Jerzy Neyman
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Jerzy Neyman was a pioneering Polish statistician best known for developing the Neyman–Pearson lemma and foundational concepts of hypothesis testing and confidence intervals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jerzy Neyman canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7454050 — 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: Jerzy Neyman Context triple: [Karl Pearson, influenced, Jerzy Neyman]
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A.
Egon Pearson
Egon Pearson was a British statistician best known for co-developing the Neyman–Pearson lemma, a fundamental result in hypothesis testing.
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B.
William Kruskal
William Kruskal was an American statistician best known for co-developing the Kruskal–Wallis test, a nonparametric method for comparing multiple groups.
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C.
Carl-Gustav Esseen
Carl-Gustav Esseen was a Swedish mathematician best known for his contributions to probability theory, particularly his work on the Berry–Esseen theorem quantifying the rate of convergence in the central limit theorem.
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D.
Richard von Mises
Richard von Mises was an Austrian-American mathematician and physicist known for his foundational work in probability theory, aerodynamics, and the philosophy of science.
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E.
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.
- 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: Jerzy Neyman Target entity description: Jerzy Neyman was a pioneering Polish statistician best known for developing the Neyman–Pearson lemma and foundational concepts of hypothesis testing and confidence intervals.
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A.
Egon Pearson
Egon Pearson was a British statistician best known for co-developing the Neyman–Pearson lemma, a fundamental result in hypothesis testing.
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B.
William Kruskal
William Kruskal was an American statistician best known for co-developing the Kruskal–Wallis test, a nonparametric method for comparing multiple groups.
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C.
Carl-Gustav Esseen
Carl-Gustav Esseen was a Swedish mathematician best known for his contributions to probability theory, particularly his work on the Berry–Esseen theorem quantifying the rate of convergence in the central limit theorem.
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D.
Richard von Mises
Richard von Mises was an Austrian-American mathematician and physicist known for his foundational work in probability theory, aerodynamics, and the philosophy of science.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mathematician ⓘ statistician ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| academicAdvisor | Sergei Natanovich Bernstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Guy Medal in Gold
NERFINISHED
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Honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago ⓘ Honorary doctorate from the University of Warsaw ⓘ U.S. National Medal of Science NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Poland
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1894-04-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1981-08-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Kharkiv
NERFINISHED
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University of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Warsaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
University of California, Berkeley
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University of London NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Warsaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Neyman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
probability theory
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statistics ⓘ |
| givenName | Jerzy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of confidence interval methodology
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modern hypothesis testing theory ⓘ |
| knownFor |
confidence intervals
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frequentist statistics ⓘ hypothesis testing ⓘ sequential analysis ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned |
English
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French ⓘ Polish ⓘ Russian ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
surface form:
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Polish Academy of Learning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | frequentist school of statistics ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Polish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Neyman construction
NERFINISHED
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Neyman–Pearson lemma NERFINISHED ⓘ Neyman–Scott problem NERFINISHED ⓘ confidence interval theory ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Bendery
NERFINISHED
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Bessarabia Governorate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Oakland, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
founding director of the Statistical Laboratory at UC Berkeley
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professor of statistics ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Berkeley, California
NERFINISHED
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
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Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John W. Tukey