North Korean won
E45214
The North Korean won is the official fiat currency of North Korea, tightly controlled by the state and not freely convertible on international markets.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| North Korean won canonical | 7 |
| North Korean won (early issues) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T356121 — 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: North Korean won Context triple: [North Korea, currency, North Korean won]
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A.
Kim Man-il
Kim Man-il was the younger son of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, who died in childhood and is remembered primarily within the context of the ruling Kim family’s history.
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B.
Kim Jong Un
Kim Jong Un is the authoritarian Supreme Leader of North Korea, known for his dynastic rule, nuclear weapons program, and strict control over the country’s political and social life.
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C.
Kim Yong-il
Kim Yong-il is a North Korean politician and technocrat who served as the country's Premier from 2007 to 2010.
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D.
Kim Pyong-il
Kim Pyong-il is a North Korean diplomat and politician, best known as a son of founding leader Kim Il Sung and a long-serving ambassador abroad.
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E.
Kang Pan-sok
Kang Pan-sok was a Korean woman best known as the mother of North Korea’s founding leader Kim Il Sung and is venerated in North Korean state mythology.
- 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: North Korean won Target entity description: The North Korean won is the official fiat currency of North Korea, tightly controlled by the state and not freely convertible on international markets.
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A.
Kim Man-il
Kim Man-il was the younger son of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, who died in childhood and is remembered primarily within the context of the ruling Kim family’s history.
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B.
Kim Jong Un
Kim Jong Un is the authoritarian Supreme Leader of North Korea, known for his dynastic rule, nuclear weapons program, and strict control over the country’s political and social life.
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C.
Kim Yong-il
Kim Yong-il is a North Korean politician and technocrat who served as the country's Premier from 2007 to 2010.
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D.
Kim Pyong-il
Kim Pyong-il is a North Korean diplomat and politician, best known as a son of founding leader Kim Il Sung and a long-serving ambassador abroad.
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E.
Kang Pan-sok
Kang Pan-sok was a Korean woman best known as the mother of North Korea’s founding leader Kim Il Sung and is venerated in North Korean state mythology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fiat currency
ⓘ
national currency ⓘ |
| blackMarketExchangeRate | differs significantly from official rate ⓘ |
| capitalControls | strict ⓘ |
| centralBank | Central Bank of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ⓘ |
| circulationOutsideCountry | very limited ⓘ |
| controlledBy |
North Korean government
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of North Korea
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| convertibility | not freely convertible ⓘ |
| country | North Korea ⓘ |
| currencyFamily | won currencies of the Korean peninsula ⓘ |
| currencySign | ₩ ⓘ |
| denominationType |
banknotes
ⓘ
coins ⓘ |
| economicRole |
medium of exchange in North Korea
ⓘ
store of value within North Korea’s controlled system ⓘ unit of account in North Korea ⓘ |
| exchangeRegime | state-controlled ⓘ |
| firstIntroducedInCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| foreignExchangeMarketStatus | highly restricted ⓘ |
| hasFeature | portraits and socialist imagery on banknotes ⓘ |
| hasRestriction | foreigners face limits on holding and using it ⓘ |
| IMFStatus | non-convertible currency ⓘ |
| inflationRisk | historically high ⓘ |
| introducedAs | successor to the Korean yen in the North ⓘ |
| ISO4217Code | KPW ⓘ |
| issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ⓘ |
| legalTenderIn | North Korea ⓘ |
| monetaryAuthority | Central Bank of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ⓘ |
| monetaryPolicy | centrally planned ⓘ |
| monetarySystem | centrally administered ⓘ |
| officialCurrencyOf | North Korea ⓘ |
| peggedStatus | not freely traded on global forex markets ⓘ |
| regulatesUseOfForeignCurrency |
North Korean government
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of North Korea
|
| relatedCurrency | South Korean won ⓘ |
| subunit | chon ⓘ |
| subunitToUnitRatio | 100 chon = 1 won ⓘ |
| symbol | ₩ ⓘ |
| usedAlongside | foreign currencies in informal markets ⓘ |
| usedFor | domestic transactions in North Korea ⓘ |
| usedIn | state rationing system ⓘ |
| usedPrimarilyBy | residents of North Korea ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Hangul ⓘ |
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: North Korean won Description of subject: The North Korean won is the official fiat currency of North Korea, tightly controlled by the state and not freely convertible on international markets.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
North Korean won (early issues)