Robert I. Sutton
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Robert I. Sutton is an American organizational psychologist and Stanford professor best known for his research and popular books on workplace behavior, leadership, and evidence-based management.
All labels observed (1)
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| Robert I. Sutton canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4726040 — 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 I. Sutton Context triple: [Jeffrey Pfeffer, coAuthorWith, Robert I. Sutton]
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Peter A. Dowling
Peter A. Dowling is a screenwriter best known for his work on high-concept Hollywood thrillers, including the Jodie Foster–led film "Flightplan."
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B.
James G. March
James G. March was an influential organizational theorist and political scientist known for his work on decision-making, organizational behavior, and the "garbage can" model of organizational choice.
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C.
Richard M. Cyert
Richard M. Cyert was an American economist and organizational theorist best known for his influential work on behavioral theories of the firm and his long tenure as president of Carnegie Mellon University.
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D.
Emanuel R. Piore
Emanuel R. Piore was a prominent physicist and research executive known for his influential leadership in industrial research and development, particularly at IBM.
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E.
Robert G. Heft
Robert G. Heft was an American designer best known for creating the 50-star version of the United States flag while still a high school student.
- 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 I. Sutton Target entity description: Robert I. Sutton is an American organizational psychologist and Stanford professor best known for his research and popular books on workplace behavior, leadership, and evidence-based management.
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A.
Peter A. Dowling
Peter A. Dowling is a screenwriter best known for his work on high-concept Hollywood thrillers, including the Jodie Foster–led film "Flightplan."
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B.
James G. March
James G. March was an influential organizational theorist and political scientist known for his work on decision-making, organizational behavior, and the "garbage can" model of organizational choice.
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C.
Richard M. Cyert
Richard M. Cyert was an American economist and organizational theorist best known for his influential work on behavioral theories of the firm and his long tenure as president of Carnegie Mellon University.
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D.
Emanuel R. Piore
Emanuel R. Piore was a prominent physicist and research executive known for his influential leadership in industrial research and development, particularly at IBM.
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E.
Robert G. Heft
Robert G. Heft was an American designer best known for creating the 50-star version of the United States flag while still a high school student.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ organizational psychologist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Stanford School of Engineering ⓘ
linked to:
School of Engineering at Stanford University
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| coAuthor |
Huggy Rao
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Jeffrey Pfeffer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer | Stanford University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
evidence-based management
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leadership ⓘ management ⓘ organizational behavior ⓘ workplace psychology ⓘ |
| genre |
business literature
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management literature ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
industrial and organizational psychology
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management science ⓘ organizational studies ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy of evidence-based management
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popularizing the concept of the "no asshole rule" in workplaces ⓘ research on bosses and leadership behavior ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Good Boss, Bad Boss
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Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense ⓘ Scaling Up Excellence ⓘ The Asshole Survival Guide ⓘ The No Asshole Rule ⓘ Weird Ideas That Work ⓘ |
| occupation |
organizational psychologist
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university teacher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
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Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
evidence-based management practices
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innovation in organizations ⓘ leadership effectiveness ⓘ organizational change ⓘ workplace civility ⓘ |
| workLocation | Stanford, California ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
leadership and power dynamics
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organizational culture ⓘ scaling organizations ⓘ workplace behavior ⓘ |
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 I. Sutton Description of subject: Robert I. Sutton is an American organizational psychologist and Stanford professor best known for his research and popular books on workplace behavior, leadership, and evidence-based management.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.