The Use of Knowledge in Society
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The Use of Knowledge in Society is a seminal 1945 essay by economist Friedrich Hayek that argues how dispersed, tacit knowledge makes decentralized market prices superior to central planning in coordinating economic activity.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Use of Knowledge in Society canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T693594 — 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: The Use of Knowledge in Society Context triple: [Friedrich Hayek, notableWork, The Use of Knowledge in Society]
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A.
As We May Think
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B.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society
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C.
The Crooked Timber of Humanity
The Crooked Timber of Humanity is a collection of essays by philosopher Isaiah Berlin exploring pluralism, the limits of human perfectibility, and the complexities of political and moral life.
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D.
The Sciences of the Artificial
The Sciences of the Artificial is a seminal 1969 book by Herbert A. Simon that explores the nature, design, and study of artificial systems such as organizations, computers, and complex artifacts.
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E.
The Future of Ideas
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- 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: The Use of Knowledge in Society Target entity description: The Use of Knowledge in Society is a seminal 1945 essay by economist Friedrich Hayek that argues how dispersed, tacit knowledge makes decentralized market prices superior to central planning in coordinating economic activity.
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A.
As We May Think
As We May Think is a seminal 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush that envisioned hypertext-like information systems and profoundly influenced the development of modern computing and the internet.
-
B.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society
An Essay on the History of Civil Society is a 1767 work by Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson that analyzes the development of human societies, social institutions, and civic virtue within the broader context of Enlightenment thought.
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C.
The Crooked Timber of Humanity
The Crooked Timber of Humanity is a collection of essays by philosopher Isaiah Berlin exploring pluralism, the limits of human perfectibility, and the complexities of political and moral life.
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D.
The Sciences of the Artificial
The Sciences of the Artificial is a seminal 1969 book by Herbert A. Simon that explores the nature, design, and study of artificial systems such as organizations, computers, and complex artifacts.
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E.
The Future of Ideas
The Future of Ideas is a book by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig that examines how excessive intellectual property regulation threatens innovation, creativity, and the openness of the digital commons.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic article
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economic essay ⓘ essay ⓘ |
| arguesAgainst |
central economic planning
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socialist calculation ⓘ |
| author |
Friedrich Hayek
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surface form:
Friedrich A. Hayek
Friedrich Hayek ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
decentralized decision-making
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dispersed knowledge ⓘ economic coordination ⓘ knowledge problem ⓘ local knowledge ⓘ market process ⓘ price system ⓘ spontaneous order ⓘ tacit knowledge ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| field |
economics
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epistemology of economics ⓘ political economy ⓘ |
| firstPublished | September 1945 ⓘ |
| influenced |
information economics
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knowledge management in economics ⓘ market process theory ⓘ new institutional economics ⓘ public choice theory ⓘ theory of the firm ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Austrian School of economics
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Ludwig von Mises ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableAs |
classic essay in Austrian economics
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seminal work in information economics ⓘ |
| publicationType | journal article ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| publishedIn | American Economic Review ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Austrian School of economics
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surface form:
Austrian economics
The Road to Serfdom ⓘ socialist calculation debate ⓘ |
| supports |
decentralized markets
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price mechanism ⓘ |
| thesis |
central planners cannot aggregate and use all relevant local knowledge
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economic knowledge is widely dispersed among individuals and cannot be fully centralized ⓘ market prices communicate information about relative scarcities ⓘ practical knowledge is often tacit and context-specific ⓘ the price system coordinates individual plans without central direction ⓘ |
| topic |
coordination problem
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economic planning ⓘ information and incentives ⓘ price signals ⓘ |
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: The Use of Knowledge in Society Description of subject: The Use of Knowledge in Society is a seminal 1945 essay by economist Friedrich Hayek that argues how dispersed, tacit knowledge makes decentralized market prices superior to central planning in coordinating economic activity.
Referenced by (3)
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