Creative Destruction Lab
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Creative Destruction Lab is a seed-stage program and startup accelerator that helps science- and technology-based companies scale through mentorship, expert guidance, and access to capital.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Creative Destruction Lab canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4707897 — 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: Creative Destruction Lab Context triple: [Discovery District, hasInstitution, Creative Destruction Lab]
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A.
INSEAD Social Innovation Centre
The INSEAD Social Innovation Centre is a research and impact hub within INSEAD that focuses on advancing social entrepreneurship, sustainability, and inclusive business practices through research, education, and partnerships.
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B.
Koffler Accelerator
The Koffler Accelerator is a major particle accelerator facility at the Weizmann Institute of Science used for advanced nuclear and particle physics research.
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C.
Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation
The Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation is a prominent French research center at Mines Paris that became internationally known as a key hub for science and technology studies and actor-network theory.
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D.
Institute for Business Innovation
The Institute for Business Innovation is a research and education center at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business that focuses on advancing knowledge and practice in innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology management.
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E.
Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology is UC Berkeley’s premier hub for innovation education, offering interdisciplinary programs that blend engineering, business, and design to foster technology startups and entrepreneurial leaders.
- 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: Creative Destruction Lab Target entity description: Creative Destruction Lab is a seed-stage program and startup accelerator that helps science- and technology-based companies scale through mentorship, expert guidance, and access to capital.
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A.
INSEAD Social Innovation Centre
The INSEAD Social Innovation Centre is a research and impact hub within INSEAD that focuses on advancing social entrepreneurship, sustainability, and inclusive business practices through research, education, and partnerships.
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B.
Koffler Accelerator
The Koffler Accelerator is a major particle accelerator facility at the Weizmann Institute of Science used for advanced nuclear and particle physics research.
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C.
Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation
The Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation is a prominent French research center at Mines Paris that became internationally known as a key hub for science and technology studies and actor-network theory.
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D.
Institute for Business Innovation
The Institute for Business Innovation is a research and education center at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business that focuses on advancing knowledge and practice in innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology management.
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E.
Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology is UC Berkeley’s premier hub for innovation education, offering interdisciplinary programs that blend engineering, business, and design to foster technology startups and entrepreneurial leaders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
non-profit organization
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seed-stage program ⓘ startup accelerator ⓘ university-affiliated accelerator ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CDL ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith |
Rotman School of Management
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University of Toronto ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| ecosystemRole | innovation ecosystem catalyst ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
science-based startups
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seed-stage companies ⓘ technology-based startups ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Ajay Agrawal ⓘ |
| goal |
commercialize scientific discoveries
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create large-scale, globally competitive companies ⓘ help companies scale ⓘ |
| hasParticipant |
business mentors
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entrepreneurs ⓘ experienced founders ⓘ investors ⓘ scientists ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
AI stream
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agriculture stream ⓘ blockchain stream ⓘ climate stream ⓘ energy stream ⓘ fintech stream ⓘ health stream ⓘ quantum computing stream ⓘ space stream ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Canada
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Ontario ⓘ Toronto ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| methodology |
cohort-based program
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objective-based mentoring ⓘ |
| name | Creative Destruction Lab ⓘ |
| offers |
access to capital
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expert guidance ⓘ mentorship ⓘ structured objectives-based program ⓘ |
| programType | equity-based accelerator program ⓘ |
| stageFocus |
pre-seed
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seed ⓘ |
| supports |
deep-tech ventures
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early-stage founders ⓘ science and technology commercialization ⓘ |
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: Creative Destruction Lab Description of subject: Creative Destruction Lab is a seed-stage program and startup accelerator that helps science- and technology-based companies scale through mentorship, expert guidance, and access to capital.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.