Disable auto numbering in pandoc markdown

I have Markdown content that looks like this

(A) some text

(A) some more text

(A) and so on

I’m using pandoc to render this to PDF (pandoc -o test.pdf test.md). This produces content that turns the (A)‘s into an ordered list, with labels (A), (B), (C). I just want the literal (A) to be present three times in the output.

How can I disable the automatic list indexing functionality in pandoc markdown?