Yen
E818416
Yen is the Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname commonly spelled "Yan" in pinyin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yen canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9712148 — 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: Yen Context triple: [Yan (surname), hasWadeGilesRomanization, Yen]
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A.
Yen
Yen is a nimble and acrobatic member of Danny Ocean’s heist crew in the Ocean’s film series, renowned for his contortionist skills.
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B.
Japanese yen
The Japanese yen is Japan's official fiat currency and one of the world's most traded reserve currencies in global foreign exchange markets.
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C.
Yuan
Yuan is a common Chinese surname with historical roots and notable bearers in business, politics, and the arts.
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D.
Chinese yuan
The Chinese yuan is the official currency of the People's Republic of China and one of the world's major reserve and trading currencies.
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E.
Indonesian rupiah
The Indonesian rupiah is the official currency of Indonesia, known for experiencing severe devaluation during the late-1990s Asian financial crisis.
- 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: Yen Target entity description: Yen is the Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname commonly spelled "Yan" in pinyin.
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A.
Yen
Yen is a nimble and acrobatic member of Danny Ocean’s heist crew in the Ocean’s film series, renowned for his contortionist skills.
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B.
Japanese yen
The Japanese yen is Japan's official fiat currency and one of the world's most traded reserve currencies in global foreign exchange markets.
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C.
Yuan
Yuan is a common Chinese surname with historical roots and notable bearers in business, politics, and the arts.
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D.
Chinese yuan
The Chinese yuan is the official currency of the People's Republic of China and one of the world's major reserve and trading currencies.
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E.
Indonesian rupiah
The Indonesian rupiah is the official currency of Indonesia, known for experiencing severe devaluation during the late-1990s Asian financial crisis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Chinese surname ⓘ |
| category |
Chinese-language surnames
ⓘ
Surnames of Chinese origin ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | Hanyu Pinyin ⓘ |
| correspondsToPinyin | Yan ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
Yan
ⓘ
Yeh ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Chinese ⓘ |
| orthographicFeature | initial Y- in pinyin often rendered as Y- or left implicit in Wade–Giles ⓘ |
| pinyinSpelling | Yan ⓘ |
| romanizationOf |
Yan (surname)
ⓘ
linked to:
Chinese surname Yan
|
| romanizationOfDialect | Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| romanizationSystem | Wade–Giles ⓘ |
| romanizesSurname |
嚴
ⓘ
燕 ⓘ 甄 ⓘ 鄢 ⓘ 閻 ⓘ 顏 ⓘ |
| scriptOfOrigin | Chinese characters ⓘ |
| transliterationStandard |
Wade–Giles romanization
ⓘ
linked to:
Wade–Giles
|
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
| usedFor | transcribing Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Hong Kong
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
Taiwan (historically) ⓘ
linked to:
Taiwan, Province of China
overseas Chinese communities ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Yen Description of subject: Yen is the Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname commonly spelled "Yan" in pinyin.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.