Companies House
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Companies House is the United Kingdom’s official registrar of companies, responsible for incorporating and dissolving companies and making corporate information publicly available.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Companies House canonical | 3 |
| Companies House Service | 1 |
| Registrar of Joint Stock Companies | 1 |
| https://www.companieshouse.gov.uk | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5345188 — 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: Companies House Context triple: [Department of Trade and Industry, oversaw, Companies House]
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A.
Charity Commission for England and Wales
The Charity Commission for England and Wales is the non-ministerial government department responsible for regulating and registering charities in England and Wales and ensuring they comply with charity law.
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B.
Sky UK Limited
Sky UK Limited is a major British telecommunications and media company best known for its satellite television, broadband, and streaming services across the UK and Europe.
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C.
Associated British Corporation
Associated British Corporation was a British television production company and broadcaster active in the mid-20th century, known for producing influential drama and entertainment programming.
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D.
Reach plc
Reach plc is a major British newspaper and digital publisher that owns and operates numerous national and regional media brands across the UK, including the Daily Mirror.
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E.
General Register Office for England and Wales
The General Register Office for England and Wales is the government body responsible for civil registration of births, deaths, marriages, and other vital records in England and Wales.
- 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: Companies House Target entity description: Companies House is the United Kingdom’s official registrar of companies, responsible for incorporating and dissolving companies and making corporate information publicly available.
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A.
Charity Commission for England and Wales
The Charity Commission for England and Wales is the non-ministerial government department responsible for regulating and registering charities in England and Wales and ensuring they comply with charity law.
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B.
Sky UK Limited
Sky UK Limited is a major British telecommunications and media company best known for its satellite television, broadband, and streaming services across the UK and Europe.
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C.
Associated British Corporation
Associated British Corporation was a British television production company and broadcaster active in the mid-20th century, known for producing influential drama and entertainment programming.
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D.
Reach plc
Reach plc is a major British newspaper and digital publisher that owns and operates numerous national and regional media brands across the UK, including the Daily Mirror.
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E.
General Register Office for England and Wales
The General Register Office for England and Wales is the government body responsible for civil registration of births, deaths, marriages, and other vital records in England and Wales.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company register
ⓘ
executive agency ⓘ government agency ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dataAvailableAs | open data ⓘ |
| follows |
Companies Act 1948
ⓘ
Companies Act 1985 ⓘ Companies Act 2006 ⓘ |
| foundedByStatute | Joint Stock Companies Act 1844 ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | CH ⓘ |
| hasOffice |
Belfast
ⓘ
Cardiff ⓘ Edinburgh ⓘ London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| headquartersLocation |
Cardiff
ⓘ
Wales ⓘ |
| inception | 1844 ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
Welsh ⓘ |
| legalForm | executive agency ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Europe/London ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
England
ⓘ
Northern Ireland ⓘ Scotland ⓘ Wales ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
UK Government
ⓘ
linked to:
UK government
|
| parentOrganization | Department for Business and Trade ⓘ |
| partOf |
UK central government
ⓘ
linked to:
UK government
|
| predecessor |
Registrar of Joint Stock Companies
ⓘ
linked to:
Companies House
|
| publishes |
company accounts
ⓘ
company filings ⓘ company officer information ⓘ persons with significant control data ⓘ |
| replacedService | WebCHeck ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
company dissolution
ⓘ
company incorporation ⓘ company registration ⓘ maintenance of company register ⓘ public disclosure of company information ⓘ registration of company accounts ⓘ registration of company charges ⓘ registration of company directors ⓘ registration of confirmation statements ⓘ registration of persons with significant control ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| usesSystem |
Companies House Service
ⓘ
linked to:
Companies House
|
| website |
https://www.companieshouse.gov.uk
ⓘ
linked to:
Companies House
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/companies-house ⓘ |
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: Companies House Description of subject: Companies House is the United Kingdom’s official registrar of companies, responsible for incorporating and dissolving companies and making corporate information publicly available.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Companies House
linked to: Companies House
linked to: Companies House