Antoine Augustin Cournot
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Antoine Augustin Cournot was a 19th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and economist best known for pioneering the mathematical analysis of markets and oligopoly in economics.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Antoine Augustin Cournot Context triple: [Léon Walras, influencedBy, Antoine Augustin Cournot]
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A.
Leon Walras
Leon Walras was a 19th-century French economist best known for founding the theory of general equilibrium and helping establish neoclassical economics.
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B.
Jean-Baptiste Say
Jean-Baptiste Say was a French classical economist best known for formulating Say’s Law, which posits that supply creates its own demand.
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C.
Thomas Jevons
Thomas Jevons was the father of British economist and logician William Stanley Jevons, belonging to the family background that influenced his son's early life and education.
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D.
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth was a pioneering Irish economist and statistician known for his foundational contributions to microeconomic theory, welfare economics, and the development of mathematical economics.
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E.
William Stanley Jevons
William Stanley Jevons was a 19th-century English economist and logician known as a founder of the marginal revolution in economics and for his work on utility theory and the theory of value.
- 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: Antoine Augustin Cournot Target entity description: Antoine Augustin Cournot was a 19th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and economist best known for pioneering the mathematical analysis of markets and oligopoly in economics.
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A.
Leon Walras
Leon Walras was a 19th-century French economist best known for founding the theory of general equilibrium and helping establish neoclassical economics.
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B.
Jean-Baptiste Say
Jean-Baptiste Say was a French classical economist best known for formulating Say’s Law, which posits that supply creates its own demand.
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C.
Thomas Jevons
Thomas Jevons was the father of British economist and logician William Stanley Jevons, belonging to the family background that influenced his son's early life and education.
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D.
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth was a pioneering Irish economist and statistician known for his foundational contributions to microeconomic theory, welfare economics, and the development of mathematical economics.
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E.
William Stanley Jevons
William Stanley Jevons was a 19th-century English economist and logician known as a founder of the marginal revolution in economics and for his work on utility theory and the theory of value.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
economist
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human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1801-08-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1877-03-31 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Paris
NERFINISHED
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École Normale Supérieure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Academy of Besançon
NERFINISHED
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University of Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Cournot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
economics
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mathematics ⓘ philosophy ⓘ political economy ⓘ probability theory ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName |
Antoine
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Augustin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Joseph Bertrand
NERFINISHED
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Léon Walras NERFINISHED ⓘ modern microeconomics ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Adam Smith
NERFINISHED
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange NERFINISHED ⓘ Pierre-Simon Laplace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Cournot competition
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Cournot duopoly model ⓘ application of calculus to economic theory ⓘ mathematical economics ⓘ oligopoly theory ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
market structure
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oligopoly ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ probability ⓘ |
| movement | classical economics ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Essai sur les fondements de nos connaissances et sur les caractères de la critique philosophique
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Exposition de la théorie des chances et des probabilités NERFINISHED ⓘ Recherches sur les principes mathématiques de la théorie des richesses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
France
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Gray, Haute-Saône NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
France
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Paris ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
inspector general of public instruction
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professor of analysis and mechanics at the University of Lyon ⓘ rector of the Academy of Grenoble ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1838 ⓘ |
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Referenced by (1)
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subject surface form:
Léon Walras