Samuel March
E133343
Samuel March was one of the early New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel March canonical | 2 |
| Samuel Jones | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T723667 — 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 March Context triple: [Buttonwood Agreement, signatory, Samuel March]
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A.
Samuel Jones
Samuel Jones is an individual whose full given name is Samuel but is commonly referred to as Sam Jones.
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B.
Silas Phelps
Silas Phelps is a kindly but morally conflicted Southern farmer and slave owner who appears as Tom Sawyer’s uncle in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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C.
Gulian McEvers
Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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D.
Jeremiah Elfreth
Jeremiah Elfreth was an 18th-century Philadelphia blacksmith and property owner whose name was given to the historic residential street now known as Elfreth's Alley.
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E.
Amory T. Gill
Amory T. Gill was a prominent figure associated with Oregon State University, honored through the naming of Gill Coliseum.
- 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 March Target entity description: Samuel March was one of the early New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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A.
Samuel Jones
Samuel Jones is an individual whose full given name is Samuel but is commonly referred to as Sam Jones.
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B.
Silas Phelps
Silas Phelps is a kindly but morally conflicted Southern farmer and slave owner who appears as Tom Sawyer’s uncle in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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C.
Gulian McEvers
Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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D.
Jeremiah Elfreth
Jeremiah Elfreth was an 18th-century Philadelphia blacksmith and property owner whose name was given to the historic residential street now known as Elfreth's Alley.
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E.
Amory T. Gill
Amory T. Gill was a prominent figure associated with Oregon State University, honored through the naming of Gill Coliseum.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
financial agreement
ⓘ
person ⓘ stockbroker ⓘ |
| contributedTo | formation of the New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| date | 1792 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
finance
ⓘ
securities trading ⓘ |
| hasPredecessor | Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the early New York stockbrokers
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helping found what became the New York Stock Exchange ⓘ signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ |
| occupation | stockbroker ⓘ |
| participantIn | Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
| role | signatory of the Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ |
| signatory | Samuel March ⓘ |
| workLocation | Wall Street ⓘ |
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 March Description of subject: Samuel March was one of the early New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.