kip
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The kip is the official national currency of Laos.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| kip canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7396929 — 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: kip Context triple: [Royal Lao Government, usedCurrency, kip]
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A.
Skip
Skip is the nickname of Skip Caray, the longtime Atlanta Braves broadcaster known for his distinctive voice and witty play-by-play commentary.
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B.
Sk
Sk is the currency symbol that was used to denote the Slovak koruna, the former national currency of Slovakia before adoption of the euro.
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C.
kes
Kes is the title given to the traditional religious leaders and priests of the Ethiopian Jewish (Beta Israel) community.
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D.
Kick
Kick is a live-streaming platform focused on gaming and creator-friendly revenue sharing, positioned as an alternative to Twitch.
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E.
Kick
Kick was the affectionate nickname of Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish, the socially prominent and charismatic sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
- 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: kip Target entity description: The kip is the official national currency of Laos.
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A.
Skip
Skip is the nickname of Skip Caray, the longtime Atlanta Braves broadcaster known for his distinctive voice and witty play-by-play commentary.
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B.
Sk
Sk is the currency symbol that was used to denote the Slovak koruna, the former national currency of Slovakia before adoption of the euro.
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C.
kes
Kes is the title given to the traditional religious leaders and priests of the Ethiopian Jewish (Beta Israel) community.
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D.
Kick
Kick was the affectionate nickname of Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish, the socially prominent and charismatic sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
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E.
Kick
Kick is a live-streaming platform focused on gaming and creator-friendly revenue sharing, positioned as an alternative to Twitch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
currency
ⓘ
fiat currency ⓘ |
| centralBank | Bank of the Lao P.D.R. ⓘ |
| country | Laos ⓘ |
| denominationSubunitName | att ⓘ |
| frequentlyUsedBanknotes |
1000 kip
ⓘ
10000 kip ⓘ 100000 kip ⓘ 2000 kip ⓘ 20000 kip ⓘ 500 kip ⓘ 5000 kip ⓘ 50000 kip ⓘ |
| hasLocalName | kip ⓘ |
| hasLocalPluralName | ກີບ ⓘ |
| hasPluralName | kips ⓘ |
| introduced | 1952 ⓘ |
| ISO4217Code | LAK ⓘ |
| ISOExponent | 2 ⓘ |
| ISONumber | 418 ⓘ |
| issuingAuthority | Bank of the Lao P.D.R. ⓘ |
| legalTenderIn | Laos ⓘ |
| monetaryAuthority | Bank of the Lao P.D.R. ⓘ |
| officialCurrencyOf | Laos ⓘ |
| rarelyUsedBanknotes |
1 kip
ⓘ
10 kip ⓘ 100 kip ⓘ 20 kip ⓘ 200 kip ⓘ 5 kip ⓘ 50 kip ⓘ 500 kip ⓘ |
| rarelyUsedCoins |
10 att
ⓘ
20 att ⓘ 50 att ⓘ |
| region | Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| replacedCurrency |
French Indochinese piastre
ⓘ
linked to:
piastre of French Indochina
|
| subunit | att ⓘ |
| subunitToUnitRatio | 100 ⓘ |
| symbol | ₭ ⓘ |
| usedFor | domestic transactions in Laos ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
ⓘ
linked to:
Laos
|
| writtenInLocalScript | ກີບ ⓘ |
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: kip Description of subject: The kip is the official national currency of Laos.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.