Question: when did english merchants form the east india company
[{'answer': '31 December 1600', 'provenance': [{'wikipedia_id': '43281', 'title': 'East India Company', 'start_paragraph_id': 3, 'start_character': 63, 'end_paragraph_id': 3, 'end_character': 79, 'bleu_score': 1.0, 'section': 'Section::::Abstract.'}]}]