Michael Jordan

E636113

human statistician

Michael Jordan is a prominent computer scientist and statistician known for his influential work in machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, and statistical inference.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Michael A. Jordan	2
Michael Jordan canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7027384 — 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: Michael Jordan
Context triple: [Generalized Advantage Estimation, proposedBy, Michael Jordan]

A. Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan is a legendary American basketball player widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes in the history of the sport.
B. Michael Bakari Jordan
Michael Bakari Jordan is an American actor and producer best known for his roles in films such as "Fruitvale Station," "Creed," and "Black Panther."
C. Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant was an American professional basketball player, primarily with the Los Angeles Lakers, widely regarded as one of the greatest players in NBA history.
D. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a legendary American basketball center, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer for decades and a key figure in multiple championship teams, especially with the Los Angeles Lakers.
E. George Gervin
George Gervin is a Hall of Fame American basketball player, nicknamed "The Iceman," renowned as one of the greatest scorers in ABA and NBA history.
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: Michael Jordan
Target entity description: Michael Jordan is a prominent computer scientist and statistician known for his influential work in machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, and statistical inference.

A. Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan is a legendary American basketball player widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes in the history of the sport.
B. Michael Bakari Jordan
Michael Bakari Jordan is an American actor and producer best known for his roles in films such as "Fruitvale Station," "Creed," and "Black Panther."
C. Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant was an American professional basketball player, primarily with the Los Angeles Lakers, widely regarded as one of the greatest players in NBA history.
D. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a legendary American basketball center, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer for decades and a key figure in multiple championship teams, especially with the Los Angeles Lakers.
E. George Gervin
George Gervin is a Hall of Fame American basketball player, nicknamed "The Iceman," renowned as one of the greatest scorers in ABA and NBA history.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ statistician ⓘ
awardReceived	ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award NERFINISHED ⓘ ASA Medallion Lecture NERFINISHED ⓘ David E. Rumelhart Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ IEEE John von Neumann Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ SIAM John von Neumann Lecture NERFINISHED ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor	David Rumelhart NERFINISHED ⓘ
educatedAt	Arizona State University NERFINISHED ⓘ Louisiana State University NERFINISHED ⓘ University of California, San Diego NERFINISHED ⓘ
employer	University of California, Berkeley ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Bayesian statistics ⓘ artificial intelligence ⓘ computational biology ⓘ information theory ⓘ machine learning ⓘ optimization ⓘ probabilistic graphical models ⓘ statistical inference ⓘ statistics ⓘ
hasGiven	ICML invited talks NERFINISHED ⓘ JSM plenary talks NERFINISHED ⓘ NeurIPS invited talks ⓘ
hasPublishedIn	Annals of Statistics NERFINISHED ⓘ International Conference on Machine Learning proceedings NERFINISHED ⓘ Journal of Machine Learning Research NERFINISHED ⓘ Machine Learning NERFINISHED ⓘ Neural Information Processing Systems proceedings NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor	Bayesian nonparametrics NERFINISHED ⓘ latent variable models ⓘ machine learning theory ⓘ mixture models ⓘ optimization in machine learning ⓘ probabilistic graphical models ⓘ statistical machine learning ⓘ variational inference ⓘ
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ National Academy of Engineering ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ Royal Society ⓘ
notableStudent	Andrew Ng NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Wainwright NERFINISHED ⓘ Yee Whye Teh NERFINISHED ⓘ Zoubin Ghahramani NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	professor ⓘ
position	Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences ⓘ Professor of Statistics ⓘ

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Generalized Advantage Estimation → proposedBy → Michael Jordan ⓘ

Michael Bakari Jordan → hasRelative → Michael Jordan ⓘ

this entity surface form: Michael A. Jordan

Michael A. Jordan (father of Michael B. Jordan) → name → Michael Jordan ⓘ

subject surface form: Michael A. Jordan