Litas
E528917
Litas is the former official currency of Lithuania, used before the country adopted the euro.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Litas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5600029 — 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: Litas Context triple: [Lithuanian litas, symbol, Litas]
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A.
Lemi
Lemi is a small rural municipality in southeastern Finland known for its lakes, forests, and traditional Karelian culture.
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B.
Maitlis
Maitlis is the surname of Emily Maitlis, a prominent British journalist and former lead presenter of BBC Two’s flagship news program Newsnight.
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C.
Sista
Sista was a 1990s American R&B girl group best known for launching the early career of rapper and producer Missy Elliott.
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D.
Toinette
Toinette is the sharp-witted, outspoken maid in Molière’s comedy "Le Malade imaginaire," known for her clever schemes and satirical commentary on her hypochondriac master.
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E.
Latada
Latada is a traditional student festival at the University of Coimbra, marked by parades, music, and academic rituals celebrating the start of the academic year.
- 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: Litas Target entity description: Litas is the former official currency of Lithuania, used before the country adopted the euro.
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A.
Lemi
Lemi is a small rural municipality in southeastern Finland known for its lakes, forests, and traditional Karelian culture.
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B.
Maitlis
Maitlis is the surname of Emily Maitlis, a prominent British journalist and former lead presenter of BBC Two’s flagship news program Newsnight.
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C.
Sista
Sista was a 1990s American R&B girl group best known for launching the early career of rapper and producer Missy Elliott.
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D.
Toinette
Toinette is the sharp-witted, outspoken maid in Molière’s comedy "Le Malade imaginaire," known for her clever schemes and satirical commentary on her hypochondriac master.
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E.
Latada
Latada is a traditional student festival at the University of Coimbra, marked by parades, music, and academic rituals celebrating the start of the academic year.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fiat currency
ⓘ
former currency ⓘ |
| banknotesIssuedInDenominations |
10 litų
ⓘ
100 litų ⓘ 20 litų ⓘ 200 litų ⓘ 50 litų ⓘ 500 litų ⓘ |
| centralBank | Bank of Lithuania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coinsIssuedInDenominations |
1 centas
ⓘ
1 litas ⓘ 10 centų ⓘ 2 centai ⓘ 2 litai ⓘ 20 centų ⓘ 5 centai ⓘ 5 litai ⓘ 50 centų ⓘ |
| country | Lithuania ⓘ |
| currencyCode | LTL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| euroAdoptionDate | 2015-01-01 ⓘ |
| exchangeRateFixDate | 2002-02-02 ⓘ |
| fixedExchangeRateToEuro | 3.4528 LTL = 1 EUR ⓘ |
| introduced | 1922 ⓘ |
| ISO4217Code | LTL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| issuingAuthority | Bank of Lithuania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Lithuanian ⓘ |
| legalTenderUntil | 2015-01-01 ⓘ |
| minorUnitPluralForm | centai ⓘ |
| officialCurrencyOf | Lithuania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peggedTo | euro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pluralForm | litai ⓘ |
| previouslyPeggedTo | US dollar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Europe ⓘ |
| reintroduced | 1993 ⓘ |
| reintroducedAfter | collapse of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| replacedByCurrency |
Soviet rouble
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
euro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedCurrency |
Lithuanian rouble
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ostmark NERFINISHED ⓘ Ostruble ⓘ Russian rouble ⓘ |
| status | obsolete currency ⓘ |
| subunit | centas ⓘ |
| subunitToUnit | 100 centų per 1 litas ⓘ |
| symbol | Lt ⓘ |
| usedBeforeEuroAdoption | yes ⓘ |
| usedIn | Republic of Lithuania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Litas Description of subject: Litas is the former official currency of Lithuania, used before the country adopted the euro.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.