James A. Mirrlees
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James A. Mirrlees was a Scottish economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the theory of incentives and asymmetric information in economic policy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James A. Mirrlees canonical | 1 |
| Sir James Mirrlees | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13512001 — 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: James A. Mirrlees Context triple: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, James A. Mirrlees]
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A.
Eric Maskin
Eric Maskin is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to mechanism design theory and game theory.
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B.
Robert A. Mundell
Robert A. Mundell was a Canadian economist and Nobel laureate renowned as the "father of the euro" for his pioneering work on optimum currency areas and international macroeconomics.
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C.
Peter A. Diamond
Peter A. Diamond is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on labor markets, social insurance, and dynamic economic theory.
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D.
Lars Peter Hansen
Lars Peter Hansen is an American economist renowned for his work in econometrics and asset pricing, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
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E.
Leonid Hurwicz
Leonid Hurwicz was a Polish-American economist and mathematician best known as a pioneer of mechanism design theory and a Nobel Memorial Prize laureate in Economic Sciences.
- 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: James A. Mirrlees Target entity description: James A. Mirrlees was a Scottish economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the theory of incentives and asymmetric information in economic policy.
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A.
Eric Maskin
Eric Maskin is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to mechanism design theory and game theory.
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B.
Robert A. Mundell
Robert A. Mundell was a Canadian economist and Nobel laureate renowned as the "father of the euro" for his pioneering work on optimum currency areas and international macroeconomics.
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C.
Peter A. Diamond
Peter A. Diamond is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on labor markets, social insurance, and dynamic economic theory.
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D.
Lars Peter Hansen
Lars Peter Hansen is an American economist renowned for his work in econometrics and asset pricing, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
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E.
Leonid Hurwicz
Leonid Hurwicz was a Polish-American economist and mathematician best known as a pioneer of mechanism design theory and a Nobel Memorial Prize laureate in Economic Sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate in Economics
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economist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Knight Bachelor
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Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ⓘ Nobel Prize in Economics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Peter A. Diamond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Scotland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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| educatedAt |
Trinity College, Cambridge
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Cambridge University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
University of Edinburgh ⓘ |
| employer |
Chinese University of Hong Kong
NERFINISHED
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Nuffield College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ Trinity College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Cambridge University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
University of Oxford ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Mirrlees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
economics
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information economics ⓘ optimal taxation ⓘ public economics ⓘ welfare economics ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Mirrlees model of optimal income taxation
NERFINISHED
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asymmetric information in economic policy ⓘ theory of incentives ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
British Academy
NERFINISHED
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Econometric Society NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Society of Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Alexander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | James A. Mirrlees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeDiscipline | Economic Sciences NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
incentive-compatible mechanism design in taxation
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optimal income tax theory ⓘ |
| notableWork | An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
economist
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university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Cambridge, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Distinguished Professor-at-Large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Edgeworth Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sharedNobelPrizeWith | William Vickrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Subject: James A. Mirrlees Description of subject: James A. Mirrlees was a Scottish economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the theory of incentives and asymmetric information in economic policy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sir James Mirrlees