Powers-Samas
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Powers-Samas was a British company that manufactured punched-card data processing machines and was a key player in early 20th-century office automation before being absorbed into larger computer firms.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Powers-Samas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5437383 — 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: Powers-Samas Context triple: [International Computers and Tabulators, predecessor, Powers-Samas]
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A.
Samueli
Samueli is a surname most prominently associated with American engineer and philanthropist Henry Samueli, co-founder of Broadcom Corporation.
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B.
The Power
The Power is the English title of Surah Al-Qadr, a short chapter of the Qur’an that highlights the immense spiritual significance of the Night of Decree when the Qur’an was first revealed.
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C.
The Power
"The Power" is the pilot episode of the animated series Regular Show, introducing Mordecai and Rigby as they discover a magical keyboard that lets them manipulate reality with disastrous and comedic results.
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D.
The Power
The Power is the nickname of the Port Adelaide Football Club, a professional Australian rules football team based in Adelaide that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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E.
The Power
The Power is a self-help book by Rhonda Byrne that expands on the ideas of positive thinking and the law of attraction introduced in her earlier work, The Secret.
- 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: Powers-Samas Target entity description: Powers-Samas was a British company that manufactured punched-card data processing machines and was a key player in early 20th-century office automation before being absorbed into larger computer firms.
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A.
Samueli
Samueli is a surname most prominently associated with American engineer and philanthropist Henry Samueli, co-founder of Broadcom Corporation.
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B.
The Power
The Power is the English title of Surah Al-Qadr, a short chapter of the Qur’an that highlights the immense spiritual significance of the Night of Decree when the Qur’an was first revealed.
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C.
The Power
"The Power" is the pilot episode of the animated series Regular Show, introducing Mordecai and Rigby as they discover a magical keyboard that lets them manipulate reality with disastrous and comedic results.
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D.
The Power
The Power is the nickname of the Port Adelaide Football Club, a professional Australian rules football team based in Adelaide that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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E.
The Power
The Power is a self-help book by Rhonda Byrne that expands on the ideas of positive thinking and the law of attraction introduced in her earlier work, The Secret.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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punch card equipment manufacturer ⓘ |
| basedOn | punched-card technology ⓘ |
| businessModel |
leasing punched-card equipment
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maintaining punched-card systems ⓘ |
| competedWith |
Hollerith-type companies
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IBM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
development of data processing industry
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development of office automation ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fate | absorbed into larger computer firms ⓘ |
| industry |
data processing
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office automation ⓘ |
| market | European punched-card equipment market ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
early 20th century
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mid 20th century ⓘ |
| product |
card punches
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punched-card machines ⓘ sorters ⓘ tabulators ⓘ verifiers ⓘ |
| provided | technical support for punched-card installations ⓘ |
| role | key player in early office automation ⓘ |
| technology |
electromechanical data processing
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mechanical data processing ⓘ |
| usedBy |
commercial enterprises
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government organizations ⓘ |
| usedFor |
accounting applications
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business data processing ⓘ statistical work ⓘ |
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: Powers-Samas Description of subject: Powers-Samas was a British company that manufactured punched-card data processing machines and was a key player in early 20th-century office automation before being absorbed into larger computer firms.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.