錢
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錢 is a common Chinese surname and character that literally means "money" and is often romanized as "Qian" or "Tsien."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 錢 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10305105 — 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: 錢 Context triple: [Tsien, transliterationOf, 錢]
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A.
gold yuan
The gold yuan was a short-lived Chinese currency introduced in 1948 during the late Republican era as part of an unsuccessful attempt to curb hyperinflation.
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B.
Yuan
Yuan is a common Chinese surname with historical roots and notable bearers in business, politics, and the arts.
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C.
Kaiyuan Tongbao cash coins
Kaiyuan Tongbao cash coins are early medieval Chinese bronze currency pieces first issued under Emperor Gaozu that became a standard model for later East Asian coinage.
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D.
Old Taiwan dollar
The Old Taiwan dollar was the former currency of Taiwan that was eventually superseded due to severe postwar inflation and monetary reform.
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E.
Renminbi banknotes
Renminbi banknotes are the official paper currency of the People’s Republic of China, notable for prominently featuring a portrait of Mao Zedong on most modern denominations.
- 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: 錢 Target entity description: 錢 is a common Chinese surname and character that literally means "money" and is often romanized as "Qian" or "Tsien."
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A.
gold yuan
The gold yuan was a short-lived Chinese currency introduced in 1948 during the late Republican era as part of an unsuccessful attempt to curb hyperinflation.
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B.
Yuan
Yuan is a common Chinese surname with historical roots and notable bearers in business, politics, and the arts.
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C.
Kaiyuan Tongbao cash coins
Kaiyuan Tongbao cash coins are early medieval Chinese bronze currency pieces first issued under Emperor Gaozu that became a standard model for later East Asian coinage.
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D.
Old Taiwan dollar
The Old Taiwan dollar was the former currency of Taiwan that was eventually superseded due to severe postwar inflation and monetary reform.
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E.
Renminbi banknotes
Renminbi banknotes are the official paper currency of the People’s Republic of China, notable for prominently featuring a portrait of Mao Zedong on most modern denominations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: 錢 Description of subject: 錢 is a common Chinese surname and character that literally means "money" and is often romanized as "Qian" or "Tsien."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.