Abhijit Banerjee
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Abhijit Banerjee is an Indian-American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.
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| Abhijit Banerjee canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Abhijit Banerjee Context triple: [Banerjee, hasNotableBearer, Abhijit Banerjee]
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Esther Duflo
Esther Duflo is a French-American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for her pioneering use of randomized controlled trials to study and combat global poverty.
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B.
Kaushik Basu
Kaushik Basu is an Indian economist and academic known for his work in development economics and for serving as Chief Economist of the World Bank and Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India.
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C.
Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his work on information asymmetry, inequality, and critiques of unregulated markets.
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D.
Partha Dasgupta
Partha Dasgupta is a prominent Indian-British economist renowned for his pioneering work in environmental and ecological economics, particularly on the economics of biodiversity and sustainable development.
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E.
Raghuram Rajan
Raghuram Rajan is an Indian economist and academic who served as the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and is renowned globally for his work on financial systems and economic policy.
- 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: Abhijit Banerjee Target entity description: Abhijit Banerjee is an Indian-American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.
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A.
Esther Duflo
Esther Duflo is a French-American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for her pioneering use of randomized controlled trials to study and combat global poverty.
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B.
Kaushik Basu
Kaushik Basu is an Indian economist and academic known for his work in development economics and for serving as Chief Economist of the World Bank and Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India.
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C.
Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his work on information asymmetry, inequality, and critiques of unregulated markets.
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D.
Partha Dasgupta
Partha Dasgupta is a prominent Indian-British economist renowned for his pioneering work in environmental and ecological economics, particularly on the economics of biodiversity and sustainable development.
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E.
Raghuram Rajan
Raghuram Rajan is an Indian economist and academic who served as the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and is renowned globally for his work on financial systems and economic policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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academic ⓘ author ⓘ development economist ⓘ economist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in Economics ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Infosys Prize in Social Sciences (Economics)
NERFINISHED
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John Bates Clark Medal (finalist, not recipient) NERFINISHED ⓘ Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
India
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United States of America ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Esther Duflo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1961-02-21 ⓘ |
| degree |
BSc in Economics
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MA in Economics ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Eric Maskin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Jawaharlal Nehru University NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Calcutta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Bengali ⓘ |
| familyName | Banerjee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
development economics
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economics ⓘ poverty alleviation ⓘ |
| givenName | Abhijit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
experimental approach to alleviating global poverty
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randomized controlled trials in development economics ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Bengali
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English ⓘ |
| name | Abhijit Banerjee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Indian-American ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeCategory | Economic Sciences ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeMotivation | for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeSharedWith |
Esther Duflo
NERFINISHED
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Michael Kremer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Good Economics for Hard Times
NERFINISHED
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Poor Economics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Mumbai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| spouse | Esther Duflo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| workplace | Department of Economics, MIT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Referenced by (4)
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subject surface form:
Esther Duflo