David Allen Company (historically)
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David Allen Company is the productivity consulting firm founded by "Getting Things Done" author David Allen, known for its focus on personal and organizational workflow management.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Allen Company | 1 |
| David Allen Company (historically) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7088383 — 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: David Allen Company (historically) Context triple: [Holacracy, adoptedBy, David Allen Company (historically)]
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A.
Kalem Company
Kalem Company was an early American motion picture studio active in the silent film era, known for its pioneering location shooting and popular serials in the 1900s and 1910s.
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B.
The Tannenbaum Company
The Tannenbaum Company is a television production company best known for producing the hit sitcom "Two and a Half Men."
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C.
The Jinks/Cohen Company
The Jinks/Cohen Company is a television and film production company best known for producing the whimsical, critically acclaimed series "Pushing Daisies."
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D.
Drew Associates
Drew Associates was a pioneering American documentary film production company known for helping to establish the Direct Cinema movement in the 1960s through its innovative, observational style of filmmaking.
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E.
Goodrich Corporation
Goodrich Corporation was a major American aerospace and defense company known for manufacturing aircraft systems and components before its acquisition by United Technologies Corporation.
- 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: David Allen Company (historically) Target entity description: David Allen Company is the productivity consulting firm founded by "Getting Things Done" author David Allen, known for its focus on personal and organizational workflow management.
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A.
Kalem Company
Kalem Company was an early American motion picture studio active in the silent film era, known for its pioneering location shooting and popular serials in the 1900s and 1910s.
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B.
The Tannenbaum Company
The Tannenbaum Company is a television production company best known for producing the hit sitcom "Two and a Half Men."
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C.
The Jinks/Cohen Company
The Jinks/Cohen Company is a television and film production company best known for producing the whimsical, critically acclaimed series "Pushing Daisies."
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D.
Drew Associates
Drew Associates was a pioneering American documentary film production company known for helping to establish the Direct Cinema movement in the 1960s through its innovative, observational style of filmmaking.
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E.
Goodrich Corporation
Goodrich Corporation was a major American aerospace and defense company known for manufacturing aircraft systems and components before its acquisition by United Technologies Corporation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
privately held company
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productivity consulting firm ⓘ |
| associatedWith | GTD (Getting Things Done) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Getting Things Done book NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessModel |
fee-based consulting
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licensed training ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
corporate HR departments
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learning and development teams ⓘ |
| employs |
consultants
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productivity coaches ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
knowledge work productivity
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organizational productivity ⓘ personal productivity ⓘ time management ⓘ workflow management ⓘ |
| focusesOn | implementation of GTD ⓘ |
| founder | David Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicScope | international ⓘ |
| goal |
improve organizational productivity
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improve personal productivity ⓘ reduce stress through better workflow management ⓘ |
| hasBrand | Getting Things Done NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson | David Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubjectArea |
project management at personal scale
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task management ⓘ work-life organization ⓘ |
| industry |
management consulting
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productivity consulting ⓘ |
| knownFor |
popularizing GTD in organizations
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structured productivity training programs ⓘ |
| methodology | capture-clarify-organize-reflect-engage ⓘ |
| notableWork | Getting Things Done methodology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| offers |
coaching services
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consulting services ⓘ online courses ⓘ organizational workflow consulting ⓘ productivity training ⓘ seminars ⓘ workshops ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
email and information management
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knowledge worker productivity ⓘ organizational workflow systems ⓘ personal workflow systems ⓘ project and action management ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
corporate clients
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individual knowledge workers ⓘ teams and organizations ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
coaching-based behavior change
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workshop-based skill development ⓘ |
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: David Allen Company (historically) Description of subject: David Allen Company is the productivity consulting firm founded by "Getting Things Done" author David Allen, known for its focus on personal and organizational workflow management.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
holacracy (in past organizational structure experiments)
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adoptedBy
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David Allen Company (historically)
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subject surface form:
Holacracy
this entity surface form:
David Allen Company