Michael Spence
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Michael Spence is an Australian legal scholar and university leader who has served as the head of major universities, including University College London.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Spence canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1504422 — 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: Michael Spence Context triple: [University College London, provost, Michael Spence]
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A.
Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his work on information asymmetry, inequality, and critiques of unregulated markets.
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B.
Glenn Hubbard
Glenn Hubbard is an American economist and academic leader known for serving as dean of Columbia Business School and as a former chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers.
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C.
David Romer
David Romer is an influential American macroeconomist known for his work on New Keynesian economics, advanced macroeconomic theory, and widely used graduate-level textbooks.
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D.
Pol Antràs
Pol Antràs is a Spanish economist known for his influential research on international trade, global value chains, and firm organization, and for serving as a professor of economics at Harvard University.
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E.
Edward C. Prescott
Edward C. Prescott was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on real business cycle theory and time consistency in economic policy.
- 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: Michael Spence Target entity description: Michael Spence is an Australian legal scholar and university leader who has served as the head of major universities, including University College London.
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A.
Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his work on information asymmetry, inequality, and critiques of unregulated markets.
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B.
Glenn Hubbard
Glenn Hubbard is an American economist and academic leader known for serving as dean of Columbia Business School and as a former chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers.
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C.
David Romer
David Romer is an influential American macroeconomist known for his work on New Keynesian economics, advanced macroeconomic theory, and widely used graduate-level textbooks.
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D.
Pol Antràs
Pol Antràs is a Spanish economist known for his influential research on international trade, global value chains, and firm organization, and for serving as a professor of economics at Harvard University.
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E.
Edward C. Prescott
Edward C. Prescott was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on real business cycle theory and time consistency in economic policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic administrator
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human ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ university leader ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Oxford
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University of Sydney ⓘ |
| employer |
University College London
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University of Sydney ⓘ |
| familyName | Spence ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
law
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theology ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
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legal theory ⓘ university administration ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| isAlive | true ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Michael Spence ⓘ |
| nationality | Australian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to legal scholarship
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leadership of major universities ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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legal scholar ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
President and Provost of University College London
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Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney ⓘ head of University College London ⓘ head of the University of Sydney ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
Sydney ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Michael Spence Description of subject: Michael Spence is an Australian legal scholar and university leader who has served as the head of major universities, including University College London.
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