Hugo Steinhaus
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Hugo Steinhaus was a prominent Polish mathematician and co-founder of the Lwów School of Mathematics, known for significant contributions to functional analysis, probability theory, and game theory.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hugo Steinhaus canonical | 18 |
| Steinhaus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T787802 — 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: Hugo Steinhaus Context triple: [Mark Kac, doctoralAdvisor, Hugo Steinhaus]
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A.
Stanisław Ostrowski
Stanisław Ostrowski was a Polish politician and physician who served as President of the Polish government-in-exile during the Cold War era.
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B.
Stanisław Radkiewicz
Stanisław Radkiewicz was a Polish communist politician and security official who served as one of the key figures in establishing and overseeing the postwar communist security apparatus in Poland.
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C.
Leopold Infeld
Leopold Infeld was a Polish theoretical physicist known for his work in general relativity and for co-authoring the influential book "The Evolution of Physics" with Albert Einstein.
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D.
Henryk Sucharski
Henryk Sucharski was a Polish military officer best known for commanding the heroic defense of the Westerplatte peninsula during the opening days of World War II.
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E.
Marian Smoluchowski
Marian Smoluchowski was a Polish physicist and pioneer of statistical physics whose work on molecular motion and fluctuations helped establish the kinetic theory of matter and advanced the understanding of Brownian motion.
- 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: Hugo Steinhaus Target entity description: Hugo Steinhaus was a prominent Polish mathematician and co-founder of the Lwów School of Mathematics, known for significant contributions to functional analysis, probability theory, and game theory.
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A.
Stanisław Ostrowski
Stanisław Ostrowski was a Polish politician and physician who served as President of the Polish government-in-exile during the Cold War era.
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B.
Stanisław Radkiewicz
Stanisław Radkiewicz was a Polish communist politician and security official who served as one of the key figures in establishing and overseeing the postwar communist security apparatus in Poland.
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C.
Leopold Infeld
Leopold Infeld was a Polish theoretical physicist known for his work in general relativity and for co-authoring the influential book "The Evolution of Physics" with Albert Einstein.
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D.
Henryk Sucharski
Henryk Sucharski was a Polish military officer best known for commanding the heroic defense of the Westerplatte peninsula during the opening days of World War II.
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E.
Marian Smoluchowski
Marian Smoluchowski was a Polish physicist and pioneer of statistical physics whose work on molecular motion and fluctuations helped establish the kinetic theory of matter and advanced the understanding of Brownian motion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Polish mathematician
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human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ |
| academicDegree | doctorate in mathematics ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1887-01-14 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Austro-Hungarian Empire
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surface form:
Austria-Hungary
Jasło ⓘ Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Stefan Banach ⓘ |
| coFounded | Lwów School of Mathematics ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Poland ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1972-02-25 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | David Hilbert ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Göttingen
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University of Lviv ⓘ |
| employer |
Jan Kazimierz University
ⓘ
surface form:
Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów
University of Wrocław ⓘ Wrocław University of Science and Technology ⓘ
surface form:
Wrocław University of Technology
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| familyName |
Hugo Steinhaus
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Steinhaus
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| fieldOfWork |
Fourier analysis
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functional analysis ⓘ game theory ⓘ mathematics ⓘ measure theory ⓘ probability theory ⓘ topology ⓘ trigonometric series ⓘ |
| givenName | Hugo ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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German ⓘ Polish ⓘ |
| memberOf | Lwów School of Mathematics ⓘ |
| name | Hugo Steinhaus self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding the Lwów School of Mathematics
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contributions to functional analysis, probability theory, and game theory ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Karol Borsuk
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Mark Kac ⓘ Stanislaw Ulam ⓘ
surface form:
Stanisław Ulam
Stefan Banach ⓘ |
| notableWork |
"Mathematical Snapshots"
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Banach–Steinhaus theorem ⓘ Kakutani fixed-point theorem ⓘ
surface form:
Kakutani fixed-point theorem (contributions)
Steinhaus chessboard theorem ⓘ Steinhaus theorem ⓘ mathematical problems column in "Wiadomości Matematyczne" ⓘ |
| occupation |
professor
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university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Wrocław ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Lwów
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Wrocław ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Hugo Steinhaus Description of subject: Hugo Steinhaus was a prominent Polish mathematician and co-founder of the Lwów School of Mathematics, known for significant contributions to functional analysis, probability theory, and game theory.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Steinhaus
subject surface form:
Mathematical Snapshots
subject surface form:
Mathematical Snapshots