Global Sourcing
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Global Sourcing is a seminal economics book by Pol Antràs that analyzes how firms organize and optimize their international production and supply chains.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Global Sourcing canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5672300 — 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: Global Sourcing Context triple: [Pol Antràs, hasNotablePublication, Global Sourcing]
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A.
Global Services
Global Services is a major Ericsson business unit that provides telecommunications operators and enterprises with a wide range of managed services, consulting, and systems integration solutions worldwide.
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B.
Oracle Sourcing
Oracle Sourcing is an Oracle E-Business Suite application that supports strategic sourcing and online negotiation processes to help organizations manage and optimize their procurement activities.
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C.
International Operations
International Operations is the Australian Federal Police division responsible for managing the agency’s overseas law enforcement activities, partnerships, and international policing missions.
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D.
Global Distribution Systems
Global Distribution Systems are large computerized networks that enable travel agencies and other distributors to access and book airline seats, hotel rooms, car rentals, and other travel services worldwide in real time.
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E.
Global Hub
Global Hub is the flagship, state-of-the-art campus building of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, designed to support collaborative, innovative business education.
- 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: Global Sourcing Target entity description: Global Sourcing is a seminal economics book by Pol Antràs that analyzes how firms organize and optimize their international production and supply chains.
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A.
Global Services
Global Services is a major Ericsson business unit that provides telecommunications operators and enterprises with a wide range of managed services, consulting, and systems integration solutions worldwide.
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B.
Oracle Sourcing
Oracle Sourcing is an Oracle E-Business Suite application that supports strategic sourcing and online negotiation processes to help organizations manage and optimize their procurement activities.
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C.
International Operations
International Operations is the Australian Federal Police division responsible for managing the agency’s overseas law enforcement activities, partnerships, and international policing missions.
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D.
Global Distribution Systems
Global Distribution Systems are large computerized networks that enable travel agencies and other distributors to access and book airline seats, hotel rooms, car rentals, and other travel services worldwide in real time.
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E.
Global Hub
Global Hub is the flagship, state-of-the-art campus building of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, designed to support collaborative, innovative business education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
economics book ⓘ |
| academicLevel | advanced ⓘ |
| appliesTheory |
incomplete-contracts models
ⓘ
property-rights models of the firm ⓘ |
| author | Pol Antràs ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| field |
global value chains
ⓘ
international business ⓘ international economics ⓘ international trade ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
location of production stages
ⓘ
optimization of global supply chains ⓘ organization of international production ⓘ ownership versus outsourcing choices ⓘ sourcing decisions of firms ⓘ |
| genre | economics ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780691209031 ⓘ |
| hasPart |
empirical chapters
ⓘ
policy discussion ⓘ theoretical chapters ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
graduate students in economics
ⓘ
policy analysts ⓘ researchers in international trade ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
ebook
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
application to trade and development issues
ⓘ
formal modeling of sourcing decisions ⓘ integrating firm theory with global value chain analysis ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| publisher | Princeton University Press ⓘ |
| subject |
contract theory
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firm boundaries ⓘ global sourcing ⓘ global supply chains ⓘ globalization ⓘ incomplete contracts ⓘ multinational firms ⓘ offshoring ⓘ organizational economics ⓘ outsourcing ⓘ property-rights theory of the firm ⓘ trade policy ⓘ vertical integration ⓘ |
| timePeriodDiscussed |
early 21st century globalization
ⓘ
late 20th century globalization ⓘ |
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: Global Sourcing Description of subject: Global Sourcing is a seminal economics book by Pol Antràs that analyzes how firms organize and optimize their international production and supply chains.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.