Triple

T964845
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Royal African Company E20815 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object City of London merchants
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.
E113561 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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. 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.
  • B. The Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild
    The Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild is a celebrated 1662 group portrait by Rembrandt depicting Amsterdam cloth inspectors gathered around a table in a moment of interrupted business.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Manchester Corporation
    Manchester Corporation was the former municipal governing body of the city of Manchester, responsible for administering local services, infrastructure, and civic institutions before being replaced by the modern city council structure.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: City of London merchants
Triple: [Royal African Company, foundedBy, City of London merchants]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: City of London merchants
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. 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.
  • B. The Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild
    The Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild is a celebrated 1662 group portrait by Rembrandt depicting Amsterdam cloth inspectors gathered around a table in a moment of interrupted business.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Manchester Corporation
    Manchester Corporation was the former municipal governing body of the city of Manchester, responsible for administering local services, infrastructure, and civic institutions before being replaced by the modern city council structure.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69a493b33d2c81909c52c369d3ca8436 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b4303e5881909d101d11f9732c75 completed March 1, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac11a82bfc81908a30b19d4ecc25f1 completed March 7, 2026, 11:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac12e7384881908211de8a4092b3c0 completed March 7, 2026, 11:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac135f4b9c8190b45955bc9ef65608 completed March 7, 2026, noon
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.