Triple

T19613805
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Royal Niger Company E470804 entity
Predicate renamedAs P65 FINISHED
Object Royal Niger Company 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: Royal Niger Company | Statement: [Royal Niger Company, renamedAs, Royal Niger Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Royal Niger Company
Context triple: [Royal Niger Company, renamedAs, Royal Niger Company]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Compagnie royale d’Afrique
    Compagnie royale d’Afrique was a French chartered trading company active in North Africa, involved in commerce and colonial expansion during the Ancien Régime.
  • E. 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.
  • 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.