Philip Crosby Associates
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Philip Crosby Associates is a management consulting firm best known for promoting Philip W. Crosby’s quality management principles, including “zero defects” and the idea that quality is free.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philip Crosby Associates canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6760521 — 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: Philip Crosby Associates Context triple: [Philip W. Crosby, founded, Philip Crosby Associates]
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A.
Rockwell Group
Rockwell Group is a renowned New York–based architecture and design firm known for its innovative, experience-driven projects across hospitality, entertainment, and cultural spaces worldwide.
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B.
Arthur D. Little, Inc.
Arthur D. Little, Inc. is a pioneering global management consulting firm known for its work in technology, innovation, and strategy across a wide range of industries.
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C.
John A. Martin & Associates
John A. Martin & Associates is a structural engineering firm known for designing major high-rise and complex structures, including landmark skyscrapers in the United States.
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D.
Doxiadis Associates
Doxiadis Associates was an influential Greek architectural and urban planning firm founded by Constantinos A. Doxiadis, known for its large-scale planning projects and the development of the theory of Ekistics.
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E.
C. F. Murphy Associates
C. F. Murphy Associates was a prominent American architectural firm known for designing major civic and cultural buildings in the mid-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: Philip Crosby Associates Target entity description: Philip Crosby Associates is a management consulting firm best known for promoting Philip W. Crosby’s quality management principles, including “zero defects” and the idea that quality is free.
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A.
Rockwell Group
Rockwell Group is a renowned New York–based architecture and design firm known for its innovative, experience-driven projects across hospitality, entertainment, and cultural spaces worldwide.
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B.
Arthur D. Little, Inc.
Arthur D. Little, Inc. is a pioneering global management consulting firm known for its work in technology, innovation, and strategy across a wide range of industries.
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C.
John A. Martin & Associates
John A. Martin & Associates is a structural engineering firm known for designing major high-rise and complex structures, including landmark skyscrapers in the United States.
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D.
Doxiadis Associates
Doxiadis Associates was an influential Greek architectural and urban planning firm founded by Constantinos A. Doxiadis, known for its large-scale planning projects and the development of the theory of Ekistics.
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E.
C. F. Murphy Associates
C. F. Murphy Associates was a prominent American architectural firm known for designing major civic and cultural buildings in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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management consulting firm ⓘ |
| approach |
emphasis on doing it right the first time
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measurement of quality by the cost of nonconformance ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Philip B. Crosby
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linked to:
Philip W. Crosby
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| coreConcept |
quality is free
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zero defects ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| field |
management consulting
ⓘ
quality management ⓘ |
| focus |
cost of quality
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organizational culture change for quality ⓘ prevention of defects ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Philip B. Crosby
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linked to:
Philip W. Crosby
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| industry | professional services industry ⓘ |
| influenced | corporate quality programs in the late 20th century ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Total Quality Management principles ⓘ |
| notableFor |
promoting Philip W. Crosby’s quality management principles
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promotion of the idea that “quality is free” ⓘ promotion of the “zero defects” concept ⓘ |
| offers |
consulting on zero defects implementation
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seminars on quality management ⓘ |
| philosophy |
quality improvement reduces overall costs
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quality should be defined as conformance to requirements ⓘ |
| service |
management consulting services
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organizational quality improvement programs ⓘ quality management training ⓘ |
| targetCustomer |
large corporations
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manufacturing organizations ⓘ service organizations ⓘ |
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: Philip Crosby Associates Description of subject: Philip Crosby Associates is a management consulting firm best known for promoting Philip W. Crosby’s quality management principles, including “zero defects” and the idea that quality is free.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.