Triple

T6263089
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British opium trade in China E140347 entity
Predicate keyActor P30063 FINISHED
Object British private merchants E113561 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: British private merchants | Statement: [British opium trade in China, keyActor, British private merchants]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: British private merchants
Context triple: [British opium trade in China, keyActor, British private 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. British merchant navy
    The British merchant navy is the United Kingdom’s civilian commercial shipping fleet, responsible for transporting goods and passengers worldwide under the British flag.
  • D. 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.
  • 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)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69c008c95c5c819084bd3dd56133d84d elicitation completed
NER batch_69c06387fec0819095b47a37b9402aa9 ner completed
NED1 batch_69c2445061a481909487fdb04c50493b ned_source_triple completed
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:25 p.m.