Herbert Simon
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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.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Herbert A. Simon | 32 |
| Herbert Simon canonical | 2 |
| Herb Simon | 1 |
| Herbert Alexander Simon | 1 |
| Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T38887 — 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: Herbert Simon Context triple: [Herbert, hasNotableBearer, Herbert Simon]
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Oskar Morgenstern
Oskar Morgenstern was an Austrian-American economist best known as the co-founder of game theory through his seminal work "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior" with John von Neumann.
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John von Neumann
John von Neumann was a pioneering 20th-century mathematician and polymath whose foundational work in game theory, computer science, quantum mechanics, and economics profoundly shaped modern science and technology.
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Claude Shannon
Claude Shannon was an American mathematician and electrical engineer known as the "father of information theory" for founding the mathematical framework underlying digital communication and data compression.
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John Nash
John Nash was an American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations, which profoundly influenced economics and the mathematical sciences.
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Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and political activist widely regarded as the founder of modern linguistics and a prominent critic of U.S. foreign policy.
- 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: Herbert Simon Target entity description: 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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A.
Oskar Morgenstern
Oskar Morgenstern was an Austrian-American economist best known as the co-founder of game theory through his seminal work "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior" with John von Neumann.
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B.
John von Neumann
John von Neumann was a pioneering 20th-century mathematician and polymath whose foundational work in game theory, computer science, quantum mechanics, and economics profoundly shaped modern science and technology.
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C.
Claude Shannon
Claude Shannon was an American mathematician and electrical engineer known as the "father of information theory" for founding the mathematical framework underlying digital communication and data compression.
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D.
John Nash
John Nash was an American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations, which profoundly influenced economics and the mathematical sciences.
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E.
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and political activist widely regarded as the founder of modern linguistics and a prominent critic of U.S. foreign policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
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| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate in Economics
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cognitive psychologist ⓘ economist ⓘ human ⓘ political scientist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in political science ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award
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APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology
Franklin Institute Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science ⓘ
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Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
John von Neumann Theory Prize ⓘ National Medal of Science ⓘ Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ⓘ Turing Award ⓘ |
| birthName |
Herbert Simon
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Herbert Alexander Simon
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| coAuthor |
Allen Newell
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James G. March ⓘ John R. Hayes ⓘ William G. Chase ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1916-06-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2001-02-09 ⓘ |
| developedConcept |
bounded rationality in economics
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information-processing approach to cognition ⓘ satisficing decision rule ⓘ search in problem solving ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Chicago ⓘ |
| employer |
CMU
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Carnegie Institute of Technology
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Carnegie Mellon University
University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
artificial intelligence
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cognitive psychology ⓘ decision theory ⓘ economics ⓘ management science ⓘ operations research ⓘ political science ⓘ |
| influenced |
artificial intelligence
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behavioral economics ⓘ cognitive science ⓘ decision analysis ⓘ organizational theory ⓘ |
| knownFor |
administrative behavior
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artificial intelligence research ⓘ bounded rationality ⓘ cognitive architectures ⓘ decision-making theory ⓘ organizational decision-making ⓘ problem solving research ⓘ satisficing ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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American Philosophical Society ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
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National Academy of Sciences (United States)
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| name |
Herbert Simon
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surface form:
Herbert A. Simon
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| NobelPrizeField | Economic Sciences ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeMotivation | for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Administrative Behavior
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Human Problem Solving ⓘ Models of Bounded Rationality ⓘ Models of Man ⓘ Organizations ⓘ The Sciences of the Artificial ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Milwaukee
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surface form:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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| placeOfDeath |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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surface form:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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| positionHeld |
professor of computer science
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professor of economics ⓘ professor of industrial administration ⓘ professor of psychology ⓘ |
| spouse | Dorothea Pye Simon ⓘ |
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: Herbert Simon Description of subject: 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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