CFA franc
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The CFA franc is a currency used by several West and Central African countries, historically linked to the French franc and now pegged to the euro.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CFA franc canonical | 13 |
| CFA franc sign | 1 |
| French franc | 1 |
| franc des Colonies Françaises d’Afrique | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2160229 — 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: CFA franc Context triple: [Central African CFA franc, typeOf, CFA franc]
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A.
CFP franc
The CFP franc is a currency used in several French overseas collectivities in the Pacific, including New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Wallis and Futuna.
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B.
French West African franc
The French West African franc was the colonial currency used across several territories in French West Africa before being replaced by the CFA franc.
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C.
French livre
The French livre was the pre-franc monetary unit of France, used for centuries until it was replaced during the French Revolution and early French First Republic.
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D.
West African CFA franc
The West African CFA franc is a regional currency used by several West African countries, issued by the Central Bank of West African States and pegged to the euro.
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E.
Central African CFA franc
The Central African CFA franc is a regional currency used by several Central African countries, including Gabon, and is guaranteed by the French Treasury.
- 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: CFA franc Target entity description: The CFA franc is a currency used by several West and Central African countries, historically linked to the French franc and now pegged to the euro.
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A.
CFP franc
The CFP franc is a currency used in several French overseas collectivities in the Pacific, including New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Wallis and Futuna.
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B.
French West African franc
The French West African franc was the colonial currency used across several territories in French West Africa before being replaced by the CFA franc.
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C.
French livre
The French livre was the pre-franc monetary unit of France, used for centuries until it was replaced during the French Revolution and early French First Republic.
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D.
West African CFA franc
The West African CFA franc is a regional currency used by several West African countries, issued by the Central Bank of West African States and pegged to the euro.
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E.
Central African CFA franc
The Central African CFA franc is a regional currency used by several Central African countries, including Gabon, and is guaranteed by the French Treasury.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: CFA franc Description of subject: The CFA franc is a currency used by several West and Central African countries, historically linked to the French franc and now pegged to the euro.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ubangi-Shari
this entity surface form:
French franc
this entity surface form:
franc des Colonies Françaises d’Afrique
this entity surface form:
CFA franc sign