Duflo
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Duflo is the surname of Esther Duflo, a Nobel Prize–winning French economist renowned for her experimental approach to development economics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Duflo canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7652195 — 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: Duflo Context triple: [Esther Duflo, familyName, Duflo]
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A.
Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil
Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil was a French tennis player and longtime partner and later wife of writer Samuel Beckett, known for her crucial support of his life and work.
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B.
Préféte Duffaut
Préféte Duffaut was a renowned Haitian painter celebrated for his imaginative, dreamlike cityscapes and significant contributions to Haitian naïve art.
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C.
Marie-Claire Alain
Marie-Claire Alain was a renowned French organist and pedagogue, celebrated especially for her authoritative interpretations and recordings of J.S. Bach’s organ works.
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D.
Serre-Chevalier
Serre-Chevalier is a major ski resort in the French Alps, renowned for its extensive slopes, sunny climate, and traditional mountain villages.
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E.
Catherine Thierry
Catherine Thierry was a French colonial-era woman best known as the mother of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, a key founder and governor of French Louisiana.
- 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: Duflo Target entity description: Duflo is the surname of Esther Duflo, a Nobel Prize–winning French economist renowned for her experimental approach to development economics.
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A.
Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil
Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil was a French tennis player and longtime partner and later wife of writer Samuel Beckett, known for her crucial support of his life and work.
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B.
Préféte Duffaut
Préféte Duffaut was a renowned Haitian painter celebrated for his imaginative, dreamlike cityscapes and significant contributions to Haitian naïve art.
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C.
Marie-Claire Alain
Marie-Claire Alain was a renowned French organist and pedagogue, celebrated especially for her authoritative interpretations and recordings of J.S. Bach’s organ works.
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D.
Serre-Chevalier
Serre-Chevalier is a major ski resort in the French Alps, renowned for its extensive slopes, sunny climate, and traditional mountain villages.
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E.
Catherine Thierry
Catherine Thierry was a French colonial-era woman best known as the mother of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, a key founder and governor of French Louisiana.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences
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economist ⓘ human ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | J-PAL co-founder ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
A.SK Social Science Award
NERFINISHED
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BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Development Cooperation NERFINISHED ⓘ Infosys Prize in Social Sciences (Economics) NERFINISHED ⓘ John Bates Clark Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ⓘ Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Abhijit Banerjee
NERFINISHED
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Michael Kremer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
France
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1972-10-25 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor |
Abhijit Banerjee
NERFINISHED
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Joshua Angrist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Paris School of Economics NERFINISHED ⓘ École Normale Supérieure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| familyName | Duflo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
development economics
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experimental economics ⓘ microeconomics ⓘ poverty alleviation ⓘ |
| givenName | Esther NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeMotivation | experimental approach to alleviating global poverty ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeSharedWith |
Abhijit Banerjee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Kremer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| notableIdea | use of randomized controlled trials in development economics ⓘ |
| notableWork | Poor Economics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Paris ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of Economics at MIT ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Abhijit Banerjee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
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: Duflo Description of subject: Duflo is the surname of Esther Duflo, a Nobel Prize–winning French economist renowned for her experimental approach to development economics.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Esther Duflo