asiento de negros contract
E21301
The asiento de negros contract was a major early 18th-century agreement granting Britain the exclusive right to supply enslaved Africans to Spanish America, significantly expanding British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| asiento de negros | 1 |
| asiento de negros contract canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T172149 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: asiento de negros contract Context triple: [Treaty of Utrecht, subjectOf, asiento de negros contract]
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A.
Chair O
Chair O is one of the numbered seats in the Royal Spanish Academy traditionally assigned to a distinguished member responsible for contributing to the institution’s work on the Spanish language.
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B.
Chair A
Chair A is one of the numbered academic seats of the Royal Spanish Academy, traditionally assigned to a distinguished scholar of the Spanish language.
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C.
LC2 armchair
The LC2 armchair is a modernist icon of 20th-century furniture design, characterized by its cubic form, exposed steel frame, and luxurious cushions, created by Le Corbusier with Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand.
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D.
Chair L
Chair L is one of the individual letter-designated seats in the Royal Spanish Academy, traditionally occupied by a distinguished scholar of the Spanish language.
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E.
Chair P
Chair P is one of the letter-designated academic seats of the Royal Spanish Academy, occupied by a distinguished member responsible for contributing to the institution’s work on the Spanish language.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: asiento de negros contract Target entity description: The asiento de negros contract was a major early 18th-century agreement granting Britain the exclusive right to supply enslaved Africans to Spanish America, significantly expanding British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.
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A.
Chair O
Chair O is one of the numbered seats in the Royal Spanish Academy traditionally assigned to a distinguished member responsible for contributing to the institution’s work on the Spanish language.
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B.
Chair A
Chair A is one of the numbered academic seats of the Royal Spanish Academy, traditionally assigned to a distinguished scholar of the Spanish language.
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C.
LC2 armchair
The LC2 armchair is a modernist icon of 20th-century furniture design, characterized by its cubic form, exposed steel frame, and luxurious cushions, created by Le Corbusier with Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand.
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D.
Chair L
Chair L is one of the individual letter-designated seats in the Royal Spanish Academy, traditionally occupied by a distinguished scholar of the Spanish language.
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E.
Chair P
Chair P is one of the letter-designated academic seats of the Royal Spanish Academy, occupied by a distinguished member responsible for contributing to the institution’s work on the Spanish language.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
asiento
ⓘ
international trade agreement ⓘ slave trade contract ⓘ |
| appliesToTerritory |
Spanish America
ⓘ
Spanish colonies in the Americas ⓘ |
| beneficiary |
British slave-trading interests
ⓘ
Spanish Crown revenues ⓘ |
| confersRight | exclusive right to supply enslaved Africans to Spanish America ⓘ |
| economicImpact |
expansion of British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade
ⓘ
growth of British slave-trading profits ⓘ integration of British merchants into Spanish colonial markets ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
Atlantic world
ⓘ
surface form:
Atlantic history
British imperial history ⓘ colonial Latin American history ⓘ history of slavery ⓘ |
| followedBy | continued British slave trading through other arrangements ⓘ |
| grantedBy |
Spanish monarchy
ⓘ
surface form:
Spanish Crown
|
| grantedTo |
British South Sea Company
ⓘ
Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Asiento granted to Britain
ⓘ
Royal African Company ⓘ
surface form:
British Asiento
asiento contract ⓘ asiento de negros contract ⓘ
surface form:
asiento de negros
|
| historicalPeriod | early 18th century ⓘ |
| involves |
sale of enslaved Africans in Spanish colonial ports
ⓘ
transport of enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Spanish ⓘ |
| legalForm | monopoly contract ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Atlantic world commerce
ⓘ
enslavement of Africans ⓘ transatlantic slave trade ⓘ |
| moralCharacterization |
instrument of racial slavery
ⓘ
mechanism of human trafficking ⓘ |
| partOf | system of Spanish imperial asientos ⓘ |
| politicalImpact |
source of diplomatic tension between Britain and Spain
ⓘ
strengthening of British influence in Atlantic trade ⓘ |
| precededBy | earlier asientos granted to Portuguese and other traders ⓘ |
| regulated |
numbers of enslaved Africans to be delivered
ⓘ
ports of delivery in Spanish America ⓘ taxes and duties on slave cargoes ⓘ |
| relatedEvent | War of the Spanish Succession ⓘ |
| relatedTreaty | Treaty of Utrecht ⓘ |
| signatory |
Great Britain
ⓘ
Spain ⓘ |
| victim |
African societies affected by slave raids and trade
ⓘ
enslaved Africans ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: asiento de negros contract Description of subject: The asiento de negros contract was a major early 18th-century agreement granting Britain the exclusive right to supply enslaved Africans to Spanish America, significantly expanding British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
asiento de negros