Kaldor
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Kaldor is a surname most prominently associated with Nicholas Kaldor, a 20th-century economist known for his influential contributions to post-Keynesian economic theory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kaldor canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1886215 — 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: Kaldor Context triple: [Nicholas Kaldor, familyName, Kaldor]
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Arend
Arend was one of the ships in the early 18th-century Dutch expedition led by explorer Jacob Roggeveen, known for his discovery of Easter Island.
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Keston
Keston is a historic village in the London Borough of Bromley, known for its rural character, commons, and proximity to the source of the River Ravensbourne.
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Goytre
Goytre is a village and community located within the county borough of Neath Port Talbot in South Wales.
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Kerrera
Kerrera is a small Scottish island in the Inner Hebrides, located near Oban on the country’s west coast.
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E.
Kinnaird
Kinnaird is a historic Scottish estate and locality traditionally associated with the Carnegie family and the title of Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird.
- 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: Kaldor Target entity description: Kaldor is a surname most prominently associated with Nicholas Kaldor, a 20th-century economist known for his influential contributions to post-Keynesian economic theory.
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A.
Arend
Arend was one of the ships in the early 18th-century Dutch expedition led by explorer Jacob Roggeveen, known for his discovery of Easter Island.
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B.
Keston
Keston is a historic village in the London Borough of Bromley, known for its rural character, commons, and proximity to the source of the River Ravensbourne.
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C.
Goytre
Goytre is a village and community located within the county borough of Neath Port Talbot in South Wales.
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D.
Kerrera
Kerrera is a small Scottish island in the Inner Hebrides, located near Oban on the country’s west coast.
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E.
Kinnaird
Kinnaird is a historic Scottish estate and locality traditionally associated with the Carnegie family and the title of Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
ⓘ
economist ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| advised |
UK government
ⓘ
developing country governments on tax and industrial policy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Hungary
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1908-05-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1986-09-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | London School of Economics ⓘ |
| employer |
London School of Economics
ⓘ
Cambridge University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
|
| ethnicGroup | Hungarian Jews ⓘ |
| familyName | Kaldor self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
economics
ⓘ
macroeconomics ⓘ post-Keynesian economics ⓘ |
| givenName | Nicholas ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Nicholas Kaldor ⓘ |
| influenced | post-Keynesian economists ⓘ |
| influencedBy | John Maynard Keynes ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to post-Keynesian macroeconomic theory
ⓘ
critique of monetarism ⓘ theory of economic growth and distribution ⓘ work on taxation and public finance ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Hungarian language ⓘ |
| memberOf |
British Academy
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House of Lords ⓘ |
| movement |
Post-Keynesian economics
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surface form:
post-Keynesian economics
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| nobleTitle | life peer ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hicks–Kaldor compensation criterion
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surface form:
Kaldor–Hicks efficiency
Kaldor–Verdoorn law ⓘ Kaldor’s stylized facts of economic growth ⓘ
surface form:
Kaldor’s growth laws
Kaldor’s stylized facts of economic growth ⓘ models of economic growth with technical progress ⓘ theory of distribution in a Keynesian framework ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Budapest ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
CAMBRIDGE
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surface form:
Cambridge
|
| politicalAffiliation | Labour Party (UK) ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Clarissa Goldschmidt ⓘ |
| title | Baron Kaldor ⓘ |
| workLocation |
CAMBRIDGE
ⓘ
surface form:
Cambridge
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How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Kaldor Description of subject: Kaldor is a surname most prominently associated with Nicholas Kaldor, a 20th-century economist known for his influential contributions to post-Keynesian economic theory.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nicholas Kaldor