Chinese yuan
E25290
The Chinese yuan is the official currency of the People's Republic of China and one of the world's major reserve and trading currencies.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Renminbi | 83 |
| Chinese yuan canonical | 34 |
| renminbi | 12 |
| CNY | 3 |
| Chinese yuan (CNY) | 3 |
| 人民币 | 2 |
| Chinese Renminbi futures | 1 |
| Chinese renminbi | 1 |
| RMB | 1 |
| offshore RMB | 1 |
| offshore yuan | 1 |
| yuan | 1 |
| 人民幣 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T199657 — 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: Chinese yuan Context triple: [Zimbabwean dollar, replacedBy, Chinese yuan]
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A.
Hong Kong dollar
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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B.
Renminbi banknotes
Renminbi banknotes are the official paper currency of the People’s Republic of China, notable for prominently featuring a portrait of Mao Zedong on most modern denominations.
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C.
Japanese yen
The Japanese yen is Japan's official fiat currency and one of the world's most traded reserve currencies in global foreign exchange markets.
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D.
Singapore dollar
The Singapore dollar is the official currency of Singapore, known for its stability, strong management by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and significant role as a major trading and reserve currency in Asia.
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E.
South Korean won
The South Korean won is the official currency of South Korea, known for its significant devaluation and subsequent reforms during the late-1990s Asian financial crisis.
- 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: Chinese yuan Target entity description: The Chinese yuan is the official currency of the People's Republic of China and one of the world's major reserve and trading currencies.
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A.
Hong Kong dollar
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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B.
Renminbi banknotes
Renminbi banknotes are the official paper currency of the People’s Republic of China, notable for prominently featuring a portrait of Mao Zedong on most modern denominations.
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C.
Japanese yen
The Japanese yen is Japan's official fiat currency and one of the world's most traded reserve currencies in global foreign exchange markets.
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D.
Singapore dollar
The Singapore dollar is the official currency of Singapore, known for its stability, strong management by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and significant role as a major trading and reserve currency in Asia.
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E.
South Korean won
The South Korean won is the official currency of South Korea, known for its significant devaluation and subsequent reforms during the late-1990s Asian financial crisis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fiat currency
ⓘ
national currency ⓘ |
| addedToSDRBasketYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| banknoteDenomination |
1 yuan
ⓘ
10 yuan ⓘ 100 yuan ⓘ 20 yuan ⓘ 5 yuan ⓘ 50 yuan ⓘ |
| centralBank | People's Bank of China ⓘ |
| ChineseNameSimplified |
Chinese yuan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
人民币
|
| ChineseNameTraditional |
Chinese yuan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
人民幣
|
| coinDenomination |
1 jiao
ⓘ
1 yuan ⓘ 5 jiao ⓘ |
| country |
China
ⓘ
surface form:
People's Republic of China
|
| decimalPlaces | 2 ⓘ |
| IMFSpecialDrawingRightsBasketMember | true ⓘ |
| introduced | 1948 ⓘ |
| ISO4217Code |
Chinese yuan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
CNY
|
| ISO4217Number | 156 ⓘ |
| issuingAuthority | People's Bank of China ⓘ |
| legalTenderIn |
China
ⓘ
surface form:
Mainland China
|
| localSymbol | 元 ⓘ |
| majorOffshoreTradingCenter |
Hong Kong, China
ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
Singapore ⓘ |
| majorTradingCenter | Shanghai ⓘ |
| monetaryAuthorityHeadquarters | Beijing ⓘ |
| monetaryPolicyRegime | managed floating exchange rate ⓘ |
| officialName |
Chinese yuan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Renminbi
|
| offshoreVariant | CNH ⓘ |
| onshoreVariant |
Chinese yuan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
CNY
|
| pinyinName | Rénmínbì ⓘ |
| pinyinUnitName | yuán ⓘ |
| replacedCurrency | fabi ⓘ |
| shortName | yuan ⓘ |
| subunit |
fen
ⓘ
jiao ⓘ |
| subunitToUnit |
1 yuan = 10 jiao
ⓘ
1 yuan = 100 fen ⓘ |
| symbol | ¥ ⓘ |
| usedAsReserveCurrency | true ⓘ |
| usedAsTradingCurrency | true ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Chinese businesses
ⓘ
State Council of China ⓘ
surface form:
Chinese government
Chinese residents ⓘ |
| user |
Hong Kong, China
ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong (for offshore CNH market)
Macau ⓘ
surface form:
Macau (for offshore CNH market)
China ⓘ
surface form:
Mainland China
|
| writingSystem | Chinese characters ⓘ |
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: Chinese yuan Description of subject: The Chinese yuan is the official currency of the People's Republic of China and one of the world's major reserve and trading currencies.
Referenced by (144)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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