Charles Phelps
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Charles Phelps is an American academic and economist best known for serving as provost of the University of Rochester and for his work in health economics and public policy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Phelps canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4997156 — 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: Charles Phelps Context triple: [Bacon Academy, hasAlumnus, Charles Phelps]
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A.
Ephraim Bull
Ephraim Bull was a 19th-century American horticulturist best known for developing the Concord grape, one of the first widely successful American table and wine grapes.
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B.
Samuel Ward
Samuel Ward was a 19th-century American banker and art patron known for commissioning significant works such as Thomas Cole’s "The Voyage of Life" series.
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C.
Samuel Weaver
Samuel Weaver was the teenage son of Randy Weaver who was fatally shot by U.S. marshals during the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho.
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D.
Charles Hackley
Charles Hackley was a prominent 19th-century lumber baron and philanthropist from Muskegon, Michigan, known for his significant contributions to the city’s cultural and educational institutions.
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E.
Moses Taylor
Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
- 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: Charles Phelps Target entity description: Charles Phelps is an American academic and economist best known for serving as provost of the University of Rochester and for his work in health economics and public policy.
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A.
Ephraim Bull
Ephraim Bull was a 19th-century American horticulturist best known for developing the Concord grape, one of the first widely successful American table and wine grapes.
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B.
Samuel Ward
Samuel Ward was a 19th-century American banker and art patron known for commissioning significant works such as Thomas Cole’s "The Voyage of Life" series.
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C.
Samuel Weaver
Samuel Weaver was the teenage son of Randy Weaver who was fatally shot by U.S. marshals during the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho.
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D.
Charles Hackley
Charles Hackley was a prominent 19th-century lumber baron and philanthropist from Muskegon, Michigan, known for his significant contributions to the city’s cultural and educational institutions.
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E.
Moses Taylor
Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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economist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in economics ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
United States health policy
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linked to:
United States healthcare system
health insurance policy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Pomona College
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University of Chicago ⓘ |
| employer | University of Rochester ⓘ |
| familyName | Phelps ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
economics of health care
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health economics ⓘ public policy ⓘ |
| genre | academic writing ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
cost-benefit analysis
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health insurance ⓘ medical care demand ⓘ regulation of health care markets ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | faculty of the University of Rochester ⓘ |
| notableWork |
contributions to health economics
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research on health care policy ⓘ work on cost-effectiveness analysis in health care ⓘ |
| occupation |
professor
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university administrator ⓘ |
| positionHeld | provost of the University of Rochester ⓘ |
| workLocation | Rochester, New York ⓘ |
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: Charles Phelps Description of subject: Charles Phelps is an American academic and economist best known for serving as provost of the University of Rochester and for his work in health economics and public policy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.