VOC
E3954
VOC is the abbreviation for the Dutch East India Company, a powerful 17th-century trading corporation that dominated European-Asian maritime trade and helped shape early global capitalism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| VOC canonical | 12 |
| VOC chambers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T50574 — 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: VOC Context triple: [Dutch East India Company, shortName, VOC]
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A.
Revs
Revs is the commonly used nickname for the New England Revolution, a professional Major League Soccer club based in the Greater Boston area.
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TEC
TEC is the commonly used acronym for the Episcopal Church, a mainline Anglican Christian denomination based in the United States.
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C.
DCA
DCA is the three-letter IATA airport code for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the primary domestic airport serving Washington, D.C.
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CCC
The CCC, or Civilian Conservation Corps, was a New Deal work relief program in the United States during the 1930s and early 1940s that employed young men in conservation and public works projects such as reforestation, park development, and soil erosion control.
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E.
ARC
ARC is the commonly used acronym for the Augmentation Research Center, a pioneering research group known for its early work on interactive computing and human–computer interaction.
- 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: VOC Target entity description: VOC is the abbreviation for the Dutch East India Company, a powerful 17th-century trading corporation that dominated European-Asian maritime trade and helped shape early global capitalism.
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A.
Voyager KC2
Voyager KC2 is an Airbus A330-based multi-role tanker transport aircraft used by the Royal Air Force for air-to-air refuelling and strategic airlift operations.
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B.
Revs
Revs is the commonly used nickname for the New England Revolution, a professional Major League Soccer club based in the Greater Boston area.
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C.
TEC
TEC is the commonly used acronym for the Episcopal Church, a mainline Anglican Christian denomination based in the United States.
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D.
Boric
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DCA
DCA is the three-letter IATA airport code for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the primary domestic airport serving Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chartered company
ⓘ
colonial company ⓘ trading company ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf |
Dutch East India Company
ⓘ
surface form:
Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie
|
| assetsTakenOverBy | Batavian Republic ⓘ |
| charteredBy | States General of the Netherlands ⓘ |
| country | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| currencyUsed |
ducat
ⓘ
Dutch guilder ⓘ
surface form:
rijksdaalder
|
| declinePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| dissolutionDate | 1799 ⓘ |
| engagedIn |
colonial expansion
ⓘ
naval warfare ⓘ slave trade ⓘ |
| foundedCity | Batavia ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1602 ⓘ |
| fullName |
Dutch East India Company
ⓘ
surface form:
Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie
|
| fullNameInEnglish | Dutch East India Company ⓘ |
| grantedRight |
administer justice
ⓘ
build forts ⓘ coin money ⓘ conclude treaties ⓘ establish colonies ⓘ wage war ⓘ |
| hasMonopolyOn | Dutch trade with Asia ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Amsterdam ⓘ |
| influenced | development of the Amsterdam stock exchange ⓘ |
| legalStatus | joint-stock company ⓘ |
| mainIndustry |
maritime trade
ⓘ
spice trade ⓘ |
| majorBase |
Batavia
ⓘ
Cape Colony ⓘ Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon) ⓘ
surface form:
Ceylon
Coromandel Coast ⓘ Deshima ⓘ Formosa ⓘ Malabar Coast ⓘ |
| monopolyInCountry |
Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon)
ⓘ
surface form:
Ceylon
Indonesia ⓘ Japan ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first companies to issue shares to the public
ⓘ
being one of the first multinational corporations ⓘ contributing to the development of global capitalism ⓘ playing a major role in early modern global trade ⓘ |
| operatedInRegion |
East Asia
ⓘ
Indian Ocean ⓘ Indian subcontinent ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| presentDayLocationOfBatavia |
Batavia
ⓘ
surface form:
Jakarta
|
| primaryShareTradingCity | Amsterdam ⓘ |
| reasonForDecline |
corruption
ⓘ
high military costs ⓘ rising competition from other European powers ⓘ |
| successor | Dutch state colonial administration in the East Indies ⓘ |
| tradedProduct |
cloves
ⓘ
coffee ⓘ nutmeg ⓘ pepper ⓘ porcelain ⓘ silk ⓘ spices ⓘ tea ⓘ textiles ⓘ |
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: VOC Description of subject: VOC is the abbreviation for the Dutch East India Company, a powerful 17th-century trading corporation that dominated European-Asian maritime trade and helped shape early global capitalism.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
VOC chambers