Bengt Holmström (studies, later MIT)
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Bengt Holmström is a Finnish economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational work in contract theory and his long tenure as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
All labels observed (1)
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1510290 — 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: Bengt Holmström (studies, later MIT) Context triple: [Uppsala University, hasNotableAlumnus, Bengt Holmström (studies, later MIT)]
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Oliver E. Williamson
Oliver E. Williamson was an American economist renowned for his pioneering work on transaction cost economics and the theory of the firm, for which he shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
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Ronald Coase
Ronald Coase was a British economist and Nobel laureate best known for his work on transaction costs, property rights, and the nature of the firm, which became foundational to law and economics and the Chicago School tradition.
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Pol Antràs
Pol Antràs is a Spanish economist known for his influential research on international trade, global value chains, and firm organization, and for serving as a professor of economics at Harvard University.
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Theodore Schultz
Theodore Schultz was an American economist and Nobel laureate known for his pioneering work on human capital theory and agricultural economics within the Chicago School tradition.
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Gary Becker
Gary Becker was an influential American economist and Nobel laureate known for applying economic analysis to a wide range of human behaviors, including crime, discrimination, and family decisions.
- 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: Bengt Holmström (studies, later MIT) Target entity description: Bengt Holmström is a Finnish economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational work in contract theory and his long tenure as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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A.
Oliver E. Williamson
Oliver E. Williamson was an American economist renowned for his pioneering work on transaction cost economics and the theory of the firm, for which he shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
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B.
Ronald Coase
Ronald Coase was a British economist and Nobel laureate best known for his work on transaction costs, property rights, and the nature of the firm, which became foundational to law and economics and the Chicago School tradition.
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C.
Pol Antràs
Pol Antràs is a Spanish economist known for his influential research on international trade, global value chains, and firm organization, and for serving as a professor of economics at Harvard University.
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D.
Theodore Schultz
Theodore Schultz was an American economist and Nobel laureate known for his pioneering work on human capital theory and agricultural economics within the Chicago School tradition.
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E.
Gary Becker
Gary Becker was an influential American economist and Nobel laureate known for applying economic analysis to a wide range of human behaviors, including crime, discrimination, and family decisions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Bengt Holmström (studies, later MIT) Description of subject: Bengt Holmström is a Finnish economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational work in contract theory and his long tenure as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.