Donald L. Kirkpatrick
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Donald L. Kirkpatrick was an American professor and training expert best known for developing the influential four-level model for evaluating training programs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Donald Kirkpatrick | 1 |
| Donald L. Kirkpatrick canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8751981 — 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: Donald L. Kirkpatrick Context triple: [Kirkpatrick, hasNotableBearer, Donald L. Kirkpatrick]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Robert H. Waterman
Robert H. Waterman was a 19th-century American sea captain and entrepreneur known for his role in the early development and founding of Fairfield, California.
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D.
Jay L. McClelland
Jay L. McClelland is a cognitive psychologist and neuroscientist best known for his pioneering work in connectionist models of cognition and co-developing the influential Parallel Distributed Processing framework.
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E.
David G. Booth
David G. Booth is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors and a major benefactor of the University of Chicago.
- 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: Donald L. Kirkpatrick Target entity description: Donald L. Kirkpatrick was an American professor and training expert best known for developing the influential four-level model for evaluating training programs.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Robert H. Waterman
Robert H. Waterman was a 19th-century American sea captain and entrepreneur known for his role in the early development and founding of Fairfield, California.
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D.
Jay L. McClelland
Jay L. McClelland is a cognitive psychologist and neuroscientist best known for his pioneering work in connectionist models of cognition and co-developing the influential Parallel Distributed Processing framework.
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E.
David G. Booth
David G. Booth is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors and a major benefactor of the University of Chicago.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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professor ⓘ training expert ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| developed |
Kirkpatrick Model
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linked to:
Kirkpatrick model of training evaluation
four levels of training evaluation ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| employer | University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
human resource development
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training and development ⓘ training evaluation ⓘ |
| genre |
business and management literature
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professional training literature ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
behavior level of training evaluation
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learning level of training evaluation ⓘ reaction level of training evaluation ⓘ results level of training evaluation ⓘ |
| hasImpactOn |
HR performance measurement
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evaluation standards in training and development ⓘ learning and development metrics ⓘ |
| hasLegacy |
continued use of his model in instructional design textbooks
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widespread adoption of four-level evaluation framework ⓘ |
| hasNameInLiterature |
Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels
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linked to:
Kirkpatrick model of training evaluation
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| influenced |
corporate training industry
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instructional design field ⓘ training evaluation practices worldwide ⓘ |
| knownFor | systematic approach to evaluating training effectiveness ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| modelUsedIn |
corporate training evaluation
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nonprofit training evaluation ⓘ public sector training evaluation ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Kirkpatrick Model
ⓘ
linked to:
Kirkpatrick model of training evaluation
four-level model of training evaluation ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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management consultant ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| theoryNamedAfter |
Kirkpatrick Model of Training Evaluation
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linked to:
Kirkpatrick model of training evaluation
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| wrote |
Evaluating Training Programs
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linked to:
Kirkpatrick model of training evaluation
Evaluating Training Programs: The Four Levels ⓘ
linked to:
Kirkpatrick model of training evaluation
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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: Donald L. Kirkpatrick Description of subject: Donald L. Kirkpatrick was an American professor and training expert best known for developing the influential four-level model for evaluating training programs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Donald L. Kirkpatrick