Cass Sunstein
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administrative law scholar
author
constitutional law scholar
human
legal scholar
public intellectual
university teacher
Cass Sunstein is an American legal scholar and Harvard Law professor known for his influential work on constitutional law, behavioral economics, and public policy, including the concept of "nudge."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cass R. Sunstein | 11 |
| Cass Sunstein canonical | 7 |
| Sunstein | 2 |
| Declan Power Sunstein | 1 |
| Rían Power Sunstein | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T472629 — 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: Cass Sunstein Context triple: [Samantha Power, spouse, Cass Sunstein]
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A.
Michael S. Barr
Michael S. Barr is an American legal scholar and policymaker who serves as a key U.S. financial regulator, overseeing banking supervision and financial stability at the Federal Reserve.
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B.
Gary King
Gary King is a prominent American political scientist and quantitative methodologist at Harvard University, known for his influential work in statistical methods for social science research.
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C.
Jeff Gitelman
Jeff Gitelman is a Grammy-nominated guitarist, songwriter, and record producer known for his work with major artists across R&B, pop, and hip-hop.
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D.
Lawrence Weingarten
Lawrence Weingarten was an American film producer best known for his work at MGM during Hollywood’s classic studio era, overseeing numerous popular comedies and dramas.
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E.
James Q. Wilson
James Q. Wilson was a prominent American political scientist best known for his work on crime, policing, and public policy, including the influential "broken windows" theory.
- 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: Cass Sunstein Target entity description: Cass Sunstein is an American legal scholar and Harvard Law professor known for his influential work on constitutional law, behavioral economics, and public policy, including the concept of "nudge."
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A.
Michael S. Barr
Michael S. Barr is an American legal scholar and policymaker who serves as a key U.S. financial regulator, overseeing banking supervision and financial stability at the Federal Reserve.
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B.
Gary King
Gary King is a prominent American political scientist and quantitative methodologist at Harvard University, known for his influential work in statistical methods for social science research.
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C.
Jeff Gitelman
Jeff Gitelman is a Grammy-nominated guitarist, songwriter, and record producer known for his work with major artists across R&B, pop, and hip-hop.
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D.
Lawrence Weingarten
Lawrence Weingarten was an American film producer best known for his work at MGM during Hollywood’s classic studio era, overseeing numerous popular comedies and dramas.
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E.
James Q. Wilson
James Q. Wilson was a prominent American political scientist best known for his work on crime, policing, and public policy, including the influential "broken windows" theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative law scholar
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author ⓘ constitutional law scholar ⓘ human ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ public intellectual ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
United States public policy
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regulatory policy ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Richard H. Thaler ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard College
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linked to:
Harvard University
Harvard Law School ⓘ |
| employer |
Harvard Law School
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Harvard University ⓘ |
| familyName |
Sunstein
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linked to:
Cass Sunstein
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| fieldOfWork |
administrative law
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behavioral economics ⓘ behavioral public policy ⓘ constitutional law ⓘ law and economics ⓘ public policy ⓘ |
| givenName | Cass ⓘ |
| influenced | public policy design based on behavioral insights ⓘ |
| influencedBy | behavioral economics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developing and popularizing the concept of nudge in public policy
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scholarship on behavioral law and economics ⓘ scholarship on constitutional law ⓘ work on libertarian paternalism ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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American Law Institute ⓘ |
| name | Cass Sunstein ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness ⓘ Republic.com ⓘ Simpler: The Future of Government ⓘ The Cost-Benefit Revolution ⓘ |
| occupation |
government official
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law professor ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
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Professor at Harvard Law School ⓘ Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
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: Cass Sunstein Description of subject: Cass Sunstein is an American legal scholar and Harvard Law professor known for his influential work on constitutional law, behavioral economics, and public policy, including the concept of "nudge."
Referenced by (22)
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Daniel Kahneman (honorary doctorate, not student)
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