Nootka Trading Company
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Nootka Trading Company is a fictional 19th-century British trading enterprise central to the plot of the television series "Taboo," in which James Keziah Delaney seeks to reclaim and control it.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nootka Trading Company canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11237129 — 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: Nootka Trading Company Context triple: [James Keziah Delaney, associatedWith, Nootka Trading Company]
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A.
Russian-American Company
The Russian-American Company was a state-sponsored chartered company that managed and profited from the Russian Empire’s colonial and fur-trading activities in North America, particularly in Alaska, during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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B.
North West Company
North West Company was a major Canadian fur trading enterprise that rivaled the Hudson’s Bay Company in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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C.
Swedish South Company
The Swedish South Company was a 17th-century Swedish trading company that organized and managed Sweden’s short-lived colonial ventures in North America, particularly in the Delaware Valley.
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D.
Pacific Fur Company
The Pacific Fur Company was an early 19th-century American fur-trading enterprise backed by John Jacob Astor that played a key role in the commercial and territorial expansion of the Pacific Northwest.
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E.
Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company
The Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company was a 19th-century fur trading enterprise involved in the early commercial exploitation and settlement of the Pacific Northwest.
- 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: Nootka Trading Company Target entity description: Nootka Trading Company is a fictional 19th-century British trading enterprise central to the plot of the television series "Taboo," in which James Keziah Delaney seeks to reclaim and control it.
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A.
Russian-American Company
The Russian-American Company was a state-sponsored chartered company that managed and profited from the Russian Empire’s colonial and fur-trading activities in North America, particularly in Alaska, during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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B.
North West Company
North West Company was a major Canadian fur trading enterprise that rivaled the Hudson’s Bay Company in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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C.
Swedish South Company
The Swedish South Company was a 17th-century Swedish trading company that organized and managed Sweden’s short-lived colonial ventures in North America, particularly in the Delaware Valley.
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D.
Pacific Fur Company
The Pacific Fur Company was an early 19th-century American fur-trading enterprise backed by John Jacob Astor that played a key role in the commercial and territorial expansion of the Pacific Northwest.
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E.
Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company
The Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company was a 19th-century fur trading enterprise involved in the early commercial exploitation and settlement of the Pacific Northwest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
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: Nootka Trading Company Description of subject: Nootka Trading Company is a fictional 19th-century British trading enterprise central to the plot of the television series "Taboo," in which James Keziah Delaney seeks to reclaim and control it.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
James Keziah Delaney in Taboo