Eric Maskin
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Eric Maskin is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to mechanism design theory and game theory.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eric Maskin canonical | 3 |
| Eric S. Maskin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3081221 — 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: Eric Maskin Context triple: [Jean Tirole, doctoralAdvisor, Eric Maskin]
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A.
George A. Akerlof
George A. Akerlof is an American economist and Nobel laureate best known for his work on information asymmetry and market failures, including the seminal paper "The Market for Lemons."
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B.
Oliver Hart
Oliver Hart is a British-American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on contract theory and the theory of the firm.
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C.
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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D.
Kenneth Arrow
Kenneth Arrow was a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his foundational contributions to social choice theory and general equilibrium economics.
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E.
Lars Peter Hansen
Lars Peter Hansen is an American economist renowned for his work in econometrics and asset pricing, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
- 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: Eric Maskin Target entity description: Eric Maskin is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to mechanism design theory and game theory.
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A.
George A. Akerlof
George A. Akerlof is an American economist and Nobel laureate best known for his work on information asymmetry and market failures, including the seminal paper "The Market for Lemons."
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B.
Oliver Hart
Oliver Hart is a British-American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on contract theory and the theory of the firm.
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C.
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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D.
Kenneth Arrow
Kenneth Arrow was a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his foundational contributions to social choice theory and general equilibrium economics.
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E.
Lars Peter Hansen
Lars Peter Hansen is an American economist renowned for his work in econometrics and asset pricing, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
- 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: Eric Maskin Description of subject: Eric Maskin is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to mechanism design theory and game theory.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Eric Maskin