Richard C. Levin
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Richard C. Levin is an American economist and academic leader best known for serving as the long-time president of Yale University, where he oversaw major expansions in its global and scientific initiatives.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard C. Levin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5478631 — 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 C. Levin Context triple: [President of Yale University, hasHolder, Richard C. Levin]
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A.
Richard P. Levine
Richard P. Levine is a film producer best known for his work on the World War II epic "A Bridge Too Far."
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B.
Harvey V. Fineberg
Harvey V. Fineberg is an American physician and public health scholar known for his leadership roles in major health and philanthropic institutions, including serving as president of the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine).
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C.
Zanvyl Krieger
Zanvyl Krieger was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for his major charitable contributions to educational and cultural institutions, particularly Johns Hopkins University.
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D.
Joseph L. Mailman
Joseph L. Mailman was a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose major contributions to public health led Columbia University to name its School of Public Health in his honor.
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E.
Lee Bollinger
Lee Bollinger is an American legal scholar and academic leader who served as president of Columbia University and is known for his influential role in landmark affirmative action and free speech cases.
- 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 C. Levin Target entity description: Richard C. Levin is an American economist and academic leader best known for serving as the long-time president of Yale University, where he oversaw major expansions in its global and scientific initiatives.
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A.
Richard P. Levine
Richard P. Levine is a film producer best known for his work on the World War II epic "A Bridge Too Far."
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B.
Harvey V. Fineberg
Harvey V. Fineberg is an American physician and public health scholar known for his leadership roles in major health and philanthropic institutions, including serving as president of the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine).
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C.
Zanvyl Krieger
Zanvyl Krieger was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for his major charitable contributions to educational and cultural institutions, particularly Johns Hopkins University.
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D.
Joseph L. Mailman
Joseph L. Mailman was a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose major contributions to public health led Columbia University to name its School of Public Health in his honor.
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E.
Lee Bollinger
Lee Bollinger is an American legal scholar and academic leader who served as president of Columbia University and is known for his influential role in landmark affirmative action and free speech cases.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
economist
ⓘ
human ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts
ⓘ
Bachelor of Letters ⓘ Doctor of Philosophy ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award
ⓘ
Wilbur Cross Medal ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
American Express
ⓘ
Cigna ⓘ
linked to:
Cigna Corporation
Coursera ⓘ Lucent Technologies ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Oxford University
ⓘ
linked to:
University of Oxford
Stanford University ⓘ Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | Yale University ⓘ |
| familyName | Levin ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
antitrust policy
ⓘ
economics ⓘ industrial organization ⓘ technological change ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
ⓘ
American Philosophical Society ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| name | Richard C. Levin ⓘ |
| notableFor |
expansion of Yale’s global initiatives
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expansion of Yale’s scientific initiatives ⓘ leadership in higher education ⓘ long-time presidency of Yale University ⓘ |
| notableWork |
efforts to strengthen Yale’s relationship with New Haven
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leadership in expanding Yale University’s international programs ⓘ leadership in expanding Yale University’s science and engineering programs ⓘ research on industrial research and development ⓘ research on the economics of technological change ⓘ writings on higher education policy ⓘ |
| occupation |
economist
ⓘ
professor ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Executive Officer of Coursera
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Dean of Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ⓘ President of Yale University ⓘ Professor of Economics at Yale University ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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 C. Levin Description of subject: Richard C. Levin is an American economist and academic leader best known for serving as the long-time president of Yale University, where he oversaw major expansions in its global and scientific initiatives.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.