Stewart Myers
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Stewart Myers is a prominent American economist and finance scholar best known for his foundational work in corporate finance theory, including the pecking order theory of capital structure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stewart Myers canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6131494 — 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: Stewart Myers Context triple: [Raghuram Rajan, doctoralAdvisor, Stewart Myers]
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Robert Kravis
Robert Kravis is a film producer best known for his work on the crime thriller "Lucky Number Slevin."
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B.
Henry Kravis
Henry Kravis is an American billionaire businessman and co-founder of the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), known as a pioneer of leveraged buyouts.
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C.
Leo Fuld
Leo Fuld was a Dutch Jewish singer and songwriter renowned for his emotive performances of Yiddish songs and his role in popularizing Jewish music internationally in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Bob Feerick
Bob Feerick was an early professional basketball star and player-coach in the Basketball Association of America (a precursor to the NBA), known for his scoring and leadership in the late 1940s.
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E.
Joe Masteroff
Joe Masteroff was an American playwright and librettist best known for writing the book for the musical "Cabaret."
- 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: Stewart Myers Target entity description: Stewart Myers is a prominent American economist and finance scholar best known for his foundational work in corporate finance theory, including the pecking order theory of capital structure.
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A.
Robert Kravis
Robert Kravis is a film producer best known for his work on the crime thriller "Lucky Number Slevin."
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B.
Henry Kravis
Henry Kravis is an American billionaire businessman and co-founder of the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), known as a pioneer of leveraged buyouts.
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C.
Leo Fuld
Leo Fuld was a Dutch Jewish singer and songwriter renowned for his emotive performances of Yiddish songs and his role in popularizing Jewish music internationally in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Bob Feerick
Bob Feerick was an early professional basketball star and player-coach in the Basketball Association of America (a precursor to the NBA), known for his scoring and leadership in the late 1940s.
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E.
Joe Masteroff
Joe Masteroff was an American playwright and librettist best known for writing the book for the musical "Cabaret."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
economist
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finance scholar ⓘ person ⓘ |
| authorOf | Principles of Corporate Finance ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Franklin Allen
ⓘ
Richard A. Brealey ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Stanford University
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University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
capital structure theory
ⓘ
corporate finance ⓘ financial economics ⓘ |
| genre | academic literature ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
economics
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finance ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
capital structure research
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modern corporate finance practice ⓘ |
| hasRole | theorist of corporate investment and financing decisions ⓘ |
| knownFor |
pecking order theory of capital structure
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research in corporate finance theory ⓘ work on capital structure ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Finance Association ⓘ |
| notableConcept | pecking order theory ⓘ |
| occupation |
professor
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researcher ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| workInstitution | MIT Sloan School of Management ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Stewart Myers Description of subject: Stewart Myers is a prominent American economist and finance scholar best known for his foundational work in corporate finance theory, including the pecking order theory of capital structure.
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