Triple

T5041806
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject City of London merchants E113561 entity
Predicate memberOf P10 FINISHED
Object Royal African Company (as individual shareholders and directors) E20815 NE FINISHED

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 African Company (as individual shareholders and directors) | Statement: [City of London merchants, memberOf, Royal African Company (as individual shareholders and directors)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Royal African Company (as individual shareholders and directors)
Context triple: [City of London merchants, memberOf, Royal African Company (as individual shareholders and directors)]
  • A. Royal African Company chosen
    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.
  • 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Royal Niger Company
    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.
  • E. British East India Company
    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.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69bd44384298819089c49e7c330ec7b8 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd73de73008190b89aec9a76b43e4f completed March 20, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be9c8414288190bf53a40033aa70ea completed March 21, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:37 p.m.