Triple
T964847
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Royal African Company |
E20815
|
entity |
| Predicate | precededBy |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa
The Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa was a 17th-century English chartered company that held a royal monopoly over trade with West Africa, including a major role in the early transatlantic slave trade.
|
E113562
|
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: Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa | Statement: [Royal African Company, precededBy, Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa Context triple: [Royal African Company, precededBy, Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa]
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A.
Captain from Castile
Captain from Castile is a 1947 historical adventure film set during the Spanish Inquisition and Hernán Cortés’s conquest of Mexico, starring Tyrone Power in one of his signature swashbuckling roles.
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B.
Tales of a Traveller
Tales of a Traveller is a collection of short stories by Washington Irving that blends romanticism, humor, and the supernatural in a series of travel-themed tales.
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C.
Voyage to the Moluccas
Voyage to the Moluccas was the early 16th-century Spanish expedition, led by Ferdinand Magellan and later Juan Sebastián Elcano, that first circumnavigated the globe in search of a westward route to the Spice Islands.
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D.
A Hazard of New Fortunes
A Hazard of New Fortunes is an 1890 realist novel by William Dean Howells that portrays the social, economic, and cultural tensions of Gilded Age New York City through the experiences of a literary magazine’s staff.
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E.
The Travels of Benjamin the Third
The Travels of Benjamin the Third is a classic 19th-century Yiddish satirical novel that parodies romantic adventure tales through the misadventures of a naive Jewish dreamer.
- 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: Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa Triple: [Royal African Company, precededBy, Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa]
Generated description
The Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa was a 17th-century English chartered company that held a royal monopoly over trade with West Africa, including a major role in the early transatlantic slave trade.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa Target entity description: The Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa was a 17th-century English chartered company that held a royal monopoly over trade with West Africa, including a major role in the early transatlantic slave trade.
-
A.
Captain from Castile
Captain from Castile is a 1947 historical adventure film set during the Spanish Inquisition and Hernán Cortés’s conquest of Mexico, starring Tyrone Power in one of his signature swashbuckling roles.
-
B.
Tales of a Traveller
Tales of a Traveller is a collection of short stories by Washington Irving that blends romanticism, humor, and the supernatural in a series of travel-themed tales.
-
C.
Voyage to the Moluccas
Voyage to the Moluccas was the early 16th-century Spanish expedition, led by Ferdinand Magellan and later Juan Sebastián Elcano, that first circumnavigated the globe in search of a westward route to the Spice Islands.
-
D.
A Hazard of New Fortunes
A Hazard of New Fortunes is an 1890 realist novel by William Dean Howells that portrays the social, economic, and cultural tensions of Gilded Age New York City through the experiences of a literary magazine’s staff.
-
E.
The Travels of Benjamin the Third
The Travels of Benjamin the Third is a classic 19th-century Yiddish satirical novel that parodies romantic adventure tales through the misadventures of a naive Jewish dreamer.
- 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_69a4b431d61481908b53490e99670363 |
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.