Triple
T19613804
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Royal Niger Company |
E470804
|
entity |
| Predicate | renamedAs |
P65
|
FINISHED |
| Object | National African Company |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: National African Company | Statement: [Royal Niger Company, renamedAs, National African Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: National African Company Context triple: [Royal Niger Company, renamedAs, National African Company]
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A.
United African Company
The United African Company was a British trading enterprise that played a major role in commercial and colonial activities in West Africa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Royal Niger Company
chosen
The Royal Niger Company was a British chartered company that controlled trade and administered large parts of the Niger River region in the late 19th century, laying groundwork for the eventual formation of colonial Nigeria.
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C.
Brandenburg African Company
The Brandenburg African Company was a 17th–18th century Prussian chartered trading company that operated on the West African coast, engaging primarily in the gold and slave trades.
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D.
British South Africa Company
The British South Africa Company was a chartered company founded by Cecil Rhodes that administered and exploited large areas of southern and central Africa, notably in territories that became Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Sierra Leone Company
The Sierra Leone Company was a British philanthropic and commercial organization that established and governed the early Freetown colony in West Africa as a settlement for freed Black people in the late 18th century.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8e510fa248190b7afb274a1d4cf73 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:54 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e640ce272481909688527f72d2c976 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 3:05 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:43 p.m.