Nancy Folbre
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Nancy Folbre is an American feminist economist known for her influential work on the economics of care, gender, and the family.
All labels observed (1)
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| Nancy Folbre canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1098980 — 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: Nancy Folbre Context triple: [Leontief Prize, notableLaureate, Nancy Folbre]
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A.
Nancy Fraser
Nancy Fraser is an American critical theorist and feminist philosopher known for her influential work on social justice, redistribution and recognition, and critiques of contemporary capitalism and democracy.
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B.
Joan W. Scott
Joan W. Scott is an influential American historian and feminist theorist renowned for her pioneering work on gender as a category of historical analysis.
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C.
Kathleen Middlekauff
Kathleen Middlekauff is an American academic and former spouse of investigative journalist and author Bob Woodward.
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D.
Seyla Benhabib
Seyla Benhabib is a prominent contemporary political philosopher known for her work on deliberative democracy, cosmopolitanism, and feminist theory.
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E.
Bina Agarwal
Bina Agarwal is an Indian development economist and feminist scholar renowned for her pioneering work on gender, land rights, and environmental governance.
- 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: Nancy Folbre Target entity description: Nancy Folbre is an American feminist economist known for her influential work on the economics of care, gender, and the family.
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A.
Nancy Fraser
Nancy Fraser is an American critical theorist and feminist philosopher known for her influential work on social justice, redistribution and recognition, and critiques of contemporary capitalism and democracy.
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B.
Joan W. Scott
Joan W. Scott is an influential American historian and feminist theorist renowned for her pioneering work on gender as a category of historical analysis.
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C.
Kathleen Middlekauff
Kathleen Middlekauff is an American academic and former spouse of investigative journalist and author Bob Woodward.
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D.
Seyla Benhabib
Seyla Benhabib is a prominent contemporary political philosopher known for her work on deliberative democracy, cosmopolitanism, and feminist theory.
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E.
Bina Agarwal
Bina Agarwal is an Indian development economist and feminist scholar renowned for her pioneering work on gender, land rights, and environmental governance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Nancy Folbre Description of subject: Nancy Folbre is an American feminist economist known for her influential work on the economics of care, gender, and the family.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.