Oakes & Co., Madras
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Oakes & Co., Madras was a prominent colonial-era clockmaking and watchmaking firm based in Madras (now Chennai), known for supplying high-quality public clocks and timepieces to major buildings and institutions in South India.
All labels observed (1)
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| Oakes & Co., Madras canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15400231 — 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: Oakes & Co., Madras Context triple: [Ripon Building, Chennai, clockManufacturer, Oakes & Co., Madras]
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T. T. Krishnamachari & Co.
T. T. Krishnamachari & Co. is an Indian financial and investment firm established by prominent politician and industrialist T. T. Krishnamachari.
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B.
West India Goods Store
The West India Goods Store is a historic mercantile shop in Salem, Massachusetts, interpreting the 18th- and 19th-century trade in imported goods from the Caribbean and beyond as part of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site.
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C.
Calcutta Corporation
Calcutta Corporation is the municipal governing body responsible for administering and managing civic infrastructure and services in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India.
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D.
Corporation of Madras
The Corporation of Madras was the historic municipal governing body of the city of Madras (now Chennai), recognized as one of the oldest city corporations in India and the Commonwealth.
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E.
Harishchandrachi Factory
Harishchandrachi Factory is a Marathi-language biographical film that portrays the making of India’s first full-length feature film by Dadasaheb Phalke.
- 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: Oakes & Co., Madras Target entity description: Oakes & Co., Madras was a prominent colonial-era clockmaking and watchmaking firm based in Madras (now Chennai), known for supplying high-quality public clocks and timepieces to major buildings and institutions in South India.
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A.
T. T. Krishnamachari & Co.
T. T. Krishnamachari & Co. is an Indian financial and investment firm established by prominent politician and industrialist T. T. Krishnamachari.
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B.
West India Goods Store
The West India Goods Store is a historic mercantile shop in Salem, Massachusetts, interpreting the 18th- and 19th-century trade in imported goods from the Caribbean and beyond as part of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site.
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C.
Calcutta Corporation
Calcutta Corporation is the municipal governing body responsible for administering and managing civic infrastructure and services in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India.
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D.
Corporation of Madras
The Corporation of Madras was the historic municipal governing body of the city of Madras (now Chennai), recognized as one of the oldest city corporations in India and the Commonwealth.
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E.
Harishchandrachi Factory
Harishchandrachi Factory is a Marathi-language biographical film that portrays the making of India’s first full-length feature film by Dadasaheb Phalke.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.