Syrian pound

E60985

fiat currency national currency

The Syrian pound is the official monetary unit of Syria, issued by the Central Bank of Syria and subdivided into 100 piastres.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Syrian pound canonical	15
Syrian pounds	1
الليرة السورية	1

Statements (30)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	fiat currency ⓘ national currency ⓘ
centralBank	Central Bank of Syria ⓘ
country	Syria ⓘ
currencySymbol	LS ⓘ £ ⓘ ل.س ⓘ
denominatedIn	pounds ⓘ
hasLocalName	Syrian pound self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: الليرة السورية
hasPluralName	Syrian pound self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Syrian pounds
hasSubunitName	piastre ⓘ
ISO4217Code	SYP ⓘ
issuer	Central Bank of Syria ⓘ
legalTenderIn	Syria ⓘ
monetaryAuthority	Central Bank of Syria ⓘ
monetaryUnitOf	Syrian economy ⓘ
officialCurrencyOf	Syria ⓘ
peggedStatus	subject to exchange controls by Syrian authorities ⓘ
region	Middle East ⓘ
regulatesBy	Central Bank of Syria ⓘ
script	Arabic script ⓘ
subunit	piastre ⓘ
subunitRatio	1 Syrian pound = 100 piastres ⓘ
subunitToUnit	100 piastres ⓘ
type	coinage ⓘ paper money ⓘ
usedBy	Syrian government ⓘ Syrian residents ⓘ
usedFor	domestic transactions in Syria ⓘ
usedIn	Syria ⓘ surface form: Syrian Arab Republic

How these facts were elicited

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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: Syrian pound
Description of subject: The Syrian pound is the official monetary unit of Syria, issued by the Central Bank of Syria and subdivided into 100 piastres.

Referenced by (17)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Syria → currency → Syrian pound ⓘ

Palestine pound → replacedBy → Syrian pound ⓘ

Syrian pound → hasPluralName → Syrian pound self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Syrian pounds

Syrian pound → hasLocalName → Syrian pound self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: الليرة السورية

SYP → represents → Syrian pound ⓘ

SYP → isOfficialCurrencyCodeOf → Syrian pound ⓘ

SYP → hasCurrencyName → Syrian pound ⓘ

SYP → subunitOf → Syrian pound ⓘ

SYR → hasCurrency → Syrian pound ⓘ

Latakia → usesCurrency → Syrian pound ⓘ

Damascus Governorate → usesCurrency → Syrian pound ⓘ

Syrian government → usesCurrency → Syrian pound ⓘ

lira → isDifferentFrom → Syrian pound ⓘ

subject surface form: Lebanese pound

State of Damascus → usedCurrency → Syrian pound ⓘ

State of Aleppo → hasCurrency → Syrian pound ⓘ

Jabal Druze State → currency → Syrian pound ⓘ

Central Bank of Syria → currencyManaged → Syrian pound ⓘ