lei
E862962
The leu (plural: lei) is the official currency of Romania, used for everyday transactions and financial operations throughout the country.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| lei canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10438046 — 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: lei Context triple: [RON, symbol, lei]
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A.
lev
The lev is the official national currency of Bulgaria, used for everyday transactions and financial operations throughout the country.
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B.
LER
LER is the vehicle registration code assigned to the German island municipality of Borkum.
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C.
Le
Le is a common Vietnamese surname shared by many notable figures in the country’s history and culture.
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D.
LEE
LEE is the stock ticker symbol for Lee Enterprises, a U.S.-based media company that owns and operates numerous local newspapers and digital news platforms.
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E.
LI
LI is the Roman numeral representing the number 51.
- 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: lei Target entity description: The leu (plural: lei) is the official currency of Romania, used for everyday transactions and financial operations throughout the country.
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A.
lev
The lev is the official national currency of Bulgaria, used for everyday transactions and financial operations throughout the country.
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B.
LER
LER is the vehicle registration code assigned to the German island municipality of Borkum.
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C.
Le
Le is a common Vietnamese surname shared by many notable figures in the country’s history and culture.
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D.
LEE
LEE is the stock ticker symbol for Lee Enterprises, a U.S.-based media company that owns and operates numerous local newspapers and digital news platforms.
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E.
LI
LI is the Roman numeral representing the number 51.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fiat currency ⓘ |
| redenominationRatioOldToNew | 10000 ⓘ |
| banknoteDenomination |
1 leu
ⓘ
10 lei ⓘ 100 lei ⓘ 200 lei ⓘ 5 lei ⓘ 50 lei ⓘ 500 lei ⓘ |
| centralBank | National Bank of Romania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coinDenomination |
1 ban
ⓘ
10 bani ⓘ 5 bani ⓘ 50 bani ⓘ |
| country | Romania ⓘ |
| currencySymbol |
RON
ⓘ
lei ⓘ |
| currentISOCodeEffectiveFrom | 2005 ⓘ |
| currentSeries | fourth leu ⓘ |
| introduced | 1867 ⓘ |
| isDecimalCurrency | true ⓘ |
| ISO4217Code | RON NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Romanian ⓘ |
| legalStatus | legal tender ⓘ |
| legalTenderIn | Romania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monetaryAuthority | National Bank of Romania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monetarySystem | Romanian monetary system ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | lion ⓘ |
| officialCurrencyOf | Romania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pluralForm | lei ⓘ |
| region | Europe ⓘ |
| replacedCurrency | Romanian piastre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| singularForm | leu ⓘ |
| subunit | ban ⓘ |
| subunitPlural | bani ⓘ |
| subunitSingular | ban ⓘ |
| subunitToUnitRatio | 100 ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Romanian businesses
ⓘ
Romanian government NERFINISHED ⓘ Romanian residents ⓘ |
| usedFor |
bank transfers
ⓘ
cash payments ⓘ electronic payments ⓘ everyday transactions ⓘ financial operations ⓘ pricing of goods and services ⓘ |
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: lei Description of subject: The leu (plural: lei) is the official currency of Romania, used for everyday transactions and financial operations throughout the country.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.