Edwin Waterhouse
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Edwin Waterhouse was a British accountant and co-founder of the influential accounting firm Price Waterhouse, a predecessor of the global professional services network PwC.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edwin Waterhouse canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7094256 — 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: Edwin Waterhouse Context triple: [Price Waterhouse, foundedBy, Edwin Waterhouse]
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A.
Edwin Holgate
Edwin Holgate was a Canadian painter and printmaker associated with the Group of Seven, known for his landscapes and distinctive figure studies that helped shape early 20th-century Canadian art.
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B.
Alfred Yeates
Alfred Yeates was a civil engineer best known for designing London’s Southwark Bridge.
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C.
Edwin Craye
Edwin Craye is a fictional character from P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster universe, appearing in the novel "Joy in the Morning."
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D.
Edgar Lyons
Edgar Lyons was a cinematographer active during the early sound era of American cinema, known for his work on the pioneering all-talking feature film "Lights of New York."
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E.
Walter Crickmer
Walter Crickmer was an English football club secretary and manager for Manchester United who was among those who died in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
- 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: Edwin Waterhouse Target entity description: Edwin Waterhouse was a British accountant and co-founder of the influential accounting firm Price Waterhouse, a predecessor of the global professional services network PwC.
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A.
Edwin Holgate
Edwin Holgate was a Canadian painter and printmaker associated with the Group of Seven, known for his landscapes and distinctive figure studies that helped shape early 20th-century Canadian art.
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B.
Alfred Yeates
Alfred Yeates was a civil engineer best known for designing London’s Southwark Bridge.
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C.
Edwin Craye
Edwin Craye is a fictional character from P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster universe, appearing in the novel "Joy in the Morning."
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D.
Edgar Lyons
Edgar Lyons was a cinematographer active during the early sound era of American cinema, known for his work on the pioneering all-talking feature film "Lights of New York."
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E.
Walter Crickmer
Walter Crickmer was an English football club secretary and manager for Manchester United who was among those who died in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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accountant ⓘ human ⓘ professional services firm ⓘ professional services network ⓘ |
| affiliation | Price Waterhouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
PricewaterhouseCoopers
NERFINISHED
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PwC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | Price Waterhouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | Price Waterhouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Waterhouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
accounting
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assurance ⓘ audit ⓘ auditing ⓘ consulting ⓘ tax advisory ⓘ |
| givenName | Edwin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPredecessor |
Price Waterhouse
NERFINISHED
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accounting practices of its founders ⓘ |
| hasRole | co-founder of Price Waterhouse ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor |
PricewaterhouseCoopers
NERFINISHED
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PricewaterhouseCoopers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | development of modern professional accounting firms ⓘ |
| name | Edwin Waterhouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-founding the accounting firm Price Waterhouse ⓘ |
| notableWork | co-founding Price Waterhouse ⓘ |
| occupation | accountant ⓘ |
| shortName | PwC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Edwin Waterhouse Description of subject: Edwin Waterhouse was a British accountant and co-founder of the influential accounting firm Price Waterhouse, a predecessor of the global professional services network PwC.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.