Reinhard Selten
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Reinhard Selten was a German economist and game theorist, Nobel laureate, and pioneer of bounded rationality and equilibrium refinement concepts in game theory.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reinhard Selten canonical | 6 |
| Elisabeth Selten | 1 |
| Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten | 1 |
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reinhard Selten Context triple: [Reinhard, notableBearer, Reinhard Selten]
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A.
Eric Maskin
Eric Maskin is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to mechanism design theory and game theory.
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B.
Ariel Rubinstein
Ariel Rubinstein is an Israeli economist renowned for his foundational contributions to game theory, particularly his formalization of bargaining through the Rubinstein bargaining model.
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C.
Kenneth Arrow
Kenneth Arrow was a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his foundational contributions to social choice theory and general equilibrium economics.
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D.
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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E.
Oliver Hart
Oliver Hart is a British-American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on contract theory and the theory of the firm.
- 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: Reinhard Selten Target entity description: Reinhard Selten was a German economist and game theorist, Nobel laureate, and pioneer of bounded rationality and equilibrium refinement concepts in game theory.
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A.
Eric Maskin
Eric Maskin is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to mechanism design theory and game theory.
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B.
Ariel Rubinstein
Ariel Rubinstein is an Israeli economist renowned for his foundational contributions to game theory, particularly his formalization of bargaining through the Rubinstein bargaining model.
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C.
Kenneth Arrow
Kenneth Arrow was a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his foundational contributions to social choice theory and general equilibrium economics.
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D.
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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E.
Oliver Hart
Oliver Hart is a British-American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on contract theory and the theory of the firm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate in Economics
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economist ⓘ game theorist ⓘ human ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in mathematics ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Gossen Prize
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Honorary doctorate from the Free University of Berlin ⓘ Honorary doctorate from the University of Bielefeld ⓘ Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ⓘ Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts ⓘ
linked to:
Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
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| citizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| coRecipientOf |
1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
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linked to:
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
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| countryOfBirth | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Poland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1930-10-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-08-23 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Otto Szász ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Goethe University Frankfurt ⓘ |
| employer |
Free University of Berlin
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University of Bielefeld ⓘ
linked to:
Bielefeld University
University of Bonn ⓘ |
| ethnicBackground | Jewish father ⓘ |
| familyName | Selten ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
economics
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experimental economics ⓘ game theory ⓘ |
| givenName | Reinhard ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bounded rationality
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contributions to non-cooperative game theory ⓘ equilibrium refinement ⓘ subgame perfect equilibrium ⓘ trembling hand perfect equilibrium ⓘ
linked to:
Nash equilibrium
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| languageSpoken |
English
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German ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Academia Europaea
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Econometric Society ⓘ North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts ⓘ |
| name |
Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten
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linked to:
Reinhard Selten
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| nobelPrizeCategory | Economic Sciences ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeMotivation | for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
bounded rationality in game theory
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subgame perfect equilibrium ⓘ trembling hand perfect equilibrium ⓘ
linked to:
Nash equilibrium
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| placeOfBirth | Breslau ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Poznań ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Professor of Economic Theory
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Professor of Economics ⓘ |
| religion | converted to Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sharedNobelPrizeWith |
John F. Nash Jr.
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linked to:
John Nash
John Harsanyi ⓘ |
| spouse |
Elisabeth Selten
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linked to:
Reinhard Selten
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Referenced by (8)
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linked to: Reinhard Selten
linked to: Reinhard Selten
subject linked to:
“Extensive Games and the Problem of Information”
subject linked to:
“Classics in Game Theory” (editor)