Steven Levitt
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Steven Levitt is an American economist and co-author of "Freakonomics," known for applying economic theory and data analysis to unconventional real-world topics.
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| Steven D. Levitt | 15 |
| Steven Levitt canonical | 5 |
| American economist Steven D. Levitt | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2000431 — 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: Steven Levitt Context triple: [John Bates Clark Medal, notableRecipient, Steven Levitt]
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James Heckman
James Heckman is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his work on econometrics and the economics of human development, particularly the importance of early childhood education and skill formation.
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Gary Becker
Gary Becker was an influential American economist and Nobel laureate known for applying economic analysis to a wide range of human behaviors, including crime, discrimination, and family decisions.
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William O. Wooldridge
William O. Wooldridge was a United States Army noncommissioned officer who became the first Sergeant Major of the Army, serving as the senior enlisted advisor to the Army’s leadership.
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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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Daron Acemoglu
Daron Acemoglu is a prominent Turkish-American economist known for his influential work on political economy, institutions, and economic development, and as co-author of the book "Why Nations Fail."
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- 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: Steven Levitt Target entity description: Steven Levitt is an American economist and co-author of "Freakonomics," known for applying economic theory and data analysis to unconventional real-world topics.
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A.
James Heckman
James Heckman is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his work on econometrics and the economics of human development, particularly the importance of early childhood education and skill formation.
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B.
Gary Becker
Gary Becker was an influential American economist and Nobel laureate known for applying economic analysis to a wide range of human behaviors, including crime, discrimination, and family decisions.
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C.
William O. Wooldridge
William O. Wooldridge was a United States Army noncommissioned officer who became the first Sergeant Major of the Army, serving as the senior enlisted advisor to the Army’s leadership.
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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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Daron Acemoglu
Daron Acemoglu is a prominent Turkish-American economist known for his influential work on political economy, institutions, and economic development, and as co-author of the book "Why Nations Fail."
- F. None of above. chosen
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How these facts were elicited
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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: Steven Levitt Description of subject: Steven Levitt is an American economist and co-author of "Freakonomics," known for applying economic theory and data analysis to unconventional real-world topics.
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William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics
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Freakonomics Radio (as co-creator of the franchise)
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Freakonomics Radio (as co-creator of the franchise)
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