Elinor Ostrom
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Elinor Ostrom was an American political economist renowned for her groundbreaking work on the governance of common-pool resources, for which she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elinor Ostrom canonical | 15 |
| Elinor Ostrom (honorary doctorate, not student) | 1 |
| Ostrom | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T202872 — 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: Elinor Ostrom Context triple: [Merriam Award, notableRecipient, Elinor Ostrom]
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Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily is an American ecologist and conservation biologist renowned for pioneering the concept of ecosystem services and integrating biodiversity conservation with economic and policy decision-making.
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B.
Dana Meadows
Dana Meadows is a high-elevation alpine meadow area in Yosemite National Park, known for its scenic subalpine landscapes and proximity to Tioga Pass.
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C.
Herman Daly
Herman Daly was an influential American ecological economist known for pioneering the concept of a steady-state economy and critiquing unlimited economic growth on a finite planet.
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D.
Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell is an American microbiologist and former director of the National Science Foundation renowned for her pioneering research on cholera and environmental microbiology.
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E.
Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his work on information asymmetry, inequality, and critiques of unregulated markets.
- 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: Elinor Ostrom Target entity description: Elinor Ostrom was an American political economist renowned for her groundbreaking work on the governance of common-pool resources, for which she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
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A.
Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily is an American ecologist and conservation biologist renowned for pioneering the concept of ecosystem services and integrating biodiversity conservation with economic and policy decision-making.
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B.
Dana Meadows
Dana Meadows is a high-elevation alpine meadow area in Yosemite National Park, known for its scenic subalpine landscapes and proximity to Tioga Pass.
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C.
Herman Daly
Herman Daly was an influential American ecological economist known for pioneering the concept of a steady-state economy and critiquing unlimited economic growth on a finite planet.
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D.
Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell is an American microbiologist and former director of the National Science Foundation renowned for her pioneering research on cholera and environmental microbiology.
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E.
Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his work on information asymmetry, inequality, and critiques of unregulated markets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (68)
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: Elinor Ostrom Description of subject: Elinor Ostrom was an American political economist renowned for her groundbreaking work on the governance of common-pool resources, for which she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Merriam Award
this entity surface form:
Ostrom
this entity surface form:
Elinor Ostrom (honorary doctorate, not student)