The Concept of “Ba”: Building a Foundation for Knowledge Creation
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"The Concept of 'Ba': Building a Foundation for Knowledge Creation" is a seminal work by Ikujiro Nonaka that introduces the idea of “Ba” as a shared context or space—physical, virtual, or mental—where individuals interact to create, share, and transform organizational knowledge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Concept of “Ba”: Building a Foundation for Knowledge Creation canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10995059 — 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: The Concept of “Ba”: Building a Foundation for Knowledge Creation Context triple: [Ikujiro Nonaka, notableWork, The Concept of “Ba”: Building a Foundation for Knowledge Creation]
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Social Worlds of Knowledge
Social Worlds of Knowledge is a scholarly work by archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe that explores how human societies develop, organize, and transmit knowledge within their cultural and historical contexts.
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Knowledge in Pieces
Knowledge in Pieces is a seminal work in educational psychology that proposes a theory of learners’ intuitive knowledge as composed of many small, context-sensitive elements rather than coherent, unified misconceptions.
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C.
An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation
An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation is a major 1946 work in analytic philosophy by C. I. Lewis that develops a systematic theory of knowledge, meaning, and value grounded in conceptual pragmatism.
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D.
The Degrees of Knowledge
The Degrees of Knowledge is a major philosophical work by Jacques Maritain that systematically explores different kinds and levels of human knowledge within a Thomistic framework.
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E.
Dar Ta‘arud al-‘Aql wa al-Naql
Dar Ta‘arud al-‘Aql wa al-Naql is a major theological and philosophical work by Ibn Taymiyyah that systematically addresses the relationship and alleged conflicts between reason and revelation in Islamic thought.
- 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: The Concept of “Ba”: Building a Foundation for Knowledge Creation Target entity description: "The Concept of 'Ba': Building a Foundation for Knowledge Creation" is a seminal work by Ikujiro Nonaka that introduces the idea of “Ba” as a shared context or space—physical, virtual, or mental—where individuals interact to create, share, and transform organizational knowledge.
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A.
Social Worlds of Knowledge
Social Worlds of Knowledge is a scholarly work by archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe that explores how human societies develop, organize, and transmit knowledge within their cultural and historical contexts.
-
B.
Knowledge in Pieces
Knowledge in Pieces is a seminal work in educational psychology that proposes a theory of learners’ intuitive knowledge as composed of many small, context-sensitive elements rather than coherent, unified misconceptions.
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C.
An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation
An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation is a major 1946 work in analytic philosophy by C. I. Lewis that develops a systematic theory of knowledge, meaning, and value grounded in conceptual pragmatism.
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D.
The Degrees of Knowledge
The Degrees of Knowledge is a major philosophical work by Jacques Maritain that systematically explores different kinds and levels of human knowledge within a Thomistic framework.
-
E.
Dar Ta‘arud al-‘Aql wa al-Naql
Dar Ta‘arud al-‘Aql wa al-Naql is a major theological and philosophical work by Ibn Taymiyyah that systematically addresses the relationship and alleged conflicts between reason and revelation in Islamic thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic paper
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scholarly article ⓘ |
| addresses |
conditions for effective knowledge creation
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role of context in converting tacit and explicit knowledge ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
explain how environments enable knowledge creation
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provide a conceptual foundation for knowledge-creating processes ⓘ |
| author | Ikujiro Nonaka ⓘ |
| buildsOn | Nonaka’s earlier work on knowledge-creating companies ⓘ |
| clarifies | how interactions in Ba generate new knowledge ⓘ |
| conceptualizes |
Ba as a locus of meaning-making
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Ba as a platform for relationships ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
practice of knowledge management in firms
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theory of organizational knowledge creation ⓘ |
| describes |
Ba as a mental space
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Ba as a physical space ⓘ Ba as a virtual space ⓘ shared context for knowledge creation ⓘ |
| distinguishes | different types of Ba ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
context in knowledge processes
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dynamic nature of knowledge ⓘ interaction among individuals ⓘ |
| field |
knowledge management
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organizational learning ⓘ organizational theory ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
knowledge sharing
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knowledge transformation ⓘ organizational knowledge creation ⓘ |
| highlyCitedIn |
knowledge management literature
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organizational learning literature ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Japanese management practices
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phenomenology of place and space ⓘ |
| keyTerm |
Ba as shared context
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knowledge-creating company ⓘ organizational context ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainConcept | Ba ⓘ |
| originOfTerm | Japanese word “Ba” meaning place or field ⓘ |
| proposes |
Ba as a shared space in motion
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Ba as foundation for knowledge creation ⓘ |
| relatesTo |
SECI model of knowledge creation
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explicit knowledge ⓘ tacit knowledge ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
knowledge management practitioners
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organizational leaders ⓘ researchers in management ⓘ |
| theoreticalFramework | knowledge creation theory of the firm ⓘ |
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: The Concept of “Ba”: Building a Foundation for Knowledge Creation Description of subject: "The Concept of 'Ba': Building a Foundation for Knowledge Creation" is a seminal work by Ikujiro Nonaka that introduces the idea of “Ba” as a shared context or space—physical, virtual, or mental—where individuals interact to create, share, and transform organizational knowledge.
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