Triple
T2194568
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Company |
E49940
|
entity |
| Predicate | refersToFullName |
P32965
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies |
E8918
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies | Statement: [John Company, refersToFullName, Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies Context triple: [John Company, refersToFullName, Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies]
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A.
British East India Company
chosen
The British East India Company was a powerful English trading corporation that dominated commerce and colonial expansion in India and Asia from the 17th to the 19th century.
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B.
British South Sea Company
The British South Sea Company was an early 18th-century English trading and finance corporation notorious for its role in the South Sea Bubble and its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.
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C.
Asiatisk Kompagni
Asiatisk Kompagni was the Danish Asiatic Company, a chartered trading company that managed Denmark-Norway’s trade and colonial interests in Asia during the early modern period.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: refersToFullName Context triple: [John Company, refersToFullName, Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies]
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A.
refersToPerson
Indicates that one entity is making reference to, mentioning, or pointing specifically to a particular person.
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B.
refersToRole
Indicates that one entity designates, mentions, or points to another entity specifically in its capacity as a role or position.
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C.
usedInFullNameOf
chosen
Indicates that one entity (such as a word, name part, or title) is used as a component within the complete formal name of another entity.
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D.
fullName
Indicates that an entity has a complete personal name, typically combining given name(s) and family name into a single string.
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E.
isRelatedName
Indicates that one name is connected to another through a variant, derivative, or otherwise non-identical but related naming relationship.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (4 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_69a88aaba3c48190b351cab9b26989ff |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abbf74147c81908793c3694894f94a |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:02 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69af65388fd48190995f778d6438f739 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 12:26 a.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69abbda52328819089c7ab111bebb0ca |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:54 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:46 p.m.