ZEC
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ZEC is the cryptocurrency token used by the privacy-focused blockchain network Zcash.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ZEC canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9029542 — 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: ZEC Context triple: [Zcash, hasTickerSymbol, ZEC]
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A.
ZCS
ZCS is the public school district serving the town of Zionsville and surrounding areas in Indiana, known for strong academic performance and community involvement.
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B.
EZE
EZE is the IATA airport code for Ministro Pistarini International Airport, the main international gateway serving Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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C.
Zas
Zas is a municipality in the province of A Coruña in Galicia, northwestern Spain, known for its rural landscapes and traditional Galician culture.
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D.
ZEL
ZEL is the National Rail station code assigned to Elephant & Castle station in London.
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E.
ZNA
ZNA is the IATA airport code for Nanaimo Harbour Water Airport, a seaplane facility serving Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.
- 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: ZEC Target entity description: ZEC is the cryptocurrency token used by the privacy-focused blockchain network Zcash.
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A.
ZCS
ZCS is the public school district serving the town of Zionsville and surrounding areas in Indiana, known for strong academic performance and community involvement.
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B.
EZE
EZE is the IATA airport code for Ministro Pistarini International Airport, the main international gateway serving Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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C.
Zas
Zas is a municipality in the province of A Coruña in Galicia, northwestern Spain, known for its rural landscapes and traditional Galician culture.
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D.
ZEL
ZEL is the National Rail station code assigned to Elephant & Castle station in London.
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E.
ZNA
ZNA is the IATA airport code for Nanaimo Harbour Water Airport, a seaplane facility serving Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Zcash native token
ⓘ
cryptocurrency ⓘ |
| basedOn | Bitcoin codebase ⓘ |
| blockRewardHalvingInterval | 840000 blocks ⓘ |
| blockTimeTarget | 75 seconds ⓘ |
| canBe |
mined
ⓘ
traded on cryptocurrency exchanges ⓘ |
| category | privacy coin ⓘ |
| consensusMechanism | proof-of-work ⓘ |
| developedBy | Electric Coin Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| divisibility | 8 decimal places ⓘ |
| governedBy | Zcash community ⓘ |
| hashFunction | Equihash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| initialBlockReward | 12.5 ZEC ⓘ |
| launchedBy | Zcash Company (now Electric Coin Company) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 2016-10-28 ⓘ |
| maximumSupply | 21000000 ⓘ |
| monetaryPolicy | Bitcoin-like halving schedule ⓘ |
| nativeBlockchain | Zcash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| networkType | public blockchain ⓘ |
| primaryUseCase | privacy-preserving digital cash ⓘ |
| privacyModel | zero-knowledge proofs ⓘ |
| privacyTechnology | zk-SNARKs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulatoryConcern | financial privacy ⓘ |
| rewardDistributionChange | development fund after first halving ⓘ |
| smallestUnit | zatoshi ⓘ |
| supportedBy | Zcash Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsAddressType |
t-address
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unified address ⓘ z-address ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
encrypted memo fields
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encrypted recipient addresses ⓘ encrypted transaction amounts ⓘ selective disclosure ⓘ shielded transactions ⓘ transparent addresses ⓘ view keys ⓘ |
| symbolOnCoinMarketCap | ZEC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | ZEC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transactionTypes |
shielded-to-shielded
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shielded-to-transparent ⓘ transparent-to-shielded ⓘ transparent-to-transparent ⓘ |
| usedFor |
private transactions
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transparent transactions ⓘ value transfer on Zcash network ⓘ |
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: ZEC Description of subject: ZEC is the cryptocurrency token used by the privacy-focused blockchain network Zcash.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.