George Stigler
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George Stigler was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on industrial organization, the economics of regulation, and the history of economic thought.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| George Stigler canonical | 10 |
| George J. Stigler | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2848057 — 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: George Stigler Context triple: [Mont Pelerin Society, foundedBy, George Stigler]
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Arnold Harberger
Arnold Harberger is an influential American economist known for his work on welfare economics, cost-benefit analysis, and the measurement of deadweight loss, and as a prominent figure of the Chicago School of economics.
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B.
Frank Knight
Frank Knight was an influential American economist and founding figure of the Chicago School, best known for his work on risk, uncertainty, and profit.
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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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D.
Jacob Viner
Jacob Viner was a prominent 20th-century economist known for his influential work in international trade theory, public finance, and his role in shaping modern economic thought.
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E.
John Bates Clark
John Bates Clark was an influential American economist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his work on marginal productivity theory and the distribution of income.
- 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: George Stigler Target entity description: George Stigler was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on industrial organization, the economics of regulation, and the history of economic thought.
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A.
Arnold Harberger
Arnold Harberger is an influential American economist known for his work on welfare economics, cost-benefit analysis, and the measurement of deadweight loss, and as a prominent figure of the Chicago School of economics.
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B.
Frank Knight
Frank Knight was an influential American economist and founding figure of the Chicago School, best known for his work on risk, uncertainty, and profit.
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C.
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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D.
Jacob Viner
Jacob Viner was a prominent 20th-century economist known for his influential work in international trade theory, public finance, and his role in shaping modern economic thought.
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E.
John Bates Clark
John Bates Clark was an influential American economist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his work on marginal productivity theory and the distribution of income.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: George Stigler Description of subject: George Stigler was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on industrial organization, the economics of regulation, and the history of economic thought.
Referenced by (13)
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