lev
E333219
The lev is the official national currency of Bulgaria, used for everyday transactions and financial operations throughout the country.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| lev canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3181139 — 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: lev Context triple: [Kingdom of Bulgaria, currency, lev]
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A.
Le
Le is a common Vietnamese surname shared by many notable figures in the country’s history and culture.
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B.
LV
LV is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code representing Latvia.
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C.
LU
LU is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Luxembourg for international identification and data standards.
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D.
Lu
Lu is the traditional abbreviation and historical name used to refer to China’s Shandong province.
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E.
LO
LO was the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Lorillard Tobacco Company, a major American tobacco manufacturer best known for brands like Newport.
- 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: lev Target entity description: The lev is the official national currency of Bulgaria, used for everyday transactions and financial operations throughout the country.
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A.
Le
Le is a common Vietnamese surname shared by many notable figures in the country’s history and culture.
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B.
LV
LV is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code representing Latvia.
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C.
LU
LU is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Luxembourg for international identification and data standards.
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D.
Lu
Lu is the traditional abbreviation and historical name used to refer to China’s Shandong province.
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E.
LO
LO was the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Lorillard Tobacco Company, a major American tobacco manufacturer best known for brands like Newport.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | currency ⓘ |
| banknoteDenomination |
10 levs
ⓘ
100 levs ⓘ 20 levs ⓘ 5 levs ⓘ 50 levs ⓘ |
| centralBank | Bulgarian National Bank ⓘ |
| coinDenomination |
1 lev
ⓘ
1 stotinka ⓘ 10 stotinki ⓘ 2 leva ⓘ 2 stotinki ⓘ 20 stotinki ⓘ 5 stotinki ⓘ 50 stotinki ⓘ |
| country | Bulgaria ⓘ |
| decimalPlaces | 2 ⓘ |
| enteredERMII | 2020 ⓘ |
| exchangeRateRegime | currency board arrangement ⓘ |
| introduced | 1999 (current BGN redenomination) ⓘ |
| ISO4217Code | BGN ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
Bulgarian
ⓘ
linked to:
Bulgarian language
|
| legalTenderIn | Bulgaria ⓘ |
| monetaryUnitOfAccount | Bulgaria ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | “lion” in Bulgarian ⓘ |
| officialCurrencyOf | Bulgaria ⓘ |
| peggedTo | euro ⓘ |
| redenominationRate | 1 BGN = 1000 BGL ⓘ |
| region | Europe ⓘ |
| regulates |
cash payments in Bulgaria
ⓘ
non-cash payments in Bulgaria ⓘ |
| replacedCurrency | old Bulgarian lev (BGL) ⓘ |
| status | active ⓘ |
| subunit | stotinka ⓘ |
| subunitToUnit | 100 stotinki = 1 lev ⓘ |
| symbol |
BGN
ⓘ
лв ⓘ |
| type | fiat currency ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Bulgarian government
ⓘ
linked to:
Council of Ministers of Bulgaria
businesses in Bulgaria ⓘ residents of Bulgaria ⓘ |
| usedFor |
everyday transactions in Bulgaria
ⓘ
financial operations in Bulgaria ⓘ |
| usedSince | 1881 (first lev) ⓘ |
| writingSystemOfSymbol | Cyrillic ⓘ |
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: lev Description of subject: The lev is the official national currency of Bulgaria, used for everyday transactions and financial operations throughout the country.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.