leu
E204748
The leu is the monetary unit historically used in the Danubian Principalities and later adopted as the national currency of both Romania and Moldova.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| leu canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1822662 — 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: leu Context triple: [Danubian Principalities, currency, leu]
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A.
Le
Le is a common Vietnamese surname shared by many notable figures in the country’s history and culture.
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B.
LEU
LEU is the National Rail station code for Leuchars (for St Andrews) railway station in Fife, Scotland.
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C.
Lu
Lu is the traditional abbreviation and historical name used to refer to China’s Shandong province.
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D.
LU
LU is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Luxembourg for international identification and data standards.
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E.
LEG
LEG is the International Maritime Organization’s Legal Committee, responsible for developing and maintaining international maritime law and liability conventions.
- 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: leu Target entity description: The leu is the monetary unit historically used in the Danubian Principalities and later adopted as the national currency of both Romania and Moldova.
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A.
Le
Le is a common Vietnamese surname shared by many notable figures in the country’s history and culture.
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B.
LEU
LEU is the National Rail station code for Leuchars (for St Andrews) railway station in Fife, Scotland.
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C.
Lu
Lu is the traditional abbreviation and historical name used to refer to China’s Shandong province.
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D.
LU
LU is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Luxembourg for international identification and data standards.
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E.
LEG
LEG is the International Maritime Organization’s Legal Committee, responsible for developing and maintaining international maritime law and liability conventions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
currency
ⓘ
currency ⓘ currency ⓘ currency ⓘ currency ⓘ monetary unit ⓘ |
| country |
Moldova
ⓘ
Romania ⓘ Romania ⓘ Romania ⓘ |
| countryVersion |
Moldovan leu
ⓘ
Romanian leu ⓘ |
| dateOfIntroduction |
1993
ⓘ
2005-07-01 ⓘ |
| etymology | Romanian word "leu" meaning "lion" ⓘ |
| historicallyUsedIn |
Moldavia
ⓘ
Wallachia ⓘ |
| ISO4217Code |
MDL
ⓘ
ROL ⓘ RON ⓘ RON ⓘ |
| monetaryAuthority |
National Bank of Moldova
ⓘ
National Bank of Romania ⓘ |
| pluralForm |
lei
ⓘ
lei ⓘ |
| redenominationFactor | 10000 ⓘ |
| region |
Eastern Europe
ⓘ
Eastern Europe ⓘ Eastern Europe ⓘ |
| replacedByCurrency |
Romanian leu
ⓘ
surface form:
Romanian leu (RON)
|
| replacedCurrency |
Moldovan cupon
ⓘ
Romanian leu ⓘ
surface form:
Romanian leu (ROL)
Romanian leu ⓘ
surface form:
Romanian leu (ROL)
|
| subunit |
ban
ⓘ
ban ⓘ ban ⓘ |
| subunitToUnitRatio |
100
ⓘ
100 ⓘ 100 ⓘ |
| symbol | lei ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Danubian Principalities
ⓘ
Moldova ⓘ Moldova ⓘ Romania ⓘ Romania ⓘ |
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: leu Description of subject: The leu is the monetary unit historically used in the Danubian Principalities and later adopted as the national currency of both Romania and Moldova.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.