Lwów School of Mathematics
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The Lwów School of Mathematics was a renowned early 20th-century Polish mathematical community centered in Lwów, famous for its groundbreaking work in functional analysis, set theory, and probability, and for its collaborative problem-solving culture documented in the Scottish Book.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lwów School of Mathematics canonical | 14 |
| Lwów mathematical community | 1 |
| Lwów mathematicians | 1 |
| Lwów–Warsaw school of logic | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T718420 — 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: Lwów School of Mathematics Context triple: [Stanislaw Ulam, memberOf, Lwów School of Mathematics]
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Lwów Polytechnic
Lwów Polytechnic was a prominent technical university in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), renowned in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and interwar Poland for its engineering and scientific education.
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University of Lviv
The University of Lviv is one of the oldest and most prominent universities in Eastern Europe, located in Lviv, Ukraine, with a long tradition in the humanities and sciences.
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University of Warsaw
The University of Warsaw is Poland’s largest and one of its most prestigious public research universities, renowned for its strong programs in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
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Polish Academy of Learning
The Polish Academy of Learning is a historic scholarly society based in Kraków that serves as one of Poland’s foremost institutions for advancing research and promoting the humanities and sciences.
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Prussian Academy of Sciences
The Prussian Academy of Sciences was a prestigious Berlin-based learned society and research institution that became one of Europe’s leading centers for scientific and philosophical scholarship in the 18th to early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lwów School of Mathematics Target entity description: The Lwów School of Mathematics was a renowned early 20th-century Polish mathematical community centered in Lwów, famous for its groundbreaking work in functional analysis, set theory, and probability, and for its collaborative problem-solving culture documented in the Scottish Book.
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A.
Lwów Polytechnic
Lwów Polytechnic was a prominent technical university in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), renowned in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and interwar Poland for its engineering and scientific education.
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B.
University of Lviv
The University of Lviv is one of the oldest and most prominent universities in Eastern Europe, located in Lviv, Ukraine, with a long tradition in the humanities and sciences.
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C.
University of Warsaw
The University of Warsaw is Poland’s largest and one of its most prestigious public research universities, renowned for its strong programs in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
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D.
Polish Academy of Learning
The Polish Academy of Learning is a historic scholarly society based in Kraków that serves as one of Poland’s foremost institutions for advancing research and promoting the humanities and sciences.
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E.
Prussian Academy of Sciences
The Prussian Academy of Sciences was a prestigious Berlin-based learned society and research institution that became one of Europe’s leading centers for scientific and philosophical scholarship in the 18th to early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mathematical school
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research community ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| associatedPlace | Scottish Café ⓘ |
| centeredAt |
Jan Kazimierz University
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surface form:
Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów
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| country | Poland ⓘ |
| disruptedBy | World War II ⓘ |
| documentation | Scottish Book ⓘ |
| era | interwar period ⓘ |
| field |
functional analysis
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mathematics ⓘ probability theory ⓘ set theory ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Antoni Łomnicki
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Bronisław Knaster ⓘ Edward Marczewski ⓘ Herman Auerbach ⓘ Hugo Steinhaus ⓘ Jerzy Kaczmarz ⓘ Juliusz Schauder ⓘ Józef Schreier ⓘ Kazimierz Kuratowski ⓘ Mark Kac ⓘ Stanisław Mazur ⓘ Stanisław Saks ⓘ Stanislaw Ulam ⓘ
surface form:
Stanisław Ulam
Stefan Banach ⓘ Jerzy Kaczmarz ⓘ
surface form:
Stefan Kaczmarz
Władysław Orlicz ⓘ Władysław Ślebodziński ⓘ Zygmunt Janiszewski ⓘ |
| historicalCountry | Second Polish Republic ⓘ |
| influenced |
Banach space theory
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Polish School of Mathematics ⓘ measure theory ⓘ modern functional analysis ⓘ probability theory ⓘ |
| knownFor |
collaborative problem-solving culture
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groundbreaking work in functional analysis ⓘ groundbreaking work in probability theory ⓘ groundbreaking work in set theory ⓘ |
| language |
French
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German ⓘ Polish ⓘ |
| location |
Lwów
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surface form:
Lviv
Lwów ⓘ |
| notableWork | Scottish Book ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of Polish mathematics
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history of functional analysis ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Lwów School of Mathematics Description of subject: The Lwów School of Mathematics was a renowned early 20th-century Polish mathematical community centered in Lwów, famous for its groundbreaking work in functional analysis, set theory, and probability, and for its collaborative problem-solving culture documented in the Scottish Book.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lwów–Warsaw school of logic
this entity surface form:
Lwów mathematicians
this entity surface form:
Lwów mathematical community