United States coins
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United States coins are the official metallic currency of the U.S., issued in various denominations and designs by the U.S. Mint for everyday transactions and collecting.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lincoln cents | 1 |
| U.S. gold dollar coins | 1 |
| United States cent coins | 1 |
| United States coins canonical | 1 |
| United States currency design | 1 |
| United States gold dollar coinage | 1 |
| United States nickel coins | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T60120 — 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: United States coins Context triple: [In God We Trust, usedOn, United States coins]
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A.
United States Mint
The United States Mint is the federal agency responsible for producing the nation’s coinage and related official medals and bullion products.
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B.
Coinage Act of 1792
The Coinage Act of 1792 was a foundational United States law that created the national mint system and defined the country’s monetary structure, including its standard units, metal content, and coin denominations.
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C.
Seal of the United States Department of the Treasury
The Seal of the United States Department of the Treasury is the official emblem symbolizing the federal agency responsible for managing government revenue, featuring imagery associated with finance, authority, and national governance.
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D.
US dollar
The US dollar is the official currency of the United States and the world’s primary reserve currency used widely in global trade and finance.
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E.
Federal Reserve Note
A Federal Reserve Note is the official paper currency issued by the central banking system of the United States, serving as the primary form of U.S. dollar banknotes in circulation.
- 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: United States coins Target entity description: United States coins are the official metallic currency of the U.S., issued in various denominations and designs by the U.S. Mint for everyday transactions and collecting.
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A.
United States Mint
The United States Mint is the federal agency responsible for producing the nation’s coinage and related official medals and bullion products.
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B.
Coinage Act of 1792
The Coinage Act of 1792 was a foundational United States law that created the national mint system and defined the country’s monetary structure, including its standard units, metal content, and coin denominations.
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C.
Seal of the United States Department of the Treasury
The Seal of the United States Department of the Treasury is the official emblem symbolizing the federal agency responsible for managing government revenue, featuring imagery associated with finance, authority, and national governance.
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D.
US dollar
The US dollar is the official currency of the United States and the world’s primary reserve currency used widely in global trade and finance.
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E.
Federal Reserve Note
A Federal Reserve Note is the official paper currency issued by the central banking system of the United States, serving as the primary form of U.S. dollar banknotes in circulation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coinage system
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legal tender ⓘ |
| collectibleType |
bullion coins
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commemorative coins ⓘ numismatic coins ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| currency |
US dollar
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surface form:
United States dollar
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| denomination |
1 cent
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1 dollar ⓘ 10 cents ⓘ 25 cents ⓘ 5 cents ⓘ 50 cents ⓘ |
| designFeature |
E Pluribus Unum motto
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In God We Trust motto ⓘ Liberty inscription ⓘ United States of America inscription ⓘ |
| feature |
mint marks indicating mint facility
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plain edges on some denominations ⓘ reeded edges on many denominations ⓘ |
| governingBody | United States Congress ⓘ |
| issuer | United States Mint ⓘ |
| issuingAuthority | United States Department of the Treasury ⓘ |
| legalStatus | legal tender in the United States ⓘ |
| material | metal ⓘ |
| mintFacility |
Denver Mint
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Philadelphia Mint ⓘ San Francisco Mint ⓘ West Point Mint ⓘ |
| monetaryAuthority |
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
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surface form:
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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| monetaryUnit |
cent
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dime ⓘ dollar ⓘ half dollar ⓘ quarter dollar ⓘ |
| obverseDepiction | portraits of notable Americans ⓘ |
| regulatingLaw | Coinage Act of 1792 ⓘ |
| reverseDepiction |
historical scenes
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national symbols ⓘ state and national park designs ⓘ |
| specialComposition |
gold
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platinum ⓘ silver ⓘ |
| standardComposition |
copper-nickel clad
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cupro-nickel ⓘ zinc core with copper plating ⓘ |
| use |
everyday transactions
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numismatic collecting ⓘ |
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: United States coins Description of subject: United States coins are the official metallic currency of the U.S., issued in various denominations and designs by the U.S. Mint for everyday transactions and collecting.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
United States cent coins
this entity surface form:
United States nickel coins
this entity surface form:
Lincoln cents
subject surface form:
Novus ordo seclorum
this entity surface form:
United States currency design
this entity surface form:
U.S. gold dollar coins
this entity surface form:
United States gold dollar coinage