Richard Keynes
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Richard Keynes was a British physiologist known for his influential research in nerve and muscle physiology and for being part of the prominent Keynes family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Keynes canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3717889 — 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 Keynes Context triple: [Alan Hodgkin, notableStudent, Richard Keynes]
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A.
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes was a British economist whose revolutionary ideas about government intervention in the economy profoundly shaped modern macroeconomics and policies adopted during and after the Great Depression.
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B.
James Meade
James Meade was an American military officer after whom Meade County in Kentucky was named, recognized for his service in the early 19th century.
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C.
John R. Hicks
John R. Hicks was a British economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his influential contributions to microeconomic theory, welfare economics, and the development of general equilibrium analysis.
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D.
Nicholas Kaldor
Nicholas Kaldor was a prominent 20th-century Hungarian-British economist known for his influential contributions to growth theory, distribution, and economic policy, particularly within the post-Keynesian tradition.
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E.
A. W. Phillips
A. W. Phillips was a New Zealand-born economist best known for formulating the relationship between unemployment and wage/price inflation that became known as the Phillips curve.
- 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 Keynes Target entity description: Richard Keynes was a British physiologist known for his influential research in nerve and muscle physiology and for being part of the prominent Keynes family.
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A.
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes was a British economist whose revolutionary ideas about government intervention in the economy profoundly shaped modern macroeconomics and policies adopted during and after the Great Depression.
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B.
James Meade
James Meade was an American military officer after whom Meade County in Kentucky was named, recognized for his service in the early 19th century.
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C.
John R. Hicks
John R. Hicks was a British economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his influential contributions to microeconomic theory, welfare economics, and the development of general equilibrium analysis.
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D.
Nicholas Kaldor
Nicholas Kaldor was a prominent 20th-century Hungarian-British economist known for his influential contributions to growth theory, distribution, and economic policy, particularly within the post-Keynesian tradition.
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E.
A. W. Phillips
A. W. Phillips was a New Zealand-born economist best known for formulating the relationship between unemployment and wage/price inflation that became known as the Phillips curve.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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human ⓘ physiologist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
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surface form:
Fellow of the Royal Society
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| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Eton College
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Trinity College, Cambridge ⓘ |
| employer |
Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge
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Cambridge University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
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| familyName | Keynes ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
muscle physiology
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nerve physiology ⓘ neurophysiology ⓘ physiology ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Quentin Keynes
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surface form:
Keynes family
Royal Society ⓘ |
| notableWork |
research on excitation–contraction coupling in muscle
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research on ion movements in nerve fibres ⓘ research on the mechanism of the nerve impulse ⓘ studies of electrical properties of nerve membranes ⓘ studies of sodium and potassium fluxes in nerves ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Head of the Department of Physiology at the University of Cambridge
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Professor of Physiology at the University of Cambridge ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
CAMBRIDGE
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surface form:
Cambridge
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Subject: Richard Keynes Description of subject: Richard Keynes was a British physiologist known for his influential research in nerve and muscle physiology and for being part of the prominent Keynes family.
Referenced by (2)
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