New York Mercantile Exchange
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The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) is a major commodities futures exchange in New York City, best known as a leading global marketplace for energy products and other raw materials.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New York Mercantile Exchange canonical | 7 |
| NYMEX | 4 |
| COMEX | 1 |
| NYMEX Holdings, Inc. | 1 |
| New York Mercantile Exchange metals divisions | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3521781 — 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: New York Mercantile Exchange Context triple: [WTI crude oil futures, tradedOn, New York Mercantile Exchange]
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A.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is a major U.S. derivatives marketplace where futures and options on a wide range of asset classes are traded.
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B.
Intercontinental Exchange
Intercontinental Exchange is a global operator of financial and commodity markets and exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange, providing trading, clearing, data, and listing services.
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C.
Chicago Board of Trade
The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the world’s oldest and most influential futures and options exchanges, serving as a major hub for trading agricultural and financial derivatives.
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D.
Chicago Board Options Exchange
The Chicago Board Options Exchange is a major U.S. options exchange and derivatives marketplace known for pioneering standardized, exchange-traded options.
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E.
CME Group
CME Group is a leading global derivatives marketplace that operates major futures and options exchanges across asset classes such as interest rates, equities, foreign exchange, energy, and commodities.
- 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: New York Mercantile Exchange Target entity description: The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) is a major commodities futures exchange in New York City, best known as a leading global marketplace for energy products and other raw materials.
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A.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is a major U.S. derivatives marketplace where futures and options on a wide range of asset classes are traded.
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B.
Intercontinental Exchange
Intercontinental Exchange is a global operator of financial and commodity markets and exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange, providing trading, clearing, data, and listing services.
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C.
Chicago Board of Trade
The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the world’s oldest and most influential futures and options exchanges, serving as a major hub for trading agricultural and financial derivatives.
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D.
Chicago Board Options Exchange
The Chicago Board Options Exchange is a major U.S. options exchange and derivatives marketplace known for pioneering standardized, exchange-traded options.
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E.
CME Group
CME Group is a leading global derivatives marketplace that operates major futures and options exchanges across asset classes such as interest rates, equities, foreign exchange, energy, and commodities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commodities exchange
ⓘ
financial institution ⓘ futures exchange ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
NYMEX
ⓘ
linked to:
New York Mercantile Exchange
|
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| currency |
United States dollar
ⓘ
linked to:
US dollar
|
| foundedAs | New York Mercantile Exchange ⓘ |
| hasDivision | COMEX ⓘ |
| hasNotableContract |
Henry Hub natural gas futures
ⓘ
RBOB gasoline futures ⓘ WTI crude oil futures ⓘ gold futures (via COMEX) ⓘ heating oil futures ⓘ silver futures (via COMEX) ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/energy.html ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| industry |
commodities trading
ⓘ
derivatives ⓘ financial services ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| marketType | derivatives market ⓘ |
| operator | CME Group ⓘ |
| ownedBy | CME Group ⓘ |
| partOf | CME Group exchanges ⓘ |
| primaryFocus | energy products and other raw materials ⓘ |
| productType |
agricultural futures
ⓘ
energy futures ⓘ metals futures ⓘ options contracts ⓘ |
| regulator | U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission ⓘ |
| role |
price discovery center for energy markets
ⓘ
risk management venue for commodities ⓘ |
| scope | global ⓘ |
| shortName |
NYMEX
ⓘ
linked to:
New York Mercantile Exchange
|
| specializesIn |
agricultural commodities
ⓘ
crude oil ⓘ energy commodities ⓘ gasoline ⓘ heating oil ⓘ metals ⓘ natural gas ⓘ precious metals ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Eastern Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Time Zone
|
| tradesIn |
futures contracts
ⓘ
options on futures ⓘ |
| tradingMethod |
electronic trading
ⓘ
open outcry (historically) ⓘ |
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: New York Mercantile Exchange Description of subject: The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) is a major commodities futures exchange in New York City, best known as a leading global marketplace for energy products and other raw materials.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: New York Mercantile Exchange
linked to: New York Mercantile Exchange
subject linked to:
S&P GSCI Crude Oil index
linked to: New York Mercantile Exchange
linked to: New York Mercantile Exchange