Robert A. Burgelman
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Robert A. Burgelman is a scholar of strategic management and corporate innovation, known for his influential research on strategy-making processes and long-time professorship at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert A. Burgelman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T881212 — 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: Robert A. Burgelman Context triple: [Stanford Graduate School of Business, hasFaculty, Robert A. Burgelman]
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A.
Thomas J. Biersteker
Thomas J. Biersteker is an American political scientist and international relations scholar known for his work on global governance, sanctions, and international security.
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James A. Abrahamson
James A. Abrahamson is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and aerospace engineer best known for directing NASA’s Space Shuttle program and leading the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the 1980s.
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C.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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D.
George A. Bermann
George A. Bermann is a prominent American legal scholar and expert in international and comparative law, particularly known for his work in international arbitration.
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E.
Alexander J. Smits
Alexander J. Smits is a prominent mechanical engineer and fluid dynamicist known for his influential research on turbulent flows and high-speed aerodynamics.
- 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: Robert A. Burgelman Target entity description: Robert A. Burgelman is a scholar of strategic management and corporate innovation, known for his influential research on strategy-making processes and long-time professorship at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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A.
Thomas J. Biersteker
Thomas J. Biersteker is an American political scientist and international relations scholar known for his work on global governance, sanctions, and international security.
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B.
James A. Abrahamson
James A. Abrahamson is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and aerospace engineer best known for directing NASA’s Space Shuttle program and leading the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the 1980s.
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C.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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D.
George A. Bermann
George A. Bermann is a prominent American legal scholar and expert in international and comparative law, particularly known for his work in international arbitration.
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E.
Alexander J. Smits
Alexander J. Smits is a prominent mechanical engineer and fluid dynamicist known for his influential research on turbulent flows and high-speed aerodynamics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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professor ⓘ scholar ⓘ strategic management scholar ⓘ |
| affiliation | Stanford Graduate School of Business ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Belgium ⓘ |
| degree | PhD in management ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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Ghent University ⓘ |
| employer |
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Stanford University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
corporate innovation
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strategic management ⓘ strategy-making processes ⓘ technology strategy ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicTitle |
Professor of Management
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Professor of Strategy ⓘ |
| hasAdvised |
MBA students
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doctoral students ⓘ |
| hasPublishedIn |
management journals
ⓘ
strategic management journals ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
corporate entrepreneurship
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evolutionary theory of strategy ⓘ internal corporate venturing ⓘ strategic renewal ⓘ technology-intensive firms ⓘ |
| hasRole |
academic editor
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case writer ⓘ |
| hasTaughtAt | Stanford Graduate School of Business ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
academic articles on strategic management
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books on corporate innovation ⓘ books on strategy ⓘ |
| influenced |
research on corporate entrepreneurship
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research on strategy processes ⓘ |
| isKnownAs | Bob Burgelman ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| notableFor |
long-time professorship at Stanford Graduate School of Business
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research on corporate entrepreneurship ⓘ research on corporate innovation ⓘ research on strategy-making processes ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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researcher ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| teaches |
corporate innovation courses
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strategy courses ⓘ |
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: Robert A. Burgelman Description of subject: Robert A. Burgelman is a scholar of strategic management and corporate innovation, known for his influential research on strategy-making processes and long-time professorship at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.