XAU
E1022373
XAU is the ISO 4217 currency code used to represent one troy ounce of gold in financial and trading systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| XAU canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13125732 — 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: XAU Context triple: [Gold, ISO4217CurrencyCode, XAU]
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A.
GOLD
GOLD is the radio call sign historically used by the British royal yacht HMY Britannia.
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B.
XCH
XCH is the IATA airport code for Christmas Island’s main international airport in the Indian Ocean.
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C.
GLD
GLD is the abbreviation for the United Kingdom’s Government Legal Department, the principal provider of legal services to central government.
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D.
GLD
GLD is the National Rail station code for Guildford railway station in Surrey, England.
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E.
U.S. Gold
U.S. Gold was a British video game publisher known for importing and distributing popular American computer and console games in Europe during the 1980s and early 1990s.
- 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: XAU Target entity description: XAU is the ISO 4217 currency code used to represent one troy ounce of gold in financial and trading systems.
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A.
GOLD
GOLD is the radio call sign historically used by the British royal yacht HMY Britannia.
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B.
XCH
XCH is the IATA airport code for Christmas Island’s main international airport in the Indian Ocean.
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C.
GLD
GLD is the abbreviation for the United Kingdom’s Government Legal Department, the principal provider of legal services to central government.
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D.
GLD
GLD is the National Rail station code for Guildford railway station in Surrey, England.
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E.
U.S. Gold
U.S. Gold was a British video game publisher known for importing and distributing popular American computer and console games in Europe during the 1980s and early 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | ISO 4217 currency code ⓘ |
| category |
commodity currency code
ⓘ
precious metal currency code ⓘ |
| denotes | gold as a monetary commodity ⓘ |
| firstLetterIndicates | non-national monetary asset ⓘ |
| hasFirstLetter | X ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
not legal tender of any country
ⓘ
represents a specific weight of gold rather than a national currency ⓘ |
| hasUnit | troy ounce ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
gold exchange-traded funds
ⓘ
gold forwards ⓘ gold futures ⓘ gold options ⓘ gold spot price ⓘ |
| represents | one troy ounce of gold ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | ISO 4217 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbolType | three-letter currency code ⓘ |
| tradedAgainst |
AUD
ⓘ
CAD ⓘ CHF ⓘ EUR NERFINISHED ⓘ GBP ⓘ JPY ⓘ USD NERFINISHED ⓘ other fiat currencies ⓘ |
| underlyingAsset | gold ⓘ |
| usedAs | synthetic currency code for gold ⓘ |
| usedBy |
banks
ⓘ
brokerage firms ⓘ central banks ⓘ institutional investors ⓘ retail traders ⓘ |
| usedFor |
accounting of gold positions
ⓘ
benchmarking gold-linked instruments ⓘ quoting gold prices ⓘ risk management in gold exposure ⓘ settlement of gold trades ⓘ valuation of gold reserves ⓘ |
| usedIn |
SWIFT messages
ⓘ
bullion trading ⓘ derivatives trading ⓘ electronic trading systems ⓘ financial data feeds ⓘ financial markets ⓘ foreign exchange trading ⓘ over-the-counter markets ⓘ pricing of gold-related financial products ⓘ risk management systems ⓘ trading platforms ⓘ treasury management systems ⓘ |
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: XAU Description of subject: XAU is the ISO 4217 currency code used to represent one troy ounce of gold in financial and trading systems.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.