Richard Startz
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Richard Startz is an economist and academic known for co-authoring the widely used textbook "Macroeconomics" with Rudiger Dornbusch.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Startz canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11226385 — 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: Richard Startz Context triple: [Macroeconomics (with Rudiger Dornbusch and Richard Startz), author, Richard Startz]
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A.
Richard Brestoff
Richard Brestoff is an American actor best known for his supporting roles in film and television, including an appearance in the Steve Martin comedy "The Man with Two Brains."
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B.
Stephen Endlicher
Stephen Endlicher was a 19th-century Austrian botanist and linguist known for his influential work in plant taxonomy and classification.
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C.
Richard Jaeckel
Richard Jaeckel was an American character actor known for his tough, rugged roles in numerous war films, Westerns, and crime dramas from the 1940s through the 1990s.
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D.
Eric Schoffstall
Eric Schoffstall is a software developer best known for creating Gulp, a popular JavaScript-based task runner used in web development build workflows.
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E.
Mark Stutzman
Mark Stutzman is an American illustrator and graphic artist known for his detailed, realistic style on book covers, posters, and commercial artwork.
- 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: Richard Startz Target entity description: Richard Startz is an economist and academic known for co-authoring the widely used textbook "Macroeconomics" with Rudiger Dornbusch.
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A.
Richard Brestoff
Richard Brestoff is an American actor best known for his supporting roles in film and television, including an appearance in the Steve Martin comedy "The Man with Two Brains."
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B.
Stephen Endlicher
Stephen Endlicher was a 19th-century Austrian botanist and linguist known for his influential work in plant taxonomy and classification.
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C.
Richard Jaeckel
Richard Jaeckel was an American character actor known for his tough, rugged roles in numerous war films, Westerns, and crime dramas from the 1940s through the 1990s.
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D.
Eric Schoffstall
Eric Schoffstall is a software developer best known for creating Gulp, a popular JavaScript-based task runner used in web development build workflows.
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E.
Mark Stutzman
Mark Stutzman is an American illustrator and graphic artist known for his detailed, realistic style on book covers, posters, and commercial artwork.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
ⓘ
economics textbook ⓘ economist ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | economics ⓘ |
| author |
Richard Startz
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Rudiger Dornbusch ⓘ
linked to:
Rudi Dornbusch
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| coAuthorOf |
Macroeconomics
ⓘ
linked to:
“Macroeconomics”
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| fieldOfWork |
economics
ⓘ
macroeconomics ⓘ |
| genre | textbook ⓘ |
| hasCoAuthor |
Rudiger Dornbusch
ⓘ
linked to:
Rudi Dornbusch
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| knownFor | co-authoring the textbook "Macroeconomics" ⓘ |
| occupation |
economist
ⓘ
professor ⓘ |
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: Richard Startz Description of subject: Richard Startz is an economist and academic known for co-authoring the widely used textbook "Macroeconomics" with Rudiger Dornbusch.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.