Asiento de Negros
E462740
Asiento de Negros was a Spanish Crown-granted monopoly contract that allowed designated traders, notably the British South Sea Company, to supply enslaved Africans to Spanish America, becoming a major source of international tension in the 18th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Asiento de Negros canonical | 2 |
| asiento de negros (slave trade contract with Spanish America) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4698282 — 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 Context triple: [Battle of Jenkins' Ear (incident), relatedTo, Asiento de Negros]
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A.
El Negrito de Ojos Claros
El Negrito de Ojos Claros is a popular nickname for Puerto Rican reggaeton and Latin trap singer Ozuna, highlighting his light-colored eyes and Afro-Latino heritage.
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B.
Regla de Palo
Regla de Palo is an Afro-Cuban religion of Central African (Kongo) origin that centers on spirit veneration, the use of sacred cauldrons, and powerful ritual magic.
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C.
Book of Negroes
The Book of Negroes is a historical ledger compiled by the British in 1783 that records the names and details of thousands of Black Loyalists who were evacuated from the United States to British territories after the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
The Black Book
The Black Book is a postmodern novel by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk that blends mystery, philosophical reflection, and Istanbul’s labyrinthine atmosphere to explore identity and storytelling.
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E.
Door of No Return
The Door of No Return is a symbolic and haunting memorial site on Gorée Island in Senegal, marking the final exit point from Africa for countless enslaved Africans during the transatlantic slave trade.
- 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 Target entity description: Asiento de Negros was a Spanish Crown-granted monopoly contract that allowed designated traders, notably the British South Sea Company, to supply enslaved Africans to Spanish America, becoming a major source of international tension in the 18th century.
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A.
El Negrito de Ojos Claros
El Negrito de Ojos Claros is a popular nickname for Puerto Rican reggaeton and Latin trap singer Ozuna, highlighting his light-colored eyes and Afro-Latino heritage.
-
B.
Regla de Palo
Regla de Palo is an Afro-Cuban religion of Central African (Kongo) origin that centers on spirit veneration, the use of sacred cauldrons, and powerful ritual magic.
-
C.
Book of Negroes
The Book of Negroes is a historical ledger compiled by the British in 1783 that records the names and details of thousands of Black Loyalists who were evacuated from the United States to British territories after the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
The Black Book
The Black Book is a postmodern novel by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk that blends mystery, philosophical reflection, and Istanbul’s labyrinthine atmosphere to explore identity and storytelling.
-
E.
Door of No Return
The Door of No Return is a symbolic and haunting memorial site on Gorée Island in Senegal, marking the final exit point from Africa for countless enslaved Africans during the transatlantic slave trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
asiento
ⓘ
monopoly contract ⓘ slave trade contract ⓘ |
| appliesTo | Spanish America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithConflict |
War of Jenkins' Ear
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
War of the Spanish Succession NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTreaty | Treaty of Utrecht NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| beneficiary |
British merchants
ⓘ
Spanish Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOf | international tension in the 18th century ⓘ |
| country | Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| economicSector | Atlantic slave trade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicScope |
Caribbean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spanish American colonies NERFINISHED ⓘ Spanish mainland America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grantedBy | Spanish Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalLegacy |
source of enduring Anglo-Spanish historical controversy
ⓘ
symbol of colonial exploitation ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | early modern period ⓘ |
| impact |
expansion of African diaspora in the Americas
ⓘ
growth of British involvement in the slave trade ⓘ strengthening of Spanish colonial labor systems ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Spanish ⓘ |
| legalForm | royal contract ⓘ |
| legalStatus | Crown-granted monopoly ⓘ |
| mainCommodity | enslaved Africans ⓘ |
| mainPurpose | supply of enslaved Africans to Spanish America ⓘ |
| moralCharacterization | crime against humanity ⓘ |
| notableContractor |
British South Sea Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Sea Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableContractorCountry | Kingdom of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | transatlantic slave trade ⓘ |
| perpetratedHarmOn |
African societies
ⓘ
Afro-descendant populations in the Americas ⓘ enslaved Africans ⓘ |
| regulates |
number of enslaved Africans to be imported
ⓘ
taxes and duties on slave imports ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
European mercantilism
ⓘ
Spanish colonial system ⓘ imperial rivalry between Britain and Spain ⓘ |
| significantCentury |
17th century
ⓘ
18th century ⓘ |
| typeOfExploitation | chattel slavery ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Description of subject: Asiento de Negros was a Spanish Crown-granted monopoly contract that allowed designated traders, notably the British South Sea Company, to supply enslaved Africans to Spanish America, becoming a major source of international tension in the 18th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
asiento de negros (slave trade contract with Spanish America)