David D. Friedman
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David D. Friedman is an American economist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist known for his work on anarcho-capitalism and the economic analysis of law.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David D. Friedman canonical | 2 |
| David Friedman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3517608 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David D. Friedman Context triple: [Rose Friedman, hasChild, David D. Friedman]
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David Friedman
David Friedman, better known professionally as David Benioff, is an American writer, screenwriter, and producer best known as the co-creator and showrunner of the television series "Game of Thrones."
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B.
Richard A. Epstein
Richard A. Epstein is a prominent American legal scholar known for his influential work in law and economics, constitutional law, and classical liberal legal theory.
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C.
Walter Block
Walter Block is an American Austrian School economist and libertarian theorist known for his radical defense of free markets and controversial positions on issues such as privatization and individual rights.
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Bruce Jay Friedman
Bruce Jay Friedman was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter known for his darkly comic works and contributions to both literature and film.
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E.
Robert P. Murphy
Robert P. Murphy is an American Austrian School economist, author, and podcaster known for his work on free-market economics, business cycle theory, and critiques of mainstream macroeconomics.
- 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: David D. Friedman Target entity description: David D. Friedman is an American economist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist known for his work on anarcho-capitalism and the economic analysis of law.
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A.
David Friedman
David Friedman, better known professionally as David Benioff, is an American writer, screenwriter, and producer best known as the co-creator and showrunner of the television series "Game of Thrones."
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B.
Richard A. Epstein
Richard A. Epstein is a prominent American legal scholar known for his influential work in law and economics, constitutional law, and classical liberal legal theory.
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C.
Walter Block
Walter Block is an American Austrian School economist and libertarian theorist known for his radical defense of free markets and controversial positions on issues such as privatization and individual rights.
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D.
Bruce Jay Friedman
Bruce Jay Friedman was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter known for his darkly comic works and contributions to both literature and film.
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E.
Robert P. Murphy
Robert P. Murphy is an American Austrian School economist, author, and podcaster known for his work on free-market economics, business cycle theory, and critiques of mainstream macroeconomics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: David D. Friedman Description of subject: David D. Friedman is an American economist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist known for his work on anarcho-capitalism and the economic analysis of law.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: David D. Friedman