Malawian kwacha
E166717
The Malawian kwacha is the official fiat currency of Malawi, used for everyday transactions and monetary policy in the country.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Malawian kwacha canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1466422 — 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: Malawian kwacha Context triple: [Malawi, currency, Malawian kwacha]
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A.
Zambian kwacha
The Zambian kwacha is the official fiat currency of Zambia, used for everyday transactions and issued by the Bank of Zambia.
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B.
Mozambican metical
The Mozambican metical is the official monetary unit used in Mozambique for all financial transactions and economic activities.
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C.
Botswana pula
The Botswana pula is the official currency of Botswana, known for its relative stability and use in some cross-border transactions in Southern Africa.
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D.
Zimbabwean dollar
The Zimbabwean dollar was the former national currency of Zimbabwe, notorious for its extreme hyperinflation before being abandoned in favor of foreign currencies.
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E.
Malagasy ariary
The Malagasy ariary is the official monetary unit of Madagascar, used for all financial transactions and economic activities in the country.
- 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: Malawian kwacha Target entity description: The Malawian kwacha is the official fiat currency of Malawi, used for everyday transactions and monetary policy in the country.
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A.
Zambian kwacha
The Zambian kwacha is the official fiat currency of Zambia, used for everyday transactions and issued by the Bank of Zambia.
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B.
Mozambican metical
The Mozambican metical is the official monetary unit used in Mozambique for all financial transactions and economic activities.
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C.
Botswana pula
The Botswana pula is the official currency of Botswana, known for its relative stability and use in some cross-border transactions in Southern Africa.
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D.
Zimbabwean dollar
The Zimbabwean dollar was the former national currency of Zimbabwe, notorious for its extreme hyperinflation before being abandoned in favor of foreign currencies.
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E.
Malagasy ariary
The Malagasy ariary is the official monetary unit of Madagascar, used for all financial transactions and economic activities in the country.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fiat currency
ⓘ
national currency ⓘ |
| centralBank | Reserve Bank of Malawi ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Malawi ⓘ |
| currencyUnit | kwacha ⓘ |
| denominationSystem | decimal ⓘ |
| hasCodeStandard | ISO 4217 ⓘ |
| hasSubunit | tambala ⓘ |
| introducedInCountry | Malawi ⓘ |
| isFiat | true ⓘ |
| ISO4217Code | MWK ⓘ |
| issuingAuthority | Reserve Bank of Malawi ⓘ |
| legalTenderIn | Malawi ⓘ |
| monetaryAuthority | Reserve Bank of Malawi ⓘ |
| monetarySystem | Malawian monetary system ⓘ |
| officialCurrencyOf | Malawi ⓘ |
| region | Africa ⓘ |
| replacedCurrency | Malawian pound ⓘ |
| subunit | tambala ⓘ |
| subunitName | tambala ⓘ |
| subunitToUnit | 100 tambala ⓘ |
| symbol | MK ⓘ |
| type |
coins
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paper money ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Malawi
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businesses in Malawi ⓘ residents of Malawi ⓘ |
| usedFor |
everyday transactions in Malawi
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monetary policy implementation in Malawi ⓘ |
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: Malawian kwacha Description of subject: The Malawian kwacha is the official fiat currency of Malawi, used for everyday transactions and monetary policy in the country.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.