Triple
T1456575
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | French East India Company |
E31413
|
entity |
| Predicate | mergedWith |
P77
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
French West India Company
The French West India Company was a 17th-century French chartered company that held a royal monopoly over trade and colonization in parts of the Caribbean and the Americas.
|
E166599
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (4 steps)
Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.
NER
Named-entity recognition
gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: French West India Company | Statement: [French East India Company, mergedWith, French West India Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: French West India Company Context triple: [French East India Company, mergedWith, French West India Company]
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A.
French East India Company
The French East India Company was a royal chartered trading company established by France in the 17th century to conduct commerce and expand French influence in India and the wider Indian Ocean region.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Danish West India Company
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg
Description generation
gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. # Instructions Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: French West India Company Triple: [French East India Company, mergedWith, French West India Company]
Generated description
The French West India Company was a 17th-century French chartered company that held a royal monopoly over trade and colonization in parts of the Caribbean and the Americas.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: French West India Company Target entity description: The French West India Company was a 17th-century French chartered company that held a royal monopoly over trade and colonization in parts of the Caribbean and the Americas.
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A.
French East India Company
The French East India Company was a royal chartered trading company established by France in the 17th century to conduct commerce and expand French influence in India and the wider Indian Ocean region.
-
B.
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.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
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.
-
E.
Danish West India Company
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (5 batches)
The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.
| Step | Stage | Batch ID | Status | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| creating | Elicitation | batch_69a49917dfc081909acdbdf5d684f1ef |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4c598b30c8190b87207adf608b89a |
completed | March 1, 2026, 11:02 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ad0e746b64819091079ff26a60a12e |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:51 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ad0ef49014819090feb507a6c04eb4 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:53 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ad0f5240b88190b515f811c849c841 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:55 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8 p.m.