Tunisian franc
E88334
The Tunisian franc was the former national currency of Tunisia used before the adoption of the Tunisian dinar.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tunisian franc canonical | 5 |
| Tunisian franc (in Tripolitania) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T721766 — 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: Tunisian franc Context triple: [Tunisian dinar, replacedCurrency, Tunisian franc]
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A.
Tunisian dinar
The Tunisian dinar is the official monetary unit of Tunisia, subdivided into 1,000 millimes and used for all domestic financial transactions.
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B.
Algerian dinar
The Algerian dinar is the official monetary unit of Algeria, issued and regulated by the Bank of Algeria.
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C.
Moroccan dirham
The Moroccan dirham is the official monetary unit of Morocco, used for everyday transactions and issued by the country's central bank.
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D.
Mauritanian ouguiya
The Mauritanian ouguiya is the official monetary unit of Mauritania, used for all everyday transactions and financial operations in the country.
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E.
Djiboutian franc
The Djiboutian franc is the official monetary unit of Djibouti, a small East African nation strategically located on the Horn of Africa.
- 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: Tunisian franc Target entity description: The Tunisian franc was the former national currency of Tunisia used before the adoption of the Tunisian dinar.
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A.
Tunisian dinar
The Tunisian dinar is the official monetary unit of Tunisia, subdivided into 1,000 millimes and used for all domestic financial transactions.
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B.
Algerian dinar
The Algerian dinar is the official monetary unit of Algeria, issued and regulated by the Bank of Algeria.
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C.
Moroccan dirham
The Moroccan dirham is the official monetary unit of Morocco, used for everyday transactions and issued by the country's central bank.
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D.
Mauritanian ouguiya
The Mauritanian ouguiya is the official monetary unit of Mauritania, used for all everyday transactions and financial operations in the country.
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E.
Djiboutian franc
The Djiboutian franc is the official monetary unit of Djibouti, a small East African nation strategically located on the Horn of Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former currency
ⓘ
historical currency ⓘ |
| basedOn |
French franc
ⓘ
linked to:
French franc (Latin Monetary Union)
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| country | Tunisia ⓘ |
| currencyOf | Tunisia ⓘ |
| denominationType |
banknote
ⓘ
coin ⓘ |
| formerNationalCurrencyOf | Tunisia ⓘ |
| historicalUse | pre-dinar era in Tunisia ⓘ |
| ISO4217Status | withdrawn ⓘ |
| monetarySystem | decimal ⓘ |
| region | North Africa ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Tunisian dinar ⓘ |
| status | obsolete ⓘ |
| subunit | centime ⓘ |
| successorCurrency | Tunisian dinar ⓘ |
| usedBefore | Tunisian dinar ⓘ |
| usedFor |
payments
ⓘ
pricing of goods and services ⓘ |
| usedIn | Tunisia ⓘ |
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: Tunisian franc Description of subject: The Tunisian franc was the former national currency of Tunisia used before the adoption of the Tunisian dinar.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tunisian franc