CFA
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CFA is the commonly used symbol for the West African CFA franc, a currency used by several West African countries.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5438305 — 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: CFA Context triple: [XOF, currencySymbol, CFA]
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A.
CFA
CFA is the abbreviation for Commander Field Army, the senior British Army officer responsible for commanding the Field Army’s operational forces.
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B.
CQF
CQF (Cyclic Queuing and Forwarding) is a time-sensitive networking mechanism defined in IEEE 802.1Qch that provides deterministic, low-latency packet forwarding using cyclic transmission queues.
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C.
CAF
CAF is a Spanish multinational company that designs and manufactures railway vehicles and related transport equipment used by metro systems worldwide.
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CAF
CAF is the commonly used abbreviation for the Chief of Air Force, the professional head of an air force service.
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E.
CAF
CAF is the Confederation of African Football, the governing body for association football in Africa and one of FIFA’s six continental confederations.
- 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: CFA Target entity description: CFA is the commonly used symbol for the West African CFA franc, a currency used by several West African countries.
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A.
CFA
CFA is the abbreviation for Commander Field Army, the senior British Army officer responsible for commanding the Field Army’s operational forces.
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B.
CQF
CQF (Cyclic Queuing and Forwarding) is a time-sensitive networking mechanism defined in IEEE 802.1Qch that provides deterministic, low-latency packet forwarding using cyclic transmission queues.
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C.
CAF
CAF is a Spanish multinational company that designs and manufactures railway vehicles and related transport equipment used by metro systems worldwide.
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D.
CAF
CAF is the commonly used abbreviation for the Chief of Air Force, the professional head of an air force service.
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E.
CAF
CAF is the commonly used acronym for the Canadian Armed Forces, the unified military organization responsible for defending Canada and supporting international peace and security operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ISO 4217 currency code
ⓘ
currency ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf |
Communauté Financière Africaine
ⓘ
linked to:
West African Economic and Monetary Union
|
| currencyCode | XOF ⓘ |
| fullName | West African CFA franc ⓘ |
| hasISO4217Code | XOF ⓘ |
| introduced | 1945 ⓘ |
| issuingAuthority | Central Bank of West African States ⓘ |
| legalTenderIn |
Benin
ⓘ
Burkina Faso ⓘ Côte d’Ivoire ⓘ
linked to:
Côte d'Ivoire
Guinea-Bissau ⓘ Mali ⓘ Niger ⓘ Senegal ⓘ Togo ⓘ |
| monetaryUnion | West African Economic and Monetary Union ⓘ |
| peggedTo |
French franc (historically)
ⓘ
linked to:
French franc (Latin Monetary Union)
euro ⓘ |
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| subunit | centime ⓘ |
| subunitToUnitRatio | 100 ⓘ |
| symbol | CFA ⓘ |
| type | fiat currency ⓘ |
| usedFor |
everyday transactions
ⓘ
government finances ⓘ international trade in West Africa ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Benin
ⓘ
Burkina Faso ⓘ Côte d’Ivoire ⓘ
linked to:
Côte d'Ivoire
Guinea-Bissau ⓘ Mali ⓘ Niger ⓘ Senegal ⓘ Togo ⓘ West African Economic and Monetary Union ⓘ |
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: CFA Description of subject: CFA is the commonly used symbol for the West African CFA franc, a currency used by several West African countries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.