Katharina Pistor
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Katharina Pistor is a legal scholar known for her influential work on the legal foundations of capitalism, comparative corporate governance, and the role of law in shaping global financial systems.
All labels observed (1)
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| Katharina Pistor canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T352511 — 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: Katharina Pistor Context triple: [Columbia Law School, notableFaculty, Katharina Pistor]
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Anita Gütermann
Anita Gütermann was a German heiress from the Gütermann industrial family who became known as the first wife of renowned conductor Herbert von Karajan.
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B.
Johanna Osthoff
Johanna Osthoff was the first wife of the renowned German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, with whom he had several children before her early death.
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C.
Christine Grady
Christine Grady is an American nurse-bioethicist who heads the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and is known for her work on clinical research ethics.
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D.
Lucie Maria Rommel
Lucie Maria Rommel was the wife of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and the mother of their son Manfred, known for preserving and promoting her husband's legacy after World War II.
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E.
Armgard von Cramm
Armgard von Cramm was a German noblewoman best known as the mother of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and thus grandmother of former Dutch Queen Beatrix.
- 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: Katharina Pistor Target entity description: Katharina Pistor is a legal scholar known for her influential work on the legal foundations of capitalism, comparative corporate governance, and the role of law in shaping global financial systems.
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A.
Anita Gütermann
Anita Gütermann was a German heiress from the Gütermann industrial family who became known as the first wife of renowned conductor Herbert von Karajan.
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B.
Johanna Osthoff
Johanna Osthoff was the first wife of the renowned German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, with whom he had several children before her early death.
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C.
Christine Grady
Christine Grady is an American nurse-bioethicist who heads the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and is known for her work on clinical research ethics.
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D.
Lucie Maria Rommel
Lucie Maria Rommel was the wife of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and the mother of their son Manfred, known for preserving and promoting her husband's legacy after World War II.
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E.
Armgard von Cramm
Armgard von Cramm was a German noblewoman best known as the mother of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and thus grandmother of former Dutch Queen Beatrix.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
author
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book ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ professor ⓘ research center ⓘ |
| author | Katharina Pistor self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Allen & Overy Prize for Law and Economics (co-recipient)
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Max-Planck Research Award ⓘ
surface form:
Max Planck Research Award
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| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard Law School
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Freiburg University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Freiburg
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich ⓘ
surface form:
University of Munich
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| employer | Columbia Law School ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comparative corporate governance
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comparative law ⓘ corporate law ⓘ financial regulation ⓘ institutional economics ⓘ law and finance ⓘ legal foundations of capitalism ⓘ property rights ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAcademicRole | director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation ⓘ |
| hasPublicationType |
academic articles
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book chapters ⓘ monographs ⓘ |
| hasTaughtAt |
Columbia University
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Harvard University ⓘ University of Pennsylvania Law School ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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German ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (affiliated faculty)
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European Corporate Governance Institute ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
law as code of capital
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legal coding of assets ⓘ role of private law in creating inequality ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality ⓘ |
| occupation |
researcher
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university teacher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| partOf | Columbia Law School ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
comparative corporate governance
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global financial system ⓘ legal origins and economic development ⓘ role of law in capitalism ⓘ transition economies ⓘ |
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Subject: Katharina Pistor Description of subject: Katharina Pistor is a legal scholar known for her influential work on the legal foundations of capitalism, comparative corporate governance, and the role of law in shaping global financial systems.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality