Paul Krugman
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Paul Krugman is an American economist, Nobel laureate, and prominent public intellectual known for his work in international trade theory and his influential economic commentary.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Krugman canonical | 27 |
| Krugman | 2 |
| Paul Krugman op-eds | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2000430 — 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: Paul Krugman Context triple: [John Bates Clark Medal, notableRecipient, Paul Krugman]
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A.
Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his work on information asymmetry, inequality, and critiques of unregulated markets.
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Gregory Mankiw
Gregory Mankiw is an American economist known for his influential work in macroeconomics, particularly in developing New Keynesian theory, and for authoring widely used economics textbooks.
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C.
David Romer
David Romer is an influential American macroeconomist known for his work on New Keynesian economics, advanced macroeconomic theory, and widely used graduate-level textbooks.
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D.
Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik is a prominent Turkish economist known for his influential work on globalization, economic development, and the political economy of policy reform.
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E.
Michael Spence
Michael Spence is an Australian legal scholar and university leader who has served as the head of major universities, including University College London.
- 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: Paul Krugman Target entity description: Paul Krugman is an American economist, Nobel laureate, and prominent public intellectual known for his work in international trade theory and his influential economic commentary.
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A.
Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his work on information asymmetry, inequality, and critiques of unregulated markets.
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B.
Gregory Mankiw
Gregory Mankiw is an American economist known for his influential work in macroeconomics, particularly in developing New Keynesian theory, and for authoring widely used economics textbooks.
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C.
David Romer
David Romer is an influential American macroeconomist known for his work on New Keynesian economics, advanced macroeconomic theory, and widely used graduate-level textbooks.
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D.
Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik is a prominent Turkish economist known for his influential work on globalization, economic development, and the political economy of policy reform.
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E.
Michael Spence
Michael Spence is an Australian legal scholar and university leader who has served as the head of major universities, including University College London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (68)
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: Paul Krugman Description of subject: Paul Krugman is an American economist, Nobel laureate, and prominent public intellectual known for his work in international trade theory and his influential economic commentary.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Paul Krugman (honorary doctorate, not student)
subject linked to:
Paul Krugman (honorary doctorate, not student)
linked to: Paul Krugman
linked to: Paul Krugman
subject linked to:
The Return of Depression Economics
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Contra Krugman (podcast)
linked to: Paul Krugman