Administrative Behavior
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Administrative Behavior is Herbert A. Simon’s influential book that applies behavioral and decision-making theories to explain how organizations and their administrators actually function.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Administrative Behavior canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T431696 — 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: Administrative Behavior Context triple: [Herbert A. Simon, notableWork, Administrative Behavior]
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Administrative Management Section
The Administrative Management Section is an internal unit of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division responsible for providing administrative, budgetary, and operational support to the division’s civil rights enforcement work.
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National Academy of Public Administration
The National Academy of Public Administration is an independent, nonpartisan organization in the United States that provides expert advice and analysis to improve government management and public policy.
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C.
School of Public Administration
The School of Public Administration is an academic unit of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law specializing in education and research on public management, public policy, and related administrative sciences.
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Administrative Procedure Act
The Administrative Procedure Act is a foundational U.S. federal law that governs how federal agencies propose and establish regulations, conduct rulemaking, and provide for public participation and judicial review.
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E.
Council of Administration
The Council of Administration is a governing body of the Universal Postal Union responsible for overseeing its operations, policy implementation, and strategic direction between congresses.
- 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: Administrative Behavior Target entity description: Administrative Behavior is Herbert A. Simon’s influential book that applies behavioral and decision-making theories to explain how organizations and their administrators actually function.
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A.
Administrative Management Section
The Administrative Management Section is an internal unit of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division responsible for providing administrative, budgetary, and operational support to the division’s civil rights enforcement work.
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B.
National Academy of Public Administration
The National Academy of Public Administration is an independent, nonpartisan organization in the United States that provides expert advice and analysis to improve government management and public policy.
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C.
School of Public Administration
The School of Public Administration is an academic unit of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law specializing in education and research on public management, public policy, and related administrative sciences.
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D.
Administrative Procedure Act
The Administrative Procedure Act is a foundational U.S. federal law that governs how federal agencies propose and establish regulations, conduct rulemaking, and provide for public participation and judicial review.
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Office of Management and Policy
The Office of Management and Policy is an administrative division within the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General that oversees internal management, budgeting, and policy coordination to support the agency’s oversight mission.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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management book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ organizational theory book ⓘ |
| addresses |
authority and hierarchy
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communication in organizations ⓘ efficiency in administrative processes ⓘ loyalty and organizational identification ⓘ structure of organizations ⓘ |
| author |
Herbert Simon
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surface form:
Herbert A. Simon
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| contrastsWith | economic man model ⓘ |
| coreIdea |
importance of information in decisions
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limits of human rationality in organizations ⓘ organizations as systems of decision-making ⓘ programmed and non-programmed decisions ⓘ role of authority in decision processes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| field |
management
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organizational theory ⓘ political science ⓘ public administration ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
behavioral aspects of administration
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bounded rationality ⓘ decision processes in organizations ⓘ organizational decision-making ⓘ satisficing ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
fourth edition
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second edition ⓘ third edition ⓘ |
| influenced |
decision theory
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management science ⓘ modern organizational theory ⓘ public administration scholarship ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| proposesConcept |
administrative man
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bounded rationality ⓘ satisficing ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1947 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Macmillan Publishers
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surface form:
Macmillan
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| recognizedAs |
classic in organizational theory
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foundational work in decision theory ⓘ influential book in public administration ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
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surface form:
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences of Herbert A. Simon
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| subject |
administrative theory
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decision-making ⓘ management science ⓘ organizational behavior ⓘ public administration ⓘ |
| usedIn |
courses on organizational behavior
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graduate education in management ⓘ graduate education in public administration ⓘ |
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: Administrative Behavior Description of subject: Administrative Behavior is Herbert A. Simon’s influential book that applies behavioral and decision-making theories to explain how organizations and their administrators actually function.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Herbert A. Simon