Danish West India Company
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The Danish West India Company was a chartered trading company of the Kingdom of Denmark–Norway that administered and profited from colonial possessions in the Caribbean, particularly in what became the Danish West Indies.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Danish West India Company canonical | 2 |
| Danish West India–Guinea Company | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T666752 — 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.
Target entity: Danish West India Company Context triple: [Fort Christian, builtBy, Danish West India Company]
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Dutch West India Company
The Dutch West India Company was a powerful 17th-century chartered company of the Dutch Republic that dominated Atlantic trade, including sugar, slaves, and colonial enterprises in the Americas and West Africa.
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Muscovy Company
The Muscovy Company was a 16th-century English trading company that pioneered commerce and exploration between England and Russia and helped open northern sea routes.
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C.
Dutch East India Company
The Dutch East India Company was a powerful 17th–18th century chartered trading corporation that dominated Dutch colonial trade in Asia and is often considered the world’s first multinational company and first issuer of stock.
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D.
Royal African Company
The Royal African Company was a 17th- and 18th-century English trading company that held a monopoly over British trade on the West African coast, playing a central role in the transatlantic slave trade.
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E.
Virginia Company of London
The Virginia Company of London was an English joint-stock company chartered in the early 17th century to finance and establish settlements in North America, most notably the Jamestown colony in Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Danish West India Company Target entity description: The Danish West India Company was a chartered trading company of the Kingdom of Denmark–Norway that administered and profited from colonial possessions in the Caribbean, particularly in what became the Danish West Indies.
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A.
Dutch West India Company
The Dutch West India Company was a powerful 17th-century chartered company of the Dutch Republic that dominated Atlantic trade, including sugar, slaves, and colonial enterprises in the Americas and West Africa.
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B.
Muscovy Company
The Muscovy Company was a 16th-century English trading company that pioneered commerce and exploration between England and Russia and helped open northern sea routes.
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C.
Dutch East India Company
The Dutch East India Company was a powerful 17th–18th century chartered trading corporation that dominated Dutch colonial trade in Asia and is often considered the world’s first multinational company and first issuer of stock.
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D.
Royal African Company
The Royal African Company was a 17th- and 18th-century English trading company that held a monopoly over British trade on the West African coast, playing a central role in the transatlantic slave trade.
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E.
Virginia Company of London
The Virginia Company of London was an English joint-stock company chartered in the early 17th century to finance and establish settlements in North America, most notably the Jamestown colony in Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chartered trading company
ⓘ
colonial company ⓘ |
| administered |
U.S. Virgin Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
Danish West Indies
Saint Croix ⓘ Saint John ⓘ Saint Thomas ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Copenhagen merchants
ⓘ
U.S. Virgin Islands ⓘ
surface form:
Danish West Indies
Denmark–Norway ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Denmark–Norway
|
| charteredBy |
Danish krone
ⓘ
surface form:
Danish crown
Denmark–Norway ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Denmark–Norway
|
| colonialPowerOf |
U.S. Virgin Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
Danish West Indies
|
| country |
Denmark–Norway
ⓘ
Denmark–Norway ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Denmark–Norway
|
| engagedIn | triangular trade ⓘ |
| governedBy | company-appointed governors ⓘ |
| hasColony |
Saint Croix
ⓘ
Saint John ⓘ St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Thomas
|
| hasHistoricalRole |
European colonization of the Caribbean
ⓘ
sugar plantation economy in the Caribbean ⓘ transatlantic slave trade ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Copenhagen ⓘ |
| industry |
colonial administration
ⓘ
slave trade ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod |
age of colonialism
ⓘ
age of sail ⓘ early modern period ⓘ |
| mainActivity |
Atlantic slave trade
ⓘ
plantation management ⓘ sugar trade ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Caribbean
ⓘ
U.S. Virgin Islands ⓘ
surface form:
Danish West Indies
|
| operatedUnder | Danish crown monopoly ⓘ |
| partOf | Danish colonial empire ⓘ |
| profitFrom |
colonial trade
ⓘ
plantation slavery ⓘ sugar plantations ⓘ |
| region | Caribbean Sea ⓘ |
| subjectTo | Danish royal charter ⓘ |
| territoryBecame |
U.S. Virgin Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Virgin Islands
|
| transported | enslaved Africans ⓘ |
| typeOfEnterprise | joint-stock company ⓘ |
| usedCurrency | Danish rigsdaler ⓘ |
| usedLanguage | Danish ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Danish West India Company Description of subject: The Danish West India Company was a chartered trading company of the Kingdom of Denmark–Norway that administered and profited from colonial possessions in the Caribbean, particularly in what became the Danish West Indies.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.