority | Hong Kong Monetary Authority ⓘ |
| monetaryPolicyObjective | exchange rate stability against US dollar ⓘ |
| monetaryRegion |
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
|
| monetarySystem | currency board arrangement ⓘ |
| officialCurrencyOf |
Hong Kong
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
|
| peggedTo |
United States dollar
ⓘ
linked to:
US dollar
|
| rankByFXTurnover | one of the most traded currencies globally ⓘ |
| region | Asia ⓘ |
| regionRole | major international financial hub currency ⓘ |
| relatedCurrency |
Chinese yuan
ⓘ
Macanese pataca ⓘ |
| replaced |
Mexican dollar (gradually)
ⓘ
Spanish dollar (gradually) ⓘ
linked to:
Spanish dollar
|
| subunit | cent ⓘ |
| subunitToUnit | 100 cents = 1 Hong Kong dollar ⓘ |
| symbol | HK$ ⓘ |
| typicalPegRange | HK$7.75–7.85 per US$1 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
foreign exchange trading
ⓘ
offshore financing ⓘ trade settlement in Asia ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Hong Kong
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
Macau (alongside Macanese pataca) ⓘ Mainland China border regions (informally) ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Chinese characters and Latin alphabet on notes ⓘ |
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: Hong Kong dollar Description of subject: The Hong Kong dollar is the official currency of Hong Kong, known for its long-standing peg to the US dollar and its central role in the region’s status as a major international financial hub.
Referenced by (69)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hong Kong, China
linked to: Hong Kong dollar
linked to: Hong Kong dollar
linked to: Hong Kong dollar
subject linked to:
0700.HK
subject linked to:
BABA
linked to: Hong Kong dollar