Hunt Allcott
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Hunt Allcott is an economist known for his research on behavioral economics, energy efficiency, and public policy.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hunt Allcott Context triple: [Matthew Gentzkow, coAuthor, Hunt Allcott]
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Michael Shrieve
Michael Shrieve is an American drummer and percussionist best known for his work with Santana, including his iconic performance at Woodstock and contributions to their classic early albums.
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B.
Alec Coppel
Alec Coppel was an Australian-born screenwriter and playwright best known for his work on classic suspense films, including contributing to the script of Alfred Hitchcock’s "Vertigo."
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C.
Christopher Charles Geppert
Christopher Charles Geppert, better known as Christopher Cross, is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist famed for his soft rock hits like "Sailing" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" that dominated the early 1980s.
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D.
Christian Broun
Christian Broun was a Scottish noblewoman best known as the mother of James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, who served as Governor-General of India in the mid-19th century.
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E.
Dan Sullivan
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hunt Allcott Target entity description: Hunt Allcott is an economist known for his research on behavioral economics, energy efficiency, and public policy.
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A.
Michael Shrieve
Michael Shrieve is an American drummer and percussionist best known for his work with Santana, including his iconic performance at Woodstock and contributions to their classic early albums.
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B.
Alec Coppel
Alec Coppel was an Australian-born screenwriter and playwright best known for his work on classic suspense films, including contributing to the script of Alfred Hitchcock’s "Vertigo."
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C.
Christopher Charles Geppert
Christopher Charles Geppert, better known as Christopher Cross, is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist famed for his soft rock hits like "Sailing" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" that dominated the early 1980s.
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D.
Christian Broun
Christian Broun was a Scottish noblewoman best known as the mother of James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, who served as Governor-General of India in the mid-19th century.
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E.
Dan Sullivan
Dan Sullivan is a Republican U.S. Senator from Alaska, known for his work on national security, energy policy, and Arctic issues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
economist
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person ⓘ |
| affiliation | National Bureau of Economic Research ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Cass Sunstein
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Dmitry Taubinsky NERFINISHED ⓘ Judith Chevalier ⓘ Michael Greenstone ⓘ Sendhil Mullainathan ⓘ Todd Rogers ⓘ |
| doctoralThesisTitle | Essays in Energy and Environmental Economics ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Duke University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| employer |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Microsoft Research ⓘ New York University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
behavioral economics
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energy economics ⓘ environmental economics ⓘ public economics ⓘ public policy ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Daron Acemoglu ⓘ |
| hasPublishedIn |
American Economic Review
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Journal of Economic Perspectives ⓘ Journal of Public Economics ⓘ Quarterly Journal of Economics ⓘ Review of Economics and Statistics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
research on behavioral interventions in energy use
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research on digital advertising and consumer behavior ⓘ research on energy efficiency programs ⓘ research on social norms and energy consumption ⓘ research on the energy efficiency gap ⓘ research on the social cost of carbon ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
professor
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researcher ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of Economics ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
behavioral economics
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consumer behavior ⓘ development economics ⓘ energy efficiency ⓘ environmental policy ⓘ |
| role | Research Associate at NBER ⓘ |
| studies |
effects of information disclosure on consumer choices
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household responses to energy pricing ⓘ policy design under bounded rationality ⓘ welfare implications of behavioral biases ⓘ |
| worksAt |
New York University Department of Economics
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linked to:
Department of Economics, New York University
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