Triple

T5041971
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Royal African Company E113565 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object City of London merchants E113561 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: City of London merchants | Statement: [Royal African Company, foundedBy, City of London merchants]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: City of London merchants
Context triple: [Royal African Company, foundedBy, City of London merchants]
  • A. City of London merchants chosen
    City of London merchants were influential early modern English traders and financiers based in London’s commercial hub, heavily involved in overseas commerce, including colonial and slave-trading enterprises.
  • B. English merchants of the Company of Adventurers
    English merchants of the Company of Adventurers were a group of London-based investors and traders who financed early 17th-century voyages of exploration and commerce, including Henry Hudson’s expeditions in search of new trade routes.
  • C. Livery companies of the City of London
    The livery companies of the City of London are historic trade and professional guilds that play a ceremonial, charitable, and electoral role in the governance of the City.
  • D. The Worshipful Company of Mercers
    The Worshipful Company of Mercers is the premier livery company of the City of London, historically associated with the trade in fine textiles and now a major charitable and educational foundation.
  • E. Scottish burghers
    Scottish burghers were urban middle-class residents of Scottish towns, often merchants and tradesmen, who held civic rights and played a significant role in the country’s political and religious movements.
  • 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.