Brian Skyrms
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Brian Skyrms is an American philosopher known for his influential work in philosophy of science, decision theory, and evolutionary game theory, particularly on the emergence of conventions and social norms.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16170115 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian Skyrms Context triple: [Convention: A Philosophical Study, hasInfluencedAuthor, Brian Skyrms]
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Richard Jeffrey
Richard Jeffrey was an American philosopher and logician best known for his work in probability theory, decision theory, and inductive logic.
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Stephen Stich
Stephen Stich is an American philosopher best known for his influential work in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and epistemology, particularly his critiques of folk psychology and traditional notions of rationality.
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Jon Barwise
Jon Barwise was an American logician and philosopher known for his influential work in model theory, situation semantics, and the foundations of mathematics and logic.
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W. Gary Smith
W. Gary Smith is an American landscape architect and designer known for creating expressive, site-specific public gardens and memorial landscapes.
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Michael Resnik
Michael Resnik is an American philosopher of mathematics known for his influential work on structuralism and the philosophy of logic.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian Skyrms Target entity description: Brian Skyrms is an American philosopher known for his influential work in philosophy of science, decision theory, and evolutionary game theory, particularly on the emergence of conventions and social norms.
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A.
Richard Jeffrey
Richard Jeffrey was an American philosopher and logician best known for his work in probability theory, decision theory, and inductive logic.
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B.
Stephen Stich
Stephen Stich is an American philosopher best known for his influential work in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and epistemology, particularly his critiques of folk psychology and traditional notions of rationality.
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C.
Jon Barwise
Jon Barwise was an American logician and philosopher known for his influential work in model theory, situation semantics, and the foundations of mathematics and logic.
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D.
W. Gary Smith
W. Gary Smith is an American landscape architect and designer known for creating expressive, site-specific public gardens and memorial landscapes.
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E.
Michael Resnik
Michael Resnik is an American philosopher of mathematics known for his influential work on structuralism and the philosophy of logic.
- F. None of above. chosen
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