Brazilian real
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The Brazilian real is the official currency of Brazil, introduced in 1994 as part of an economic stabilization plan and later subjected to significant devaluation during the 1999 currency crisis.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brazilian real canonical | 135 |
| Brazil (as Brazilian real derived from Portuguese real) | 1 |
| Brazilian Real futures | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T357075 — 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: Brazilian real Context triple: [Brazilian currency crisis of 1999, mainSubject, Brazilian real]
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A.
Chilean peso
The Chilean peso is the official monetary unit of Chile, used for everyday transactions and financial operations throughout the country.
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B.
Peruvian sol
The Peruvian sol is the official monetary unit of Peru, used for everyday transactions and economic activities throughout the country.
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C.
Mexican peso
The Mexican peso is Mexico's official national currency and one of the most traded currencies in the world, widely used in international foreign exchange markets.
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D.
Colombian peso
The Colombian peso is the official national currency of Colombia, used for all everyday transactions and financial operations throughout the country.
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E.
South African rand
The South African rand is the official currency of South Africa and a key regional medium of exchange used in several neighboring countries.
- 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: Brazilian real Target entity description: The Brazilian real is the official currency of Brazil, introduced in 1994 as part of an economic stabilization plan and later subjected to significant devaluation during the 1999 currency crisis.
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A.
Chilean peso
The Chilean peso is the official monetary unit of Chile, used for everyday transactions and financial operations throughout the country.
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B.
Peruvian sol
The Peruvian sol is the official monetary unit of Peru, used for everyday transactions and economic activities throughout the country.
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C.
Mexican peso
The Mexican peso is Mexico's official national currency and one of the most traded currencies in the world, widely used in international foreign exchange markets.
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D.
Colombian peso
The Colombian peso is the official national currency of Colombia, used for all everyday transactions and financial operations throughout the country.
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E.
South African rand
The South African rand is the official currency of South Africa and a key regional medium of exchange used in several neighboring countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Brazilian real Description of subject: The Brazilian real is the official currency of Brazil, introduced in 1994 as part of an economic stabilization plan and later subjected to significant devaluation during the 1999 currency crisis.
Referenced by (137)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Brasópolis
this entity surface form:
Brazil (as Brazilian real derived from Portuguese real)