Samuel Lowell Price
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Samuel Lowell Price was a 19th-century British accountant best known as a founding partner of the accounting firm that evolved into Price Waterhouse, a predecessor of PwC.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Lowell Price canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7094255 — 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: Samuel Lowell Price Context triple: [Price Waterhouse, foundedBy, Samuel Lowell Price]
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A.
James R. Osgood
James R. Osgood was a prominent 19th-century American publisher known for his influential role in the Boston literary scene and for publishing works by major authors of his time.
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B.
George C. Perkins
George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
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C.
George W. Perkins
George W. Perkins was an American financier and philanthropist known for his influential role in Progressive Era reforms and support of major public health and social causes.
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D.
Thomas A. Bartlett
Thomas A. Bartlett is an American academic leader and former university president known for his influential roles in higher education administration and policy.
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E.
Herbert S. Bigelow
Herbert S. Bigelow was an American clergyman and social reformer known for his progressive activism and advocacy for social justice in the early 20th century.
- 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: Samuel Lowell Price Target entity description: Samuel Lowell Price was a 19th-century British accountant best known as a founding partner of the accounting firm that evolved into Price Waterhouse, a predecessor of PwC.
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A.
James R. Osgood
James R. Osgood was a prominent 19th-century American publisher known for his influential role in the Boston literary scene and for publishing works by major authors of his time.
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B.
George C. Perkins
George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
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C.
George W. Perkins
George W. Perkins was an American financier and philanthropist known for his influential role in Progressive Era reforms and support of major public health and social causes.
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D.
Thomas A. Bartlett
Thomas A. Bartlett is an American academic leader and former university president known for his influential roles in higher education administration and policy.
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E.
Herbert S. Bigelow
Herbert S. Bigelow was an American clergyman and social reformer known for his progressive activism and advocacy for social justice in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
accountant
ⓘ
businessperson ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Price Waterhouse
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
PricewaterhouseCoopers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessArea |
financial statement auditing
ⓘ
public accountancy ⓘ |
| coFounded | Price Waterhouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| era | Victorian era ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | British ⓘ |
| familyName | Price NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
accounting
ⓘ
auditing ⓘ |
| founded | accounting practice in London ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSuccessorOrganization |
PricewaterhouseCoopers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
PwC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | professional services ⓘ |
| influenced | professionalization of accountancy in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| knownAs | S. L. Price NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a founding partner of the firm that became Price Waterhouse
ⓘ
contribution to the development of modern public accountancy in the 19th century ⓘ |
| occupation | accountant ⓘ |
| precededBy | early informal bookkeeping practices in Britain ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Samuel Lowell Price Description of subject: Samuel Lowell Price was a 19th-century British accountant best known as a founding partner of the accounting firm that evolved into Price Waterhouse, a predecessor of PwC.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.