Robert Fogel
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Robert Fogel was a Nobel Prize–winning economic historian known for applying quantitative, Chicago School–style economic analysis to historical questions such as the economics of slavery and railroads.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert William Fogel | 2 |
| Robert Fogel canonical | 1 |
| Robert W. Fogel | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T827211 — 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: Robert Fogel Context triple: [Chicago School economics, associatedWithPerson, Robert Fogel]
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A.
David Romer
David Romer is an influential American macroeconomist known for his work on New Keynesian economics, advanced macroeconomic theory, and widely used graduate-level textbooks.
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B.
Alfred W. Crosby
Alfred W. Crosby was an American environmental historian whose influential work on ecological and cultural consequences of European expansion helped establish the field of environmental history.
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C.
Rose Friedman
Rose Friedman was an American economist and co-author known for her influential collaborations with her husband Milton Friedman on free-market economic ideas.
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D.
Anne Polanyi
Anne Polanyi is known as the wife of Nobel Prize–winning chemist John Polanyi.
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E.
John B. Taylor
John B. Taylor is an American economist best known for formulating the influential Taylor rule for monetary policy and for his contributions to modern macroeconomic and New Keynesian theory.
- 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: Robert Fogel Target entity description: Robert Fogel was a Nobel Prize–winning economic historian known for applying quantitative, Chicago School–style economic analysis to historical questions such as the economics of slavery and railroads.
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A.
David Romer
David Romer is an influential American macroeconomist known for his work on New Keynesian economics, advanced macroeconomic theory, and widely used graduate-level textbooks.
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B.
Alfred W. Crosby
Alfred W. Crosby was an American environmental historian whose influential work on ecological and cultural consequences of European expansion helped establish the field of environmental history.
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C.
Rose Friedman
Rose Friedman was an American economist and co-author known for her influential collaborations with her husband Milton Friedman on free-market economic ideas.
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D.
Anne Polanyi
Anne Polanyi is known as the wife of Nobel Prize–winning chemist John Polanyi.
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E.
John B. Taylor
John B. Taylor is an American economist best known for formulating the influential Taylor rule for monetary policy and for his contributions to modern macroeconomic and New Keynesian theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Robert Fogel Description of subject: Robert Fogel was a Nobel Prize–winning economic historian known for applying quantitative, Chicago School–style economic analysis to historical questions such as the economics of slavery and railroads.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Robert William Fogel
this entity surface form:
Robert W. Fogel
this entity surface form:
Robert William Fogel