cruzado
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The cruzado was a former Brazilian currency unit used during the 1980s as part of the country's efforts to combat hyperinflation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| cruzado canonical | 1 |
| cruzado novo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9575271 — 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: cruzado Context triple: [Casa da Moeda do Brasil, formerCurrencyProduced, cruzado]
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A.
La Cruz
La Cruz is a Chilean municipality located in the Province of Quillota, known for its agricultural activity and rural character.
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B.
CRUSA
CRUSA is the commonly used abbreviation for Capital Region USA, a tourism and marketing organization that promotes travel to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and surrounding regions.
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C.
Encruzado
Encruzado is a high-quality Portuguese white grape variety from the Dão region, known for producing structured, age-worthy wines with floral, citrus, and mineral character.
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D.
Cruzcampo
Cruzcampo is a popular Spanish beer brand known for its Andalusian origins and wide distribution throughout Spain.
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E.
Croce
Croce is the surname of Benedetto Croce, the influential Italian philosopher, historian, and critic associated with idealism and liberal thought.
- 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: cruzado Target entity description: The cruzado was a former Brazilian currency unit used during the 1980s as part of the country's efforts to combat hyperinflation.
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A.
La Cruz
La Cruz is a Chilean municipality located in the Province of Quillota, known for its agricultural activity and rural character.
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B.
CRUSA
CRUSA is the commonly used abbreviation for Capital Region USA, a tourism and marketing organization that promotes travel to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and surrounding regions.
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C.
Encruzado
Encruzado is a high-quality Portuguese white grape variety from the Dão region, known for producing structured, age-worthy wines with floral, citrus, and mineral character.
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D.
Cruzcampo
Cruzcampo is a popular Spanish beer brand known for its Andalusian origins and wide distribution throughout Spain.
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E.
Croce
Croce is the surname of Benedetto Croce, the influential Italian philosopher, historian, and critic associated with idealism and liberal thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | former Brazilian currency ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| currencyOf | Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| denominationType |
banknotes
ⓘ
coins ⓘ |
| hasInflationContext | period of high inflation ⓘ |
| hasNumericISOCode | 076 ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Brazilian economic stabilization plans of the 1980s ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| introducedOn | 1986-02-28 ⓘ |
| ISO4217Code | BRC ⓘ |
| legalTenderIn | Federative Republic of Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monetaryAuthority | Central Bank of Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfPlan | Cruzado Plan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessorCurrency | Brazilian cruzeiro (first cruzeiro) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForIntroduction | combat hyperinflation in Brazil ⓘ |
| replacedByCurrency | cruzado novo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedByCurrencyAtRate | 1 cruzado novo = 1,000 cruzados ⓘ |
| replacedCurrency | Brazilian cruzeiro (first cruzeiro) ⓘ |
| replacedCurrencyAtRate | 1 cruzado = 1,000 cruzeiros ⓘ |
| status | obsolete currency ⓘ |
| subunit | centavo ⓘ |
| subunitToUnit | 100 centavos = 1 cruzado ⓘ |
| successorCurrency | cruzado novo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbol | Cz$ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | domestic payments in Brazil ⓘ |
| usedInDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| withdrawnInYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| withdrawnOn | 1989-01-15 ⓘ |
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: cruzado Description of subject: The cruzado was a former Brazilian currency unit used during the 1980s as part of the country's efforts to combat hyperinflation.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
cruzado novo