The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
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"The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company" is a business memoir by David Packard that recounts the founding and growth of Hewlett-Packard while outlining the management philosophy and values that shaped the company.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company canonical | 2 |
| The HP Way | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T77465 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company Context triple: [HP Way corporate culture, documentedIn, The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company]
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A.
The Business of Happiness
The Business of Happiness is a book by entrepreneur and sports team owner Ted Leonsis that blends memoir and business advice to argue that true success comes from pursuing happiness, meaning, and service to others alongside financial achievement.
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B.
Computer Lib / Dream Machines
Computer Lib / Dream Machines is a pioneering 1974 book by Ted Nelson that passionately advocates for personal computing, hypertext, and user empowerment in the digital age.
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C.
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! is a popular autobiographical collection of humorous and insightful anecdotes by physicist Richard Feynman, showcasing his curious, irreverent approach to science and life.
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D.
The City That Works
"The City That Works" is a civic motto highlighting Portland, Oregon’s reputation for effective local governance, urban planning, and livability.
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E.
Bolt Beranek and Newman
Bolt Beranek and Newman was a pioneering American research and engineering firm best known for its foundational role in developing the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern internet.
- 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 HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company Target entity description: "The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company" is a business memoir by David Packard that recounts the founding and growth of Hewlett-Packard while outlining the management philosophy and values that shaped the company.
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A.
The Business of Happiness
The Business of Happiness is a book by entrepreneur and sports team owner Ted Leonsis that blends memoir and business advice to argue that true success comes from pursuing happiness, meaning, and service to others alongside financial achievement.
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B.
Computer Lib / Dream Machines
Computer Lib / Dream Machines is a pioneering 1974 book by Ted Nelson that passionately advocates for personal computing, hypertext, and user empowerment in the digital age.
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C.
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! is a popular autobiographical collection of humorous and insightful anecdotes by physicist Richard Feynman, showcasing his curious, irreverent approach to science and life.
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D.
The City That Works
"The City That Works" is a civic motto highlighting Portland, Oregon’s reputation for effective local governance, urban planning, and livability.
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E.
Bolt Beranek and Newman
Bolt Beranek and Newman was a pioneering American research and engineering firm best known for its foundational role in developing the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern internet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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business memoir ⓘ |
| aboutPerson |
Bill Hewlett
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David Packard ⓘ |
| alternativeTitle |
The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
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surface form:
The HP Way
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| author | David Packard ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depictsEvent | early days of Silicon Valley electronics industry ⓘ |
| describesConcept |
decentralized management
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innovation culture ⓘ long-term thinking ⓘ management by walking around ⓘ respect for employees ⓘ HP Way corporate culture ⓘ
surface form:
the HP Way
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| describesLocation | Palo Alto, California ⓘ |
| describesOrganization | Hewlett-Packard ⓘ |
| focusesOnPeriod |
founding of Hewlett-Packard
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growth of Hewlett-Packard ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiography
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business ⓘ management ⓘ |
| hasCompanyCaseStudy | Hewlett-Packard ⓘ |
| hasForm |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ |
| hasPerspectiveOf | co-founder of Hewlett-Packard ⓘ |
| illustratesValue |
commitment to quality
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customer focus ⓘ integrity in business ⓘ trust in employees ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
business leaders
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entrepreneurs ⓘ managers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Hewlett-Packard
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corporate culture ⓘ entrepreneurship ⓘ management philosophy ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeVoice | first person ⓘ |
| nonfiction | true ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Harper Perennial
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surface form:
HarperBusiness
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| setting | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| title | The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company self-link ⓘ |
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 HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company Description of subject: "The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company" is a business memoir by David Packard that recounts the founding and growth of Hewlett-Packard while outlining the management philosophy and values that shaped the company.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
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The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
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The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
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The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
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this entity surface form:
The HP Way