Howard Raiffa
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Howard Raiffa was an influential American statistician and decision theorist known for pioneering work in game theory, Bayesian analysis, and negotiation analysis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard Raiffa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5429778 — 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: Howard Raiffa Context triple: [Richard Karp, doctoralAdvisor, Howard Raiffa]
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A.
Herbert Simon
Herbert Simon was an American economist, political scientist, and cognitive psychologist renowned for his pioneering work on decision-making, bounded rationality, and artificial intelligence, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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B.
Philip M. Morse
Philip M. Morse was an American physicist and pioneer of operations research, known for his influential work in quantum mechanics, acoustics, and the development of scientific management techniques during and after World War II.
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C.
Herbert Scarf
Herbert Scarf was an influential American economist and mathematician known for his work on general equilibrium theory, fixed-point theorems, and integer programming.
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D.
Ronald Howard
Ronald Howard was a British actor and writer best known for his film and television work in the mid-20th century, including portraying Sherlock Holmes in a 1954 TV series.
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E.
Harold W. Kuhn
Harold W. Kuhn was an American mathematician and game theorist best known for his work on nonlinear programming and the Kuhn–Tucker conditions.
- 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: Howard Raiffa Target entity description: Howard Raiffa was an influential American statistician and decision theorist known for pioneering work in game theory, Bayesian analysis, and negotiation analysis.
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A.
Herbert Simon
Herbert Simon was an American economist, political scientist, and cognitive psychologist renowned for his pioneering work on decision-making, bounded rationality, and artificial intelligence, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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B.
Philip M. Morse
Philip M. Morse was an American physicist and pioneer of operations research, known for his influential work in quantum mechanics, acoustics, and the development of scientific management techniques during and after World War II.
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C.
Herbert Scarf
Herbert Scarf was an influential American economist and mathematician known for his work on general equilibrium theory, fixed-point theorems, and integer programming.
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D.
Ronald Howard
Ronald Howard was a British actor and writer best known for his film and television work in the mid-20th century, including portraying Sherlock Holmes in a 1954 TV series.
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E.
Harold W. Kuhn
Harold W. Kuhn was an American mathematician and game theorist best known for his work on nonlinear programming and the Kuhn–Tucker conditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
decision theorist
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person ⓘ statistician ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Lanchester Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
David Metcalfe
NERFINISHED
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John Richardson NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Duncan Luce NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Schlaifer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1924-01-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-07-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
City College of New York
NERFINISHED
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Columbia University ⓘ University of Michigan ⓘ |
| employer |
Harvard Business School
NERFINISHED
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Harvard Kennedy School NERFINISHED ⓘ Harvard University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Bayesian statistics
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decision theory ⓘ game theory ⓘ negotiation analysis ⓘ statistics ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| influenced |
field of negotiation analysis
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modern Bayesian decision theory ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early contributions to game theory
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pioneering work in Bayesian decision theory ⓘ pioneering work in decision analysis ⓘ pioneering work in negotiation analysis ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Applied Statistical Decision Theory
NERFINISHED
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Decision Analysis NERFINISHED ⓘ Games and Decisions NERFINISHED ⓘ The Art and Science of Negotiation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Arizona
NERFINISHED
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Tucson NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
professor at Harvard Business School
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professor at Harvard Kennedy School ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Howard Raiffa Description of subject: Howard Raiffa was an influential American statistician and decision theorist known for pioneering work in game theory, Bayesian analysis, and negotiation analysis.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.