Robin Wells
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Robin Wells is an American economist and textbook author known for co-authoring widely used economics textbooks, often in collaboration with Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robin Wells canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7652133 — 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: Robin Wells Context triple: [Paul Krugman, spouse, Robin Wells]
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A.
Greg Gilmore
Greg Gilmore is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the late-1980s Seattle band Mother Love Bone, a key precursor to the grunge movement.
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B.
Michele Hollister
Michele Hollister is a film editor known for her work on the 1999 drama film "Sunshine."
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C.
Leon Wilkeson
Leon Wilkeson was the longtime bassist for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, known for his melodic playing and distinctive stage presence.
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D.
Robb Wells
Robb Wells is a Canadian actor and screenwriter best known for his role as Ricky on the mockumentary television series "Trailer Park Boys."
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E.
Michael Wells
Michael Wells is a musician best known as a member of the American alternative country/rock band The Walkabouts.
- 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: Robin Wells Target entity description: Robin Wells is an American economist and textbook author known for co-authoring widely used economics textbooks, often in collaboration with Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.
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A.
Greg Gilmore
Greg Gilmore is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the late-1980s Seattle band Mother Love Bone, a key precursor to the grunge movement.
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B.
Michele Hollister
Michele Hollister is a film editor known for her work on the 1999 drama film "Sunshine."
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C.
Leon Wilkeson
Leon Wilkeson was the longtime bassist for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, known for his melodic playing and distinctive stage presence.
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D.
Robb Wells
Robb Wells is a Canadian actor and screenwriter best known for his role as Ricky on the mockumentary television series "Trailer Park Boys."
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E.
Michael Wells
Michael Wells is a musician best known as a member of the American alternative country/rock band The Walkabouts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
economist ⓘ textbook author ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | economics education ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Paul Krugman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Stanford University
ⓘ
University of California, Berkeley ⓘ University of Chicago ⓘ |
| employer | Princeton University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
economics
ⓘ
macroeconomics ⓘ microeconomics ⓘ |
| genre | economics textbook ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | PhD in economics ⓘ |
| hasWrittenForm | introductory economics textbooks ⓘ |
| influences | economics students worldwide ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-authoring widely used economics textbooks
ⓘ
collaboration with Nobel laureate Paul Krugman ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Economics (textbook)
NERFINISHED
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Macroeconomics (textbook) NERFINISHED ⓘ Microeconomics (textbook) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
economist
ⓘ
textbook author ⓘ |
| publicationLanguage | English ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Paul Krugman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Princeton, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Robin Wells Description of subject: Robin Wells is an American economist and textbook author known for co-authoring widely used economics textbooks, often in collaboration with Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Paul Krugman