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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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6363767 — 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: 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.
NED2
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
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Instruction
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Subject: Antoine Augustin Cournot Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (1)
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subject linked to:
Leon Walras