Maurice Obstfeld
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Maurice Obstfeld is a prominent American economist known for his influential work in international macroeconomics and for serving as Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11784338 — 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: Maurice Obstfeld Context triple: [Macroeconomic Policy in a World Economy, author, Maurice Obstfeld]
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Stanley Fischer
Stanley Fischer is an influential Israeli-American economist and policymaker known for his work in macroeconomics and New Keynesian theory, as well as for serving in top roles at the IMF, World Bank, Bank of Israel, and the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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Michael D. Bordo
Michael D. Bordo is an economic historian known for his influential research on monetary history and policy, often focusing on financial crises and the evolution of central banking.
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John Dornbusch
John Dornbusch is an Australian academic leader who serves as the chancellor of the University of Southern Queensland.
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Rudi Dornbusch
Rudi Dornbusch was a prominent German-American economist known for his influential work on open-economy macroeconomics and exchange rate dynamics.
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C. Fred Bergsten
C. Fred Bergsten is an American economist known for his influential work on international trade and finance and for leading the Peterson Institute for International Economics for several decades.
- 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: Maurice Obstfeld Target entity description: Maurice Obstfeld is a prominent American economist known for his influential work in international macroeconomics and for serving as Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund.
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A.
Stanley Fischer
Stanley Fischer is an influential Israeli-American economist and policymaker known for his work in macroeconomics and New Keynesian theory, as well as for serving in top roles at the IMF, World Bank, Bank of Israel, and the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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B.
Michael D. Bordo
Michael D. Bordo is an economic historian known for his influential research on monetary history and policy, often focusing on financial crises and the evolution of central banking.
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John Dornbusch
John Dornbusch is an Australian academic leader who serves as the chancellor of the University of Southern Queensland.
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D.
Rudi Dornbusch
Rudi Dornbusch was a prominent German-American economist known for his influential work on open-economy macroeconomics and exchange rate dynamics.
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C. Fred Bergsten
C. Fred Bergsten is an American economist known for his influential work on international trade and finance and for leading the Peterson Institute for International Economics for several decades.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Maurice Obstfeld Description of subject: Maurice Obstfeld is a prominent American economist known for his influential work in international macroeconomics and for serving as Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.