Ontario Business Corporations Act (securities-related provisions)
E378522
The Ontario Business Corporations Act (securities-related provisions) is the portion of Ontario’s corporate statute that governs key aspects of share issuance, shareholder rights, and corporate governance relevant to securities regulation and oversight by the Ontario Securities Commission.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ontario Business Corporations Act | 1 |
| Ontario Business Corporations Act (securities-related provisions) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3675303 — 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: Ontario Business Corporations Act (securities-related provisions) Context triple: [Ontario Securities Commission, appliesLaw, Ontario Business Corporations Act (securities-related provisions)]
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A.
Ontario Securities Commission
The Ontario Securities Commission is the provincial regulatory agency responsible for overseeing and enforcing securities laws and protecting investors in Ontario, Canada.
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B.
Corporations Act 2001
The Corporations Act 2001 is Australia’s primary federal law governing companies, financial markets, and corporate regulation, including the powers and responsibilities of key regulators.
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C.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 is the federal law that establishes and governs Australia’s corporate, markets, financial services and consumer credit regulator, defining its powers, functions and regulatory framework.
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D.
New York Business Corporation Law
The New York Business Corporation Law is the primary body of state law governing the formation, operation, and dissolution of business corporations in New York.
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E.
Canadian Securities Administrators
The Canadian Securities Administrators is an umbrella organization of Canada’s provincial and territorial securities regulators that coordinates and harmonizes regulation of the country’s capital markets.
- 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: Ontario Business Corporations Act (securities-related provisions) Target entity description: The Ontario Business Corporations Act (securities-related provisions) is the portion of Ontario’s corporate statute that governs key aspects of share issuance, shareholder rights, and corporate governance relevant to securities regulation and oversight by the Ontario Securities Commission.
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A.
Ontario Securities Commission
The Ontario Securities Commission is the provincial regulatory agency responsible for overseeing and enforcing securities laws and protecting investors in Ontario, Canada.
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B.
Corporations Act 2001
The Corporations Act 2001 is Australia’s primary federal law governing companies, financial markets, and corporate regulation, including the powers and responsibilities of key regulators.
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C.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 is the federal law that establishes and governs Australia’s corporate, markets, financial services and consumer credit regulator, defining its powers, functions and regulatory framework.
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D.
Corporate Law Economic Reform Program Act 1999
The Corporate Law Economic Reform Program Act 1999 is an Australian statute that implemented major reforms to corporate regulation and governance as part of a broader program to modernize and streamline the country’s corporate law framework.
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E.
New York Business Corporation Law
The New York Business Corporation Law is the primary body of state law governing the formation, operation, and dissolution of business corporations in New York.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | corporate law statute provisions ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
corporations incorporated under the Ontario Business Corporations Act
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distributing corporations under Ontario law ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| enables | corporate structures used in securities offerings ⓘ |
| governs |
amalgamations affecting shareholders
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amendments to articles affecting share rights ⓘ arrangements and reorganizations affecting securities ⓘ classes and series of shares ⓘ conflicts of interest of directors and officers ⓘ continuances of corporations into or out of Ontario ⓘ corporate governance of Ontario corporations ⓘ corporate records relating to securities ⓘ derivative actions by security holders ⓘ director elections ⓘ director removal by shareholders ⓘ dissent rights of shareholders ⓘ dividend rights of shareholders ⓘ fiduciary duties of directors ⓘ fundamental changes to share capital ⓘ indemnification of directors and officers ⓘ information circulars to shareholders ⓘ oppression remedy for security holders ⓘ pre-emptive rights where provided in articles ⓘ proxy voting by shareholders ⓘ quorum requirements for shareholder meetings ⓘ requisitioning of shareholder meetings ⓘ restrictions on financial assistance in certain circumstances ⓘ rights on liquidation ⓘ share certificates and uncertificated securities ⓘ share issuance by Ontario corporations ⓘ share transfer restrictions ⓘ shareholder access to corporate records ⓘ shareholder approval requirements for certain transactions ⓘ shareholder meetings ⓘ shareholder proposals ⓘ shareholder rights ⓘ voting rights of shareholders ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Province of Ontario
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linked to:
Ontario
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| language |
English
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French ⓘ |
| legalForm | provincial statute ⓘ |
| partOf | Ontario Business Corporations Act ⓘ |
| providesFrameworkFor |
rights of minority shareholders
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take-over bid and going‑private transaction protections via corporate remedies ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Ontario Securities Act
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Ontario Securities Commission ⓘ |
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: Ontario Business Corporations Act (securities-related provisions) Description of subject: The Ontario Business Corporations Act (securities-related provisions) is the portion of Ontario’s corporate statute that governs key aspects of share issuance, shareholder rights, and corporate governance relevant to securities regulation and oversight by the Ontario Securities Commission.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Ontario Securities Commission
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appliesLaw
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Ontario Business Corporations Act (securities-related provisions)
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Ontario Business Corporations Act (securities-related provisions)
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partOf
→
Ontario Business Corporations Act
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linked to: Ontario Business Corporations Act (securities-related provisions)