MTL
E253095
MTL was the ISO 4217 currency code for the Maltese lira, the former national currency of Malta before adoption of the euro.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MTL canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2288313 — 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: MTL Context triple: [Maltese lira, ISO4217Code, MTL]
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A.
MTL
MTL is the standard three-letter abbreviation used for the National Hockey League team the Montreal Canadiens.
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B.
.mt
.mt is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Malta for use on the internet.
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C.
MEL
MEL is the three-letter IATA airport code for Melbourne Airport, the primary international gateway serving Melbourne, Australia.
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D.
MTT
MTT is the acronym for Cuba’s Territorial Troops Militia, a large volunteer defense force integrated into the country’s national defense system.
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E.
MTPD
MTPD is the law enforcement agency responsible for policing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s transit system, including Metrorail and Metrobus.
- 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: MTL Target entity description: MTL was the ISO 4217 currency code for the Maltese lira, the former national currency of Malta before adoption of the euro.
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A.
MTL
MTL is the standard three-letter abbreviation used for the National Hockey League team the Montreal Canadiens.
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B.
.mt
.mt is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Malta for use on the internet.
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C.
MEL
MEL is the three-letter IATA airport code for Melbourne Airport, the primary international gateway serving Melbourne, Australia.
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D.
MTT
MTT is the acronym for Cuba’s Territorial Troops Militia, a large volunteer defense force integrated into the country’s national defense system.
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E.
MTPD
MTPD is the law enforcement agency responsible for policing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s transit system, including Metrorail and Metrobus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ISO 4217 currency code
ⓘ
former currency ⓘ |
| alphabeticCode | MTL ⓘ |
| country |
Malta
ⓘ
Malta ⓘ |
| currency | Maltese lira ⓘ |
| currentCurrency | euro ⓘ |
| formerCurrency | Maltese lira ⓘ |
| ISO4217Code | MTL self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
EUR
ⓘ
euro ⓘ |
| represents | Maltese lira ⓘ |
| standard | ISO 4217 ⓘ |
| status | obsolete currency code ⓘ |
| usedFor | national currency of Malta ⓘ |
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: MTL Description of subject: MTL was the ISO 4217 currency code for the Maltese lira, the former national currency of Malta before adoption of the euro.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Maltese lira