Yazoo land companies
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The Yazoo land companies were a group of speculative land corporations involved in a notorious late-18th-century scandal over the fraudulent sale of vast tracts of what is now Alabama and Mississippi by the state of Georgia.
All labels observed (1)
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| Yazoo land companies canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13960291 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yazoo land companies Context triple: [Yazoo land controversy resolution, participant, Yazoo land companies]
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A.
East Tennessee Land Company
East Tennessee Land Company was a late 19th-century real estate and development firm best known for planning and promoting the industrial utopian city of Harriman, Tennessee.
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B.
Connecticut Land Company
The Connecticut Land Company was a group of investors formed in the late 18th century to purchase and develop the Western Reserve in what is now northeastern Ohio.
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C.
Holland Land Company
The Holland Land Company was a Dutch-owned land investment and development firm that played a major role in surveying, selling, and settling large tracts of land in western New York and Pennsylvania in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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D.
The Caddo Company
The Caddo Company was an early 20th-century American film production company best known for backing influential pre-Code Hollywood films such as the original 1932 "Scarface."
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E.
Ohio Company of Associates
The Ohio Company of Associates was a land speculation and settlement company formed by Revolutionary War veterans that led the organized American colonization of the Northwest Territory in the late 18th century.
- 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: Yazoo land companies Target entity description: The Yazoo land companies were a group of speculative land corporations involved in a notorious late-18th-century scandal over the fraudulent sale of vast tracts of what is now Alabama and Mississippi by the state of Georgia.
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A.
East Tennessee Land Company
East Tennessee Land Company was a late 19th-century real estate and development firm best known for planning and promoting the industrial utopian city of Harriman, Tennessee.
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B.
Connecticut Land Company
The Connecticut Land Company was a group of investors formed in the late 18th century to purchase and develop the Western Reserve in what is now northeastern Ohio.
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C.
Holland Land Company
The Holland Land Company was a Dutch-owned land investment and development firm that played a major role in surveying, selling, and settling large tracts of land in western New York and Pennsylvania in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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D.
The Caddo Company
The Caddo Company was an early 20th-century American film production company best known for backing influential pre-Code Hollywood films such as the original 1932 "Scarface."
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E.
Ohio Company of Associates
The Ohio Company of Associates was a land speculation and settlement company formed by Revolutionary War veterans that led the organized American colonization of the Northwest Territory in the late 18th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.