Myanmar kyat
E82023
The Myanmar kyat is the official monetary unit of Myanmar, used for everyday transactions and economic activities throughout the country.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Myanmar kyat canonical | 55 |
| Burmese kyat | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T655197 — 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: Myanmar kyat Context triple: [Myanmar, currency, Myanmar kyat]
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A.
Thai baht
The Thai baht is the official currency of Thailand, notable for its central role in triggering the 1997 Asian financial crisis after a sharp devaluation.
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B.
Malaysian ringgit
The Malaysian ringgit is the official currency of Malaysia, known for having been heavily affected by and subsequently managed through capital controls during the Asian financial crisis of 1997–1998.
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C.
Brunei dollar
The Brunei dollar is the official currency of Brunei Darussalam, issued by the Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam and maintained at parity with the Singapore dollar under a longstanding currency interchangeability agreement.
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D.
Straits dollar
The Straits dollar was a historical currency used in British-controlled territories in Southeast Asia, including parts of present-day Malaysia and Singapore, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Singapore dollar
The Singapore dollar is the official currency of Singapore, known for its stability, strong management by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and significant role as a major trading and reserve currency in Asia.
- 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: Myanmar kyat Target entity description: The Myanmar kyat is the official monetary unit of Myanmar, used for everyday transactions and economic activities throughout the country.
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A.
Thai baht
The Thai baht is the official currency of Thailand, notable for its central role in triggering the 1997 Asian financial crisis after a sharp devaluation.
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B.
Malaysian ringgit
The Malaysian ringgit is the official currency of Malaysia, known for having been heavily affected by and subsequently managed through capital controls during the Asian financial crisis of 1997–1998.
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C.
Brunei dollar
The Brunei dollar is the official currency of Brunei Darussalam, issued by the Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam and maintained at parity with the Singapore dollar under a longstanding currency interchangeability agreement.
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D.
Straits dollar
The Straits dollar was a historical currency used in British-controlled territories in Southeast Asia, including parts of present-day Malaysia and Singapore, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Singapore dollar
The Singapore dollar is the official currency of Singapore, known for its stability, strong management by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and significant role as a major trading and reserve currency in Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fiat currency
ⓘ
national currency ⓘ |
| category |
Asian currencies
ⓘ
currencies of Myanmar ⓘ |
| centralBank | Central Bank of Myanmar ⓘ |
| country | Myanmar ⓘ |
| currencyOf |
Republic of the Union of Myanmar
ⓘ
linked to:
Myanmar
|
| denominationType |
banknotes
ⓘ
coins ⓘ |
| exchangeRateRegime | managed float (de facto) ⓘ |
| hasInflation | yes ⓘ |
| introducedAsDecimalCurrency | 1952 ⓘ |
| ISO4217Code | MMK ⓘ |
| issuingAuthority | Central Bank of Myanmar ⓘ |
| legalTenderIn | Myanmar ⓘ |
| monetarySystem | decimal ⓘ |
| officialCurrencyOf | Myanmar ⓘ |
| region | Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| replaced | Burmese rupee ⓘ |
| status | legal tender ⓘ |
| subunit | pya ⓘ |
| subunitToUnit | 100 pya = 1 kyat ⓘ |
| symbol | K ⓘ |
| usedBy |
businesses in Myanmar
ⓘ
government of Myanmar ⓘ
linked to:
Government of Myanmar
residents of Myanmar ⓘ |
| usedFor |
economic activities
ⓘ
everyday transactions ⓘ |
| usedIn |
domestic trade in Myanmar
ⓘ
public sector payments in Myanmar ⓘ retail payments in Myanmar ⓘ |
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: Myanmar kyat Description of subject: The Myanmar kyat is the official monetary unit of Myanmar, used for everyday transactions and economic activities throughout the country.
Referenced by (58)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Myanmar kyat
linked to: Myanmar kyat
linked to: Myanmar kyat