Société Anonyme
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Société Anonyme is a common French corporate structure for large, share-based companies with limited liability and publicly tradable shares.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Société Anonyme canonical | 19 |
| Sociedad Anónima | 7 |
| S.A. (Société Anonyme) | 3 |
| Naamloze Vennootschap | 1 |
| Société Anonyme (via Iliad SA) | 1 |
| Société anonyme | 1 |
| société anonyme | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1467864 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Société Anonyme Context triple: [Engie, legalForm, Société Anonyme]
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A.
Puteaux Group
The Puteaux Group was an early 20th-century circle of avant-garde artists and theorists in France who played a key role in developing and articulating Cubist ideas.
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B.
Compagnie Générale d’Electricité
Compagnie Générale d’Electricité was a major French industrial and electronics conglomerate that played a central role in the country’s telecommunications and electrical engineering sectors during much of the 20th century.
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C.
Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le lac Léman
Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le lac Léman is a Swiss boat company that operates passenger and tourist cruises on Lake Geneva, including its famous Belle Époque paddle steamers.
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D.
Eiffel et Cie
Eiffel et Cie was the engineering and construction firm through which Gustave Eiffel carried out many of his major iron-structure projects in the late 19th century.
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E.
Société Générale
Société Générale is a major French multinational investment and retail bank and financial services company headquartered in Paris.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Société Anonyme Target entity description: Société Anonyme is a common French corporate structure for large, share-based companies with limited liability and publicly tradable shares.
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A.
Puteaux Group
The Puteaux Group was an early 20th-century circle of avant-garde artists and theorists in France who played a key role in developing and articulating Cubist ideas.
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B.
Compagnie Générale d’Electricité
Compagnie Générale d’Electricité was a major French industrial and electronics conglomerate that played a central role in the country’s telecommunications and electrical engineering sectors during much of the 20th century.
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C.
Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le lac Léman
Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le lac Léman is a Swiss boat company that operates passenger and tourist cruises on Lake Geneva, including its famous Belle Époque paddle steamers.
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D.
Eiffel et Cie
Eiffel et Cie was the engineering and construction firm through which Gustave Eiffel carried out many of his major iron-structure projects in the late 19th century.
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E.
Société Générale
Société Générale is a major French multinational investment and retail bank and financial services company headquartered in Paris.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company type
ⓘ
corporate legal form ⓘ limited liability company form ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SA ⓘ |
| capitalDivision | capital divided into shares ⓘ |
| capitalRepresentation | shares may be bearer or registered (subject to jurisdictional rules) ⓘ |
| capitalRequirement | minimum share capital required by law ⓘ |
| continuity | perpetual succession independent of shareholders ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Société à responsabilité limitée (SARL)
ⓘ
linked to:
LLC
private limited company forms ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| etymology | from French for “anonymous company” ⓘ |
| governanceModel | one-tier or two-tier board system depending on jurisdiction ⓘ |
| governingBody |
board of directors or management board
ⓘ
shareholders’ general meeting ⓘ supervisory board (in two-tier systems) ⓘ |
| hasNameInFrench | Société anonyme ⓘ |
| investorType | suitable for dispersed and institutional shareholding ⓘ |
| languageOfTerm | French ⓘ |
| legalPersonality | separate legal entity from its shareholders ⓘ |
| legalSystem |
French law
ⓘ
civil law systems influenced by French law ⓘ |
| liabilityType | limited liability ⓘ |
| ownershipEvidence | shares ⓘ |
| possibleListingVenue |
multilateral trading facilities
ⓘ
regulated markets ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose | conduct of commercial activities for profit ⓘ |
| regulationArea |
company law
ⓘ
securities law (for listed SAs) ⓘ |
| requiresConstitutionDocument | articles of association ⓘ |
| shareholderLiability | limited to contribution to share capital ⓘ |
| shareStructure | share-based capital ⓘ |
| shareTradability | shares may be listed on a stock exchange ⓘ |
| shareTransferability | freely transferable shares ⓘ |
| similarTo |
Aktiengesellschaft (AG) in German-speaking countries
ⓘ
linked to:
Aktiengesellschaft
public limited company (PLC) in common law jurisdictions ⓘ |
| taxTreatment | generally subject to corporate income tax ⓘ |
| typicalFeature |
possibility to raise capital from the public
ⓘ
strong governance and disclosure requirements for listed entities ⓘ |
| typicalUse |
large companies
ⓘ
publicly traded companies ⓘ |
| usedInJurisdiction |
Belgium
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France ⓘ Luxembourg ⓘ Portugal ⓘ Spain ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ many Francophone countries ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Société Anonyme Description of subject: Société Anonyme is a common French corporate structure for large, share-based companies with limited liability and publicly tradable shares.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Société Anonyme
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subject linked to:
Free (French ISP brand via Iliad)
linked to: Société Anonyme
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linked to: Société Anonyme
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linked to: Société Anonyme
subject linked to:
LR
linked to: Société Anonyme
linked to: Société Anonyme