Jack Good
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Jack Good was a British mathematician and statistician known for his pioneering contributions to Bayesian statistics and his codebreaking work at Bletchley Park during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18522858 — 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: Jack Good Context triple: [Donald Michie, workedWith, Jack Good]
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A.
Fred Mosteller
Fred Mosteller was an influential American statistician and educator known for his pioneering work in mathematical statistics, statistics education, and applications of statistics to public policy and medicine.
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B.
David Blackwell
David Blackwell was a pioneering American statistician and mathematician renowned for his contributions to game theory, probability, and information theory, and as one of the first African Americans elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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C.
Dennis Michie
Dennis Michie was a U.S. Army officer and early football coach at West Point who is honored as the namesake of the United States Military Academy’s Michie Stadium.
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D.
Solomon Kullback
Solomon Kullback was an American statistician and cryptanalyst best known for co-developing the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a fundamental concept in information theory and statistics.
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E.
Joseph Graybill
Joseph Graybill was an early 20th-century American silent film actor who appeared in several D. W. Griffith productions.
- 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: Jack Good Target entity description: Jack Good was a British mathematician and statistician known for his pioneering contributions to Bayesian statistics and his codebreaking work at Bletchley Park during World War II.
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A.
Fred Mosteller
Fred Mosteller was an influential American statistician and educator known for his pioneering work in mathematical statistics, statistics education, and applications of statistics to public policy and medicine.
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B.
David Blackwell
David Blackwell was a pioneering American statistician and mathematician renowned for his contributions to game theory, probability, and information theory, and as one of the first African Americans elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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C.
Dennis Michie
Dennis Michie was a U.S. Army officer and early football coach at West Point who is honored as the namesake of the United States Military Academy’s Michie Stadium.
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D.
Solomon Kullback
Solomon Kullback was an American statistician and cryptanalyst best known for co-developing the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a fundamental concept in information theory and statistics.
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E.
Joseph Graybill
Joseph Graybill was an early 20th-century American silent film actor who appeared in several D. W. Griffith productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.