Ikujiro
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Ikujiro is a Japanese organizational theorist best known for his work on knowledge management and the SECI model of knowledge creation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ikujiro canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10995041 — 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: Ikujiro Context triple: [Ikujiro Nonaka, givenName, Ikujiro]
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A.
Seikichi
Seikichi is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
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B.
Kinnosuke
Kinnosuke is the given name of the renowned Japanese novelist Natsume Sōseki, a central figure in modern Japanese literature.
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C.
Ichirō
Ichirō is a common Japanese masculine given name that can be written with various kanji and is often associated with first-born sons.
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D.
Kenjirō
Kenjirō is a Japanese masculine given name that can be written with various kanji combinations and is borne by multiple notable individuals in fields such as sports, arts, and entertainment.
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E.
Tadahiko
Tadahiko is a Japanese masculine given name used by various notable individuals in fields such as sports, arts, and academia.
- 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: Ikujiro Target entity description: Ikujiro is a Japanese organizational theorist best known for his work on knowledge management and the SECI model of knowledge creation.
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A.
Seikichi
Seikichi is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
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B.
Kinnosuke
Kinnosuke is the given name of the renowned Japanese novelist Natsume Sōseki, a central figure in modern Japanese literature.
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C.
Ichirō
Ichirō is a common Japanese masculine given name that can be written with various kanji and is often associated with first-born sons.
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D.
Kenjirō
Kenjirō is a Japanese masculine given name that can be written with various kanji combinations and is borne by multiple notable individuals in fields such as sports, arts, and entertainment.
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E.
Tadahiko
Tadahiko is a Japanese masculine given name used by various notable individuals in fields such as sports, arts, and academia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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organizational theorist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
business management
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innovation management ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Best Business Book of the Year (for The Knowledge-Creating Company) ⓘ |
| citizenship | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Hirotaka Takeuchi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| developedConcept |
ba (shared context for knowledge creation)
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knowledge-creating company ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Berkeley
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Waseda University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Hitotsubashi University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| familyName | Nonaka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
knowledge management
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management studies ⓘ organizational theory ⓘ |
| givenName | Ikujiro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
business administration
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management science ⓘ |
| influenced |
knowledge management research
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organizational learning theory ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Michael Polanyi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
SECI model of knowledge creation
NERFINISHED
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knowledge-creating company concept ⓘ theory of organizational knowledge creation ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Japanese ⓘ |
| name | Ikujiro Nonaka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation
NERFINISHED
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The Knowledge-Creating Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publishedIn |
Harvard Business Review
NERFINISHED
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Organization Science NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| theorized |
SECI spiral of knowledge creation
NERFINISHED
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tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge interaction ⓘ |
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: Ikujiro Description of subject: Ikujiro is a Japanese organizational theorist best known for his work on knowledge management and the SECI model of knowledge creation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.