"Don’t Leave Before You Leave"
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"Don’t Leave Before You Leave" is a chapter from Sheryl Sandberg’s book *Lean In* that urges women not to preemptively scale back their careers in anticipation of future life changes like motherhood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Don’t Leave Before You Leave" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13289139 — 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: "Don’t Leave Before You Leave" Context triple: [Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, chapterIncludes, "Don’t Leave Before You Leave"]
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A.
Wouldn’t Leave
"Wouldn’t Leave" is a melodic, emotionally driven song by Kanye West (Ye) that reflects on loyalty, controversy, and the strain his public actions place on his personal relationships.
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B.
Never on the Day You Leave
"Never on the Day You Leave" is a melancholic breakup ballad by John Mayer that reflects on delayed emotional fallout and regret.
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C.
Only When You Leave
"Only When You Leave" is a 1984 synth-pop single by British band Spandau Ballet, known as one of their major hits of the mid-1980s.
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D.
Last Seen Leaving
"Last Seen Leaving" is a suspenseful crime novel by American author Kelly Braffet that follows a young woman entangled in mystery and danger after her troubled mother disappears.
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E.
Please Don’t Go
"Please Don’t Go" is a 2010 electro-pop song by American singer Mike Posner that became one of his breakout hits following "Cooler Than Me."
- 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: "Don’t Leave Before You Leave" Target entity description: "Don’t Leave Before You Leave" is a chapter from Sheryl Sandberg’s book *Lean In* that urges women not to preemptively scale back their careers in anticipation of future life changes like motherhood.
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A.
Wouldn’t Leave
"Wouldn’t Leave" is a melodic, emotionally driven song by Kanye West (Ye) that reflects on loyalty, controversy, and the strain his public actions place on his personal relationships.
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B.
Never on the Day You Leave
"Never on the Day You Leave" is a melancholic breakup ballad by John Mayer that reflects on delayed emotional fallout and regret.
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C.
Only When You Leave
"Only When You Leave" is a 1984 synth-pop single by British band Spandau Ballet, known as one of their major hits of the mid-1980s.
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D.
Last Seen Leaving
"Last Seen Leaving" is a suspenseful crime novel by American author Kelly Braffet that follows a young woman entangled in mystery and danger after her troubled mother disappears.
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E.
Please Don’t Go
"Please Don’t Go" is a 2010 electro-pop song by American singer Mike Posner that became one of his breakout hits following "Cooler Than Me."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book chapter
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non-fiction book chapter ⓘ |
| advises |
avoid turning down stretch assignments solely due to hypothetical future constraints
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stay fully engaged at work until a concrete reason to change arises ⓘ |
| argument |
organizations lose talent when women disengage too early
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preemptively stepping back can reduce future professional opportunities ⓘ women should keep leaning in until they actually need to make a change ⓘ women should not scale back their careers in anticipation of possible future family responsibilities ⓘ |
| author | Sheryl Sandberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| critiques |
social expectations that women will prioritize family over career
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workplace structures that assume women will opt out ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
career planning
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leadership opportunities for women ⓘ promotion decisions ⓘ |
| genre |
business literature
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feminist literature ⓘ self-help ⓘ |
| includedIn | leadership and career development curricula ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Sheryl Sandberg’s personal experiences in the technology industry
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discussions on the gender gap in leadership positions ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedInWork | Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
anticipatory career decisions
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career ambition ⓘ gender equality in the workplace ⓘ motherhood and career ⓘ retention of women in the workforce ⓘ self-limiting behavior ⓘ women’s career advancement ⓘ work–life balance ⓘ |
| partOf | Lean In NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfContainingWork | 2013 ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
aspiring women leaders
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professional women ⓘ women considering motherhood ⓘ |
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: "Don’t Leave Before You Leave" Description of subject: "Don’t Leave Before You Leave" is a chapter from Sheryl Sandberg’s book *Lean In* that urges women not to preemptively scale back their careers in anticipation of future life changes like motherhood.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.