European company
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A European company is a public limited-liability corporation that operates under a unified legal framework across European Union member states, enabling easier cross-border business within the EU.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| European company canonical | 2 |
| European Company | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1731285 — 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: European company Context triple: [Societas Europaea, hasEnglishName, European company]
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A.
Euro
The Euro is the official common currency used by many countries in the European Union, facilitating trade and travel across much of Europe.
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B.
European Commission
The European Commission is the executive branch of the European Union, responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding EU treaties, and managing the day-to-day business of the EU.
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C.
ECR Group
The ECR Group is a right-leaning, eurosceptic political group in the European Parliament that brings together conservative and reformist parties from across Europe.
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D.
Western European Armaments Group
The Western European Armaments Group was a collaborative body within the Western European Union responsible for coordinating defense equipment procurement and armaments cooperation among its member states.
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E.
Russia Company
The Russia Company, historically known as the Muscovy Company, was a 16th-century English trading company that held a monopoly on trade between England and Russia and played a key role in early Anglo-Russian relations.
- 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: European company Target entity description: A European company is a public limited-liability corporation that operates under a unified legal framework across European Union member states, enabling easier cross-border business within the EU.
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A.
Euro
The Euro is the official common currency used by many countries in the European Union, facilitating trade and travel across much of Europe.
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B.
European Commission
The European Commission is the executive branch of the European Union, responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding EU treaties, and managing the day-to-day business of the EU.
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C.
ECR Group
The ECR Group is a right-leaning, eurosceptic political group in the European Parliament that brings together conservative and reformist parties from across Europe.
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D.
Western European Armaments Group
The Western European Armaments Group was a collaborative body within the Western European Union responsible for coordinating defense equipment procurement and armaments cooperation among its member states.
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E.
Russia Company
The Russia Company, historically known as the Muscovy Company, was a 16th-century English trading company that held a monopoly on trade between England and Russia and played a key role in early Anglo-Russian relations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
legal entity
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public limited-liability company ⓘ supranational corporate form ⓘ |
| allows | transfer of registered office between member states without winding up ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
SE
ⓘ
Societas Europaea ⓘ |
| appliesIn |
European Economic Area
ⓘ
European Union member states ⓘ |
| canBeFormedBy |
conversion of a national public limited-liability company into an SE
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creation of a holding SE ⓘ creation of a subsidiary SE ⓘ merger of public limited-liability companies from different member states ⓘ |
| canEstablish |
branches in other EU member states
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subsidiaries in other EU member states ⓘ |
| enables |
harmonised corporate form across member states
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simplification of cross-border corporate reorganisations ⓘ |
| enteredIntoForce | 2004 ⓘ |
| governedBy |
European Union law
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national company law of the registered office state ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | SE ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
limited liability for shareholders
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single set of rules applicable across participating states ⓘ transferable shares ⓘ |
| hasLatinName | Societas Europaea ⓘ |
| hasLegalBasis |
Council Directive 2001/86/EC
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Council Regulation (EC) No 2157/2001 ⓘ |
| hasLiability | shareholders limited to their capital contribution ⓘ |
| hasOrgan |
general meeting of shareholders
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management organ ⓘ supervisory organ ⓘ |
| hasOrganStructure |
one-tier system
ⓘ
two-tier system ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | European Union ⓘ |
| legalFormType | public limited-liability ⓘ |
| minimumShareCapital | 120000 euro ⓘ |
| mustUse | SE suffix in its name ⓘ |
| purpose |
enable companies to operate on an EU-wide basis under a single legal form
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facilitate cross-border business within the European Union ⓘ |
| requires |
minimum share capital
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registered office and head office in the same member state ⓘ registered office in the European Union ⓘ statutes specifying its corporate governance structure ⓘ |
| sector | corporate law ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
EU rules on freedom of establishment
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company law of the member state of its registered office ⓘ national tax law of the member states where it operates ⓘ rules on employee involvement under Directive 2001/86/EC ⓘ |
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: European company Description of subject: A European company is a public limited-liability corporation that operates under a unified legal framework across European Union member states, enabling easier cross-border business within the EU.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: European company