Triple

T964872
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Royal African Company E20815 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object African Company of Merchants
The African Company of Merchants was an 18th-century British chartered trading company that managed and regulated Britain’s commerce, including the transatlantic slave trade, along the West African coast.
E20815 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: African Company of Merchants | Statement: [Royal African Company, successor, African Company of Merchants]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: African Company of Merchants
Context triple: [Royal African Company, successor, African Company of Merchants]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Dutch West India Company
    The Dutch West India Company was a powerful 17th-century chartered company of the Dutch Republic that dominated Atlantic trade, including sugar, slaves, and colonial enterprises in the Americas and West Africa.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Dutch East India Company
    The Dutch East India Company was a powerful 17th–18th century chartered trading corporation that dominated Dutch colonial trade in Asia and is often considered the world’s first multinational company and first issuer of stock.
  • 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: African Company of Merchants
Triple: [Royal African Company, successor, African Company of Merchants]
Generated description
The African Company of Merchants was an 18th-century British chartered trading company that managed and regulated Britain’s commerce, including the transatlantic slave trade, along the West African coast.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: African Company of Merchants
Target entity description: The African Company of Merchants was an 18th-century British chartered trading company that managed and regulated Britain’s commerce, including the transatlantic slave trade, along the West African coast.
  • A. Royal African Company chosen
    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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Dutch West India Company
    The Dutch West India Company was a powerful 17th-century chartered company of the Dutch Republic that dominated Atlantic trade, including sugar, slaves, and colonial enterprises in the Americas and West Africa.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Dutch East India Company
    The Dutch East India Company was a powerful 17th–18th century chartered trading corporation that dominated Dutch colonial trade in Asia and is often considered the world’s first multinational company and first issuer of stock.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ac4287830c819095ffc30fc03a7461 completed March 7, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac4484f46481909fb4a97996404332 completed March 7, 2026, 3:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac44f54084819084b0e80f423924fa completed March 7, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.