Central African CFA franc
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The Central African CFA franc is a regional currency used by several Central African countries, including Gabon, and is guaranteed by the French Treasury.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Central African CFA franc canonical | 49 |
| Central African CFA franc zone | 2 |
| CFA franc BEAC | 1 |
| Central African CFA franc zone (for some members) | 1 |
| FCFA | 1 |
| French Equatorial African franc | 1 |
| franc CFA d’Afrique centrale | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T376176 — 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: Central African CFA franc Context triple: [Gabon, currency, Central African CFA franc]
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A.
African Monetary Union
The African Monetary Union is a proposed initiative to create a single continental currency and unified monetary policy for member states of the African Union.
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B.
Ghanaian cedi
The Ghanaian cedi is the official national currency of Ghana, used for everyday transactions and monetary policy in the country.
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C.
Liberian dollar
The Liberian dollar is the official monetary unit of Liberia, used alongside the U.S. dollar in the country’s dual-currency economy.
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D.
Haitian gourde
The Haitian gourde is the official monetary unit of Haiti, used for everyday transactions and economic activities throughout the country.
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E.
Algerian dinar
The Algerian dinar is the official monetary unit of Algeria, issued and regulated by the Bank of Algeria.
- 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: Central African CFA franc Target entity description: The Central African CFA franc is a regional currency used by several Central African countries, including Gabon, and is guaranteed by the French Treasury.
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A.
African Monetary Union
The African Monetary Union is a proposed initiative to create a single continental currency and unified monetary policy for member states of the African Union.
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B.
Ghanaian cedi
The Ghanaian cedi is the official national currency of Ghana, used for everyday transactions and monetary policy in the country.
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C.
Liberian dollar
The Liberian dollar is the official monetary unit of Liberia, used alongside the U.S. dollar in the country’s dual-currency economy.
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D.
Haitian gourde
The Haitian gourde is the official monetary unit of Haiti, used for everyday transactions and economic activities throughout the country.
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E.
Algerian dinar
The Algerian dinar is the official monetary unit of Algeria, issued and regulated by the Bank of Algeria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Central African CFA franc Description of subject: The Central African CFA franc is a regional currency used by several Central African countries, including Gabon, and is guaranteed by the French Treasury.
Referenced by (56)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bank of Central African States
subject surface form:
Bank of Central African States
this entity surface form:
Central African CFA franc zone