Turkish lira
E84724
The Turkish lira is the official currency of Turkey, used for everyday transactions, banking, and pricing throughout the country.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Turkish lira canonical | 28 |
| new Turkish lira | 2 |
| Turkish lira (in the north) | 1 |
| Turkish lira (old) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T716726 — 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: Turkish lira Context triple: [Antalya, currency, Turkish lira]
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A.
Ottoman lira
The Ottoman lira was the principal monetary unit of the late Ottoman Empire, used from the mid-19th century until the empire’s dissolution in the early 20th century.
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B.
Kazakhstani tenge
The Kazakhstani tenge is the official currency of Kazakhstan, introduced after the country gained independence from the Soviet Union.
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C.
Dirham
The dirham is a historical silver coin and monetary unit widely used in the Islamic world, originating as a standard currency under early Muslim caliphates.
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D.
Palestine pound
The Palestine pound was the official currency used in the British-administered territory of Palestine during the first half of the 20th century, pegged to and modeled on the British pound sterling.
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E.
Syrian pound
The Syrian pound is the official monetary unit of Syria, issued by the Central Bank of Syria and subdivided into 100 piastres.
- 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: Turkish lira Target entity description: The Turkish lira is the official currency of Turkey, used for everyday transactions, banking, and pricing throughout the country.
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A.
Ottoman lira
The Ottoman lira was the principal monetary unit of the late Ottoman Empire, used from the mid-19th century until the empire’s dissolution in the early 20th century.
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B.
Kazakhstani tenge
The Kazakhstani tenge is the official currency of Kazakhstan, introduced after the country gained independence from the Soviet Union.
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C.
Dirham
The dirham is a historical silver coin and monetary unit widely used in the Islamic world, originating as a standard currency under early Muslim caliphates.
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D.
Palestine pound
The Palestine pound was the official currency used in the British-administered territory of Palestine during the first half of the 20th century, pegged to and modeled on the British pound sterling.
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E.
Syrian pound
The Syrian pound is the official monetary unit of Syria, issued by the Central Bank of Syria and subdivided into 100 piastres.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fiat currency
ⓘ
national currency ⓘ |
| alternativeSymbol | TL ⓘ |
| banknoteDenomination |
10 lira
ⓘ
100 lira ⓘ 20 lira ⓘ 200 lira ⓘ 5 lira ⓘ 50 lira ⓘ |
| centralBank |
Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
ⓘ
Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey ⓘ
surface form:
Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası
|
| coinDenomination |
1 kuruş
ⓘ
1 lira ⓘ 10 kuruş ⓘ 25 kuruş ⓘ 5 kuruş ⓘ 50 kuruş ⓘ |
| country | Turkey ⓘ |
| currencyOf |
Turkey
ⓘ
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ⓘ |
| currencyReform | redenomination in 2005 ⓘ |
| currencySignIntroduced | 2012 ⓘ |
| denominationSystem | decimal ⓘ |
| formerISO4217Code | TRY (new Turkish lira, 2005–2008) ⓘ |
| formerName |
Turkish lira
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
new Turkish lira
|
| hasCurrencySign | ₺ ⓘ |
| inflationCharacteristic | has experienced high inflation in the 21st century ⓘ |
| introduced | 1923 ⓘ |
| ISO4217Code | TRY ⓘ |
| language | Turkish ⓘ |
| legalTenderIn |
Turkey
ⓘ
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ⓘ |
| monetaryAuthority | Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey ⓘ |
| officialCurrencyOf |
Turkey
ⓘ
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ⓘ |
| peggedStatus | freely floating exchange rate ⓘ |
| redenominationDate | 1 January 2005 ⓘ |
| redenominationFactor | 1 new lira = 1,000,000 old lira ⓘ |
| region |
Europe
ⓘ
Middle East ⓘ |
| replacedCurrency | Ottoman lira ⓘ |
| subunit | kuruş ⓘ |
| subunitToUnit | 100 kuruş = 1 Turkish lira ⓘ |
| symbol | ₺ ⓘ |
| usedFor |
banking in Turkey
ⓘ
everyday transactions in Turkey ⓘ pricing of goods and services in Turkey ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Turkish financial markets
ⓘ
Turkish government budgeting ⓘ domestic pricing of exports and imports in Turkey ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
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: Turkish lira Description of subject: The Turkish lira is the official currency of Turkey, used for everyday transactions, banking, and pricing throughout the country.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Turkish lira (in the north)
this entity surface form:
new Turkish lira
subject surface form:
Lebanese pound
subject surface form:
municipality of Kağızman
this entity surface form:
Turkish lira (old)
this entity surface form:
new Turkish lira