Swedish Africa Company
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The Swedish Africa Company was a 17th-century Swedish chartered trading company that operated along the West African coast, primarily engaged in the trade of gold, ivory, and enslaved people.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swedish Africa Company canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5041886 — 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: Swedish Africa Company Context triple: [Cape Coast Castle, builtBy, Swedish Africa Company]
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A.
Swedish South Company
The Swedish South Company was a 17th-century Swedish trading company that organized and managed Sweden’s short-lived colonial ventures in North America, particularly in the Delaware Valley.
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B.
Danish West India Company
The Danish West India Company was a chartered trading company of the Kingdom of Denmark–Norway that administered and profited from colonial possessions in the Caribbean, particularly in what became the Danish West Indies.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- 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: Swedish Africa Company Target entity description: The Swedish Africa Company was a 17th-century Swedish chartered trading company that operated along the West African coast, primarily engaged in the trade of gold, ivory, and enslaved people.
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A.
Swedish South Company
The Swedish South Company was a 17th-century Swedish trading company that organized and managed Sweden’s short-lived colonial ventures in North America, particularly in the Delaware Valley.
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B.
Danish West India Company
The Danish West India Company was a chartered trading company of the Kingdom of Denmark–Norway that administered and profited from colonial possessions in the Caribbean, particularly in what became the Danish West Indies.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Swedish trading company
ⓘ
chartered trading company ⓘ |
| builtFort |
Fort Carlsborg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fort Christiansborg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| charteringAuthority | Swedish Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competedWith |
Danish Africa Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dutch West India Company NERFINISHED ⓘ English trading companies ⓘ |
| country | Sweden ⓘ |
| economicRole | part of Sweden's mercantilist expansion ⓘ |
| engagedIn | triangular trade ⓘ |
| exportedToSweden |
gold
ⓘ
ivory ⓘ tropical goods ⓘ |
| flagCountry | Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasColony | Swedish Gold Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTradingPost |
Butre
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cape Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ Carlsborg NERFINISHED ⓘ Osu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Stockholm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Age of Exploration
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
early modern period ⓘ |
| importedFromSweden |
alcohol
ⓘ
firearms ⓘ iron ⓘ textiles ⓘ |
| industry | trade ⓘ |
| involvedIn | Atlantic slave trade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOperation |
Dutch
ⓘ
German ⓘ Swedish ⓘ |
| mainActivity | overseas trade ⓘ |
| monopolyOn | Swedish trade with parts of West Africa ⓘ |
| operatedInCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| partOf | Swedish colonial empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForDecline |
competition from other European powers
ⓘ
loss of forts on the Gold Coast ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| tradedCommodity |
African goods
ⓘ
enslaved people ⓘ gold ⓘ ivory ⓘ |
| tradedRegion |
Gold Coast
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guinea coast NERFINISHED ⓘ West Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tradeRoute | Sweden–West Africa–Caribbean–Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Swedish Africa Company Description of subject: The Swedish Africa Company was a 17th-century Swedish chartered trading company that operated along the West African coast, primarily engaged in the trade of gold, ivory, and enslaved people.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.