BNS
E501147
BNS is the stock ticker symbol for the Bank of Nova Scotia, one of Canada’s largest multinational banks.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BNS canonical | 3 |
| BNS (TSX) | 1 |
| BNS on TSX | 1 |
| NYSE:BNS | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5184934 — 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: BNS Context triple: [Scotiabank, stockTicker, BNS]
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A.
BND
BND is the official currency code for the Brunei dollar, the national currency of Brunei Darussalam.
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B.
BND
BND is the three-letter station code used to identify Bond Street station on the London Underground network.
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C.
BRN
BRN is the IATA airport code for Bern Airport, the primary airport serving Switzerland’s capital city.
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D.
BN
BN is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the German city of Bonn.
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E.
BIS
BIS is the Bank for International Settlements, an international financial institution that serves as a bank for central banks and fosters global monetary and financial stability.
- 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: BNS Target entity description: BNS is the stock ticker symbol for the Bank of Nova Scotia, one of Canada’s largest multinational banks.
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A.
BND
BND is the official currency code for the Brunei dollar, the national currency of Brunei Darussalam.
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B.
BND
BND is the three-letter station code used to identify Bond Street station on the London Underground network.
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C.
BRN
BRN is the IATA airport code for Bern Airport, the primary airport serving Switzerland’s capital city.
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D.
BN
BN is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the German city of Bonn.
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E.
BIS
BIS is the commonly used acronym for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security, which oversees export controls and national security–related trade regulations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | stock ticker symbol ⓘ |
| associatedWithBrand | Scotiabank ⓘ |
| associatedWithLEI | The Bank of Nova Scotia legal entity identifier ⓘ |
| associatedWithMarket |
Canadian equity market
ⓘ
U.S. equity market ⓘ |
| belongsToIndexFamily | S&P/TSX indices ⓘ |
| countryOfExchange |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| currencyOfPrimaryListing | Canadian dollar ⓘ |
| currencyOfSecondaryListing |
United States dollar
ⓘ
linked to:
US dollar
|
| dividendPaying | true ⓘ |
| exchangeSymbol |
NYSE:BNS
ⓘ
linked to:
BNS
TSX:BNS ⓘ |
| hasCorporateActions |
dividends
ⓘ
stock splits ⓘ |
| hasCUSIP | 064149107 ⓘ |
| hasISIN | CA0641491075 ⓘ |
| hasOwnershipRights |
rights to dividends from The Bank of Nova Scotia
ⓘ
voting rights in The Bank of Nova Scotia ⓘ |
| hasRiskCategory | equity security ⓘ |
| hasUnderlyingBusiness |
capital markets
ⓘ
commercial banking ⓘ retail banking ⓘ wealth management ⓘ |
| industry |
Banking
ⓘ
Diversified banks ⓘ |
| isComponentOf |
Major Canadian bank stock indices
ⓘ
S&P/TSX Composite Index ⓘ |
| issuerBrandName | Scotiabank ⓘ |
| issuerFoundedIn | 1832 (The Bank of Nova Scotia) ⓘ |
| issuerIs |
a multinational bank
ⓘ
one of Canada’s largest banks ⓘ |
| listedOn |
New York Stock Exchange
ⓘ
Toronto Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| primaryListing | Toronto Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| regulatoryJurisdiction |
Canadian securities regulators
ⓘ
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ⓘ
linked to:
Securities and Exchange Commission
|
| represents |
The Bank of Nova Scotia
ⓘ
linked to:
Scotiabank
|
| secondaryListing | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| sector | Financials ⓘ |
| securityType | common stock ⓘ |
| tradedAs | large-cap bank stock ⓘ |
| tradingStatus | actively traded ⓘ |
| underlyingIssuer |
The Bank of Nova Scotia
ⓘ
linked to:
Scotiabank
|
| underlyingIssuerCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| underlyingIssuerHeadquarters |
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ⓘ
linked to:
Toronto
|
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: BNS Description of subject: BNS is the stock ticker symbol for the Bank of Nova Scotia, one of Canada’s largest multinational banks.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.