Iranian toman
E116610
The Iranian toman is a former currency unit of Iran that historically served as the country’s primary monetary unit before being succeeded by the rial, and is still commonly used informally in everyday pricing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iranian toman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T986645 — 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: Iranian toman Context triple: [Iranian rial, replaced, Iranian toman]
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A.
Ramin
Ramin is a masculine given name of Persian origin, commonly used in Iran and among Persian-speaking communities.
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B.
Hazaragi
Hazaragi is a variety of Persian primarily spoken by the Hazara people of central Afghanistan and surrounding regions, distinguished by its unique phonology and significant Turkic and Mongolic influences.
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C.
Omid
Omid is a Persian given name commonly used for males, meaning "hope."
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D.
Fedallah
Fedallah is a mysterious, prophetic Parsee harpooner who serves as Captain Ahab’s shadowy confidant in Herman Melville’s novel *Moby-Dick*.
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E.
Amini
Amini is a small inhabited coral island in India’s Lakshadweep archipelago, known for its coconut cultivation, coir products, and traditional craftsmanship.
- 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: Iranian toman Target entity description: The Iranian toman is a former currency unit of Iran that historically served as the country’s primary monetary unit before being succeeded by the rial, and is still commonly used informally in everyday pricing.
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A.
Ramin
Ramin is a masculine given name of Persian origin, commonly used in Iran and among Persian-speaking communities.
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B.
Hazaragi
Hazaragi is a variety of Persian primarily spoken by the Hazara people of central Afghanistan and surrounding regions, distinguished by its unique phonology and significant Turkic and Mongolic influences.
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C.
Omid
Omid is a Persian given name commonly used for males, meaning "hope."
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D.
Fedallah
Fedallah is a mysterious, prophetic Parsee harpooner who serves as Captain Ahab’s shadowy confidant in Herman Melville’s novel *Moby-Dick*.
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E.
Amini
Amini is a small inhabited coral island in India’s Lakshadweep archipelago, known for its coconut cultivation, coir products, and traditional craftsmanship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former currency unit
ⓘ
informal monetary unit ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Iranian everyday economy ⓘ |
| category |
Currencies of Iran
ⓘ
Obsolete currencies ⓘ |
| commonConversion | prices in rials often quoted in tomans by dropping one zero ⓘ |
| confusionRisk | difference between written rials and spoken tomans can cause misunderstanding ⓘ |
| country | Iran ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | deeply embedded in everyday economic language in Iran ⓘ |
| denominationSystem | decimal ⓘ |
| distinctionFrom | Iranian rial as official accounting unit ⓘ |
| etymology | derived from Mongolian word "tümen" meaning ten thousand ⓘ |
| exchangeRateContext | modern exchange rates for Iran usually quoted in rials, not tomans ⓘ |
| hasType | national currency unit ⓘ |
| historicalDenomination | originally represented 10,000 dinars ⓘ |
| historicalRole | primary monetary unit of Iran ⓘ |
| historicalUsage |
used during Qajar dynasty
ⓘ
used during Safavid dynasty ⓘ used during early Pahlavi era ⓘ |
| informalNotation | often omitted in writing while amounts are understood to be in tomans ⓘ |
| ISO4217Status | no ISO 4217 code ⓘ |
| languageContext | Persian language ⓘ |
| legalStatus | not legal tender but tolerated in informal use ⓘ |
| monetaryAuthority | historically issued under Iranian governments ⓘ |
| monetarySystem | part of pre-rial Iranian monetary system ⓘ |
| officialCurrencyOf | none ⓘ |
| precededBy | Iranian dinar ⓘ |
| region | Middle East ⓘ |
| regulatoryStatus | not recognized as official unit by Central Bank of Iran ⓘ |
| relatedConcept | Iranian currency reform discussions ⓘ |
| replacedAsOfficialCurrencyBy | rial in 1932 ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Iranian rial ⓘ |
| script | Persian script ⓘ |
| status |
informally used
ⓘ
no longer official legal tender ⓘ |
| stillReferencedOn | shop price tags (informally, sometimes implicitly) ⓘ |
| subunitRelation | 1 toman = 10 rials (informal usage) ⓘ |
| successorCurrency | Iranian rial ⓘ |
| timePeriodAsPrimaryCurrency | several centuries before 20th century ⓘ |
| typicalUsageContext |
informal contracts and negotiations in Iran
ⓘ
retail trade in Iran ⓘ |
| usedBy | Iranian population ⓘ |
| usedFor |
everyday pricing
ⓘ
informal accounting ⓘ quoting prices in speech ⓘ |
| usedIn | Iran ⓘ |
| valueExpression | large nominal rial amounts often simplified into tomans in speech ⓘ |
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: Iranian toman Description of subject: The Iranian toman is a former currency unit of Iran that historically served as the country’s primary monetary unit before being succeeded by the rial, and is still commonly used informally in everyday pricing.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.