West African CFA franc
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The West African CFA franc is a regional currency used by several West African countries, issued by the Central Bank of West African States and pegged to the euro.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| West African CFA franc canonical | 45 |
| CFA franc (Guinean use) | 1 |
| FCFA | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T540233 — 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: West African CFA franc Context triple: [West Africa, hasCurrency, West African CFA franc]
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A.
Central African CFA franc
The Central African CFA franc is a regional currency used by several Central African countries, including Gabon, and is guaranteed by the French Treasury.
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B.
Congolese franc
The Congolese franc is the official monetary unit used in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for all financial and commercial transactions.
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C.
African Monetary Union
The African Monetary Union is a proposed initiative to create a single continental currency and unified monetary policy for member states of the African Union.
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D.
Ghanaian cedi
The Ghanaian cedi is the official national currency of Ghana, used for everyday transactions and monetary policy in the country.
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E.
Liberian dollar
The Liberian dollar is the official monetary unit of Liberia, used alongside the U.S. dollar in the country’s dual-currency economy.
- 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: West African CFA franc Target entity description: The West African CFA franc is a regional currency used by several West African countries, issued by the Central Bank of West African States and pegged to the euro.
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A.
Central African CFA franc
The Central African CFA franc is a regional currency used by several Central African countries, including Gabon, and is guaranteed by the French Treasury.
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B.
Congolese franc
The Congolese franc is the official monetary unit used in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for all financial and commercial transactions.
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C.
African Monetary Union
The African Monetary Union is a proposed initiative to create a single continental currency and unified monetary policy for member states of the African Union.
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D.
Ghanaian cedi
The Ghanaian cedi is the official national currency of Ghana, used for everyday transactions and monetary policy in the country.
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E.
Liberian dollar
The Liberian dollar is the official monetary unit of Liberia, used alongside the U.S. dollar in the country’s dual-currency economy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: West African CFA franc Description of subject: The West African CFA franc is a regional currency used by several West African countries, issued by the Central Bank of West African States and pegged to the euro.
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
XOF
this entity surface form:
CFA franc (Guinean use)