The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
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"The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone" is the subtitle of Satya Nadella’s book *Hit Refresh*, which chronicles Microsoft’s cultural and strategic transformation under his leadership and explores the broader impact of technology on society.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5501532 — 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)
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Target entity: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone Context triple: [Hit Refresh, hasSubtitle, The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone]
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A.
Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft
"Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft" is Paul Allen’s autobiographical account detailing his role in founding Microsoft, his complex relationship with Bill Gates, and his subsequent ventures in technology, business, and philanthropy.
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B.
Why the future doesn’t need us
"Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us" is a widely discussed 2000 essay by technologist Bill Joy warning that advances in robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology could pose existential risks to humanity.
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C.
Redefining the Possible
Redefining the Possible is the official motto of California State University, Sacramento, expressing the institution’s commitment to expanding opportunities and challenging traditional limits in higher education.
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D.
Under the Radar: How Red Hat Changed the Software Business and Took Microsoft by Surprise
Under the Radar: How Red Hat Changed the Software Business and Took Microsoft by Surprise is a business and technology book that chronicles the rise of Red Hat and the open-source software model, highlighting how it disrupted traditional proprietary software giants like Microsoft.
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E.
Software is eating the world
"Software is eating the world" is a famous thesis by venture capitalist Marc Andreessen arguing that software-driven companies are transforming and dominating nearly every traditional industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone Target entity description: "The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone" is the subtitle of Satya Nadella’s book *Hit Refresh*, which chronicles Microsoft’s cultural and strategic transformation under his leadership and explores the broader impact of technology on society.
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A.
Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft
"Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft" is Paul Allen’s autobiographical account detailing his role in founding Microsoft, his complex relationship with Bill Gates, and his subsequent ventures in technology, business, and philanthropy.
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B.
Why the future doesn’t need us
"Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us" is a widely discussed 2000 essay by technologist Bill Joy warning that advances in robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology could pose existential risks to humanity.
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C.
Redefining the Possible
Redefining the Possible is the official motto of California State University, Sacramento, expressing the institution’s commitment to expanding opportunities and challenging traditional limits in higher education.
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D.
Under the Radar: How Red Hat Changed the Software Business and Took Microsoft by Surprise
Under the Radar: How Red Hat Changed the Software Business and Took Microsoft by Surprise is a business and technology book that chronicles the rise of Red Hat and the open-source software model, highlighting how it disrupted traditional proprietary software giants like Microsoft.
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E.
Software is eating the world
"Software is eating the world" is a famous thesis by venture capitalist Marc Andreessen arguing that software-driven companies are transforming and dominating nearly every traditional industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book subtitle
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literary work ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor |
Greg Shaw
NERFINISHED
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Jill Tracie Nichols NERFINISHED ⓘ Satya Nadella NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describes |
Microsoft’s cultural transformation
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Microsoft’s strategic transformation ⓘ |
| explores | the impact of technology on society ⓘ |
| focusesOn | Satya Nadella’s leadership at Microsoft ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOfMainWork | Harper Business NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedToOrganization | Microsoft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
corporate culture change
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innovation at Microsoft ⓘ leadership in the tech industry ⓘ technology and society ⓘ |
| subtitleOf | Hit Refresh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
imagining a better future for everyone
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rediscovering Microsoft’s soul ⓘ |
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 Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone Description of subject: "The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone" is the subtitle of Satya Nadella’s book *Hit Refresh*, which chronicles Microsoft’s cultural and strategic transformation under his leadership and explores the broader impact of technology on society.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Hit Refresh
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hasSubtitle
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The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
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