Richard H. Thaler
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Richard H. Thaler is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist known for pioneering behavioral economics and co-developing the concept of "nudge" theory.
All labels observed (1)
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2704486 — 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: Richard H. Thaler Context triple: [Cass Sunstein, coAuthor, Richard H. Thaler]
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Robert J. Shiller
Robert J. Shiller is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on asset prices, financial bubbles, and behavioral finance.
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Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in financial economics and the mathematical modeling of derivatives.
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C.
Thomas J. Sargent
Thomas J. Sargent is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational work in macroeconomics, particularly in rational expectations and dynamic macroeconomic theory.
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D.
Eugene Fama
Eugene Fama is an American economist renowned as a leading figure in the Chicago School and a pioneer of modern finance, particularly for his work on efficient markets and asset pricing.
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E.
Edward C. Prescott
Edward C. Prescott was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on real business cycle theory and time consistency in economic policy.
- 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: Richard H. Thaler Target entity description: Richard H. Thaler is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist known for pioneering behavioral economics and co-developing the concept of "nudge" theory.
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A.
Robert J. Shiller
Robert J. Shiller is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on asset prices, financial bubbles, and behavioral finance.
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B.
Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in financial economics and the mathematical modeling of derivatives.
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C.
Thomas J. Sargent
Thomas J. Sargent is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational work in macroeconomics, particularly in rational expectations and dynamic macroeconomic theory.
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D.
Eugene Fama
Eugene Fama is an American economist renowned as a leading figure in the Chicago School and a pioneer of modern finance, particularly for his work on efficient markets and asset pricing.
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E.
Edward C. Prescott
Edward C. Prescott was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on real business cycle theory and time consistency in economic policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Richard H. Thaler Description of subject: Richard H. Thaler is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist known for pioneering behavioral economics and co-developing the concept of "nudge" theory.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.