Bangladeshi taka
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The Bangladeshi taka is the official monetary unit of Bangladesh, used for all domestic financial transactions and issued by the country's central bank.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bangladeshi taka canonical | 33 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T709031 — 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: Bangladeshi taka Context triple: [People's Republic of Bangladesh, currency, Bangladeshi taka]
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A.
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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B.
Nepalese rupee
The Nepalese rupee is the official monetary unit of Nepal, issued by the Nepal Rastra Bank and commonly used for all financial transactions in the country.
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C.
Myanmar kyat
The Myanmar kyat is the official monetary unit of Myanmar, used for everyday transactions and economic activities throughout the country.
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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.
Afghan afghani
The Afghan afghani is the official fiat currency of Afghanistan, issued and regulated by the country's central bank.
- 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: Bangladeshi taka Target entity description: The Bangladeshi taka is the official monetary unit of Bangladesh, used for all domestic financial transactions and issued by the country's central bank.
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A.
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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B.
Nepalese rupee
The Nepalese rupee is the official monetary unit of Nepal, issued by the Nepal Rastra Bank and commonly used for all financial transactions in the country.
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C.
Myanmar kyat
The Myanmar kyat is the official monetary unit of Myanmar, used for everyday transactions and economic activities throughout the country.
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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.
Afghan afghani
The Afghan afghani is the official fiat currency of Afghanistan, issued and regulated by the country's central bank.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fiat currency
ⓘ
legal tender ⓘ |
| banknoteDenominations |
10 taka
ⓘ
100 taka ⓘ 1000 taka ⓘ 2 taka ⓘ 20 taka ⓘ 200 taka ⓘ 5 taka ⓘ 50 taka ⓘ 500 taka ⓘ |
| centralBank | Bangladesh Bank ⓘ |
| coinDenominations |
1 taka
ⓘ
2 taka ⓘ 5 taka ⓘ |
| country | Bangladesh ⓘ |
| currencyOf | People's Republic of Bangladesh ⓘ |
| denominationType |
banknotes
ⓘ
coins ⓘ |
| frequentlyUsedBanknotes |
10 taka
ⓘ
100 taka ⓘ 1000 taka ⓘ 20 taka ⓘ 50 taka ⓘ 500 taka ⓘ |
| frequentlyUsedCoins |
1 taka
ⓘ
2 taka ⓘ 5 taka ⓘ |
| introduced | 1972 ⓘ |
| ISO4217Code | BDT ⓘ |
| issuingAuthority | Bangladesh Bank ⓘ |
| languageOnCurrency | Bengali ⓘ |
| legalTenderIn | Bangladesh ⓘ |
| localName | বাংলাদেশি টাকা ⓘ |
| monetaryAuthority | Bangladesh Bank ⓘ |
| officialCurrencyOf | Bangladesh ⓘ |
| pegged | no ⓘ |
| pluralForm | taka ⓘ |
| region | South Asia ⓘ |
| replacedCurrency | Pakistani rupee ⓘ |
| scriptOnCurrency | Bengali script ⓘ |
| subunit | paisa ⓘ |
| subunitToUnit | 100 paisa ⓘ |
| symbol | ৳ ⓘ |
| usedBy |
businesses in Bangladesh
ⓘ
residents of Bangladesh ⓘ |
| usedFor | domestic financial transactions ⓘ |
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: Bangladeshi taka Description of subject: The Bangladeshi taka is the official monetary unit of Bangladesh, used for all domestic financial transactions and issued by the country's central bank.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.