Steven Durlauf (doctoral advisor)
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Steven Durlauf is an American economist known for his work in econometrics, social interactions, and inequality, and for mentoring prominent scholars such as Roland Fryer.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9402850 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Steven Durlauf (doctoral advisor) Context triple: [Roland Fryer, hasAcademicAdvisor, Steven Durlauf (doctoral advisor)]
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Dale T. Mortensen
Dale T. Mortensen was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on search and matching theory in labor economics.
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William O. Wooldridge
William O. Wooldridge was a United States Army noncommissioned officer who became the first Sergeant Major of the Army, serving as the senior enlisted advisor to the Army’s leadership.
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C.
Steven S. Alm
Steven S. Alm is an American attorney and former federal prosecutor who has served in prominent legal roles in Hawaii, including as Honolulu's elected prosecuting attorney.
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D.
Robert J. Hodrick
Robert J. Hodrick is an American economist best known for his work in macroeconomics and finance, including the development of the Hodrick–Prescott filter used to analyze business cycles.
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E.
Martin J. Osborne
Martin J. Osborne is an economist and game theorist known for his influential work in microeconomic theory and for co-authoring the widely used textbook "A Course in Game Theory" with Ariel Rubinstein.
- 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: Steven Durlauf (doctoral advisor) Target entity description: Steven Durlauf is an American economist known for his work in econometrics, social interactions, and inequality, and for mentoring prominent scholars such as Roland Fryer.
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A.
Dale T. Mortensen
Dale T. Mortensen was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on search and matching theory in labor economics.
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B.
William O. Wooldridge
William O. Wooldridge was a United States Army noncommissioned officer who became the first Sergeant Major of the Army, serving as the senior enlisted advisor to the Army’s leadership.
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C.
Steven S. Alm
Steven S. Alm is an American attorney and former federal prosecutor who has served in prominent legal roles in Hawaii, including as Honolulu's elected prosecuting attorney.
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D.
Robert J. Hodrick
Robert J. Hodrick is an American economist best known for his work in macroeconomics and finance, including the development of the Hodrick–Prescott filter used to analyze business cycles.
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E.
Martin J. Osborne
Martin J. Osborne is an economist and game theorist known for his influential work in microeconomic theory and for co-authoring the widely used textbook "A Course in Game Theory" with Ariel Rubinstein.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
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| instanceOf |
economist
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human ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countryOfResidence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| doctoralStudent |
Roland Fryer
NERFINISHED
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prominent economics scholars ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Pennsylvania
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Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | University of Wisconsin–Madison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
econometrics
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economic growth ⓘ economics ⓘ inequality ⓘ macroeconomics ⓘ social interactions in economics ⓘ social networks in economics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole | doctoral advisor ⓘ |
| knownFor |
research in econometrics
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research on inequality ⓘ research on neighborhood effects ⓘ research on social interactions in economics ⓘ work on economic growth empirics ⓘ work on macroeconometric modeling ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Roland Fryer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | professor of economics ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
econometric methodology
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empirical analysis of inequality ⓘ macroeconomic dynamics ⓘ social interactions and peer effects ⓘ |
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: Steven Durlauf (doctoral advisor) Description of subject: Steven Durlauf is an American economist known for his work in econometrics, social interactions, and inequality, and for mentoring prominent scholars such as Roland Fryer.
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