New Age
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New Age is a modern spiritual movement that blends elements of Western esotericism, Eastern religions, and holistic practices, emphasizing personal transformation, mysticism, and alternative healing.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Age movement | 9 |
| New Age spirituality | 8 |
| New Age canonical | 2 |
| New Age music | 1 |
| New Age religion | 1 |
| New Thought movement | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T888342 — 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: New Age Context triple: [Western esotericism, hasField, New Age]
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A.
Soul
Soul is a 2020 Pixar animated film that explores themes of purpose, passion, and the afterlife through the story of a jazz musician who experiences a life-changing journey beyond Earth.
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B.
Theosophy
Theosophy is a spiritual and philosophical movement that blends Eastern and Western esoteric traditions, emphasizing mystical insight, reincarnation, and the pursuit of universal spiritual truths.
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C.
Gnosticism
Gnosticism is a diverse set of early religious movements that emphasized secret spiritual knowledge (gnosis) as the path to salvation and often presented a dualistic view of the material and spiritual worlds.
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D.
Neo-Solomonic
Neo-Solomonic is an alternative name for Solomon Islands Pijin, an English-based creole language widely used as a lingua franca in the Solomon Islands.
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E.
Kabbalah
Kabbalah is a Jewish mystical tradition that explores the hidden, spiritual dimensions of God, the universe, and the Torah through symbolic and esoteric teachings.
- 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: New Age Target entity description: New Age is a modern spiritual movement that blends elements of Western esotericism, Eastern religions, and holistic practices, emphasizing personal transformation, mysticism, and alternative healing.
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A.
Soul
Soul is a 2020 Pixar animated film that explores themes of purpose, passion, and the afterlife through the story of a jazz musician who experiences a life-changing journey beyond Earth.
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B.
Theosophy
Theosophy is a spiritual and philosophical movement that blends Eastern and Western esoteric traditions, emphasizing mystical insight, reincarnation, and the pursuit of universal spiritual truths.
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C.
Gnosticism
Gnosticism is a diverse set of early religious movements that emphasized secret spiritual knowledge (gnosis) as the path to salvation and often presented a dualistic view of the material and spiritual worlds.
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D.
Neo-Solomonic
Neo-Solomonic is an alternative name for Solomon Islands Pijin, an English-based creole language widely used as a lingua franca in the Solomon Islands.
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E.
Kabbalah
Kabbalah is a Jewish mystical tradition that explores the hidden, spiritual dimensions of God, the universe, and the Torah through symbolic and esoteric teachings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural movement
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esoteric tradition ⓘ religious movement ⓘ spiritual movement ⓘ |
| associatedWithPractice |
New Age
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
New Age music
Reiki ⓘ affirmations ⓘ astrology ⓘ aura reading ⓘ channeling ⓘ crystal healing ⓘ energy healing ⓘ guided imagery ⓘ holistic medicine ⓘ meditation ⓘ sound healing ⓘ tarot reading ⓘ visualization ⓘ yoga ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
anti-institutional attitude
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commercialization of spirituality ⓘ eclecticism ⓘ individualism ⓘ rejection of organized religion ⓘ |
| criticizedFor |
cultural appropriation
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excessive individualism ⓘ lack of doctrinal coherence ⓘ pseudoscientific claims ⓘ |
| emergedInDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| emergedInPeriod | late 20th century ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
alternative healing
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holistic health ⓘ individual experience ⓘ mysticism ⓘ personal transformation ⓘ self-realization ⓘ spiritual growth ⓘ syncretism ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
New Age
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surface form:
New Age movement
New Age ⓘ
surface form:
New Age spirituality
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| hasOriginRegion |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Western world ⓘ |
| holdsBelief |
coming new era of higher consciousness
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divinity within the self ⓘ immanence of the divine ⓘ spiritual evolution of humanity ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Buddhism
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Eastern religions ⓘ Hinduism ⓘ Jungian psychology ⓘ Spiritualism ⓘ Taoism ⓘ Theosophy ⓘ Western esotericism ⓘ Chan Buddhism ⓘ
surface form:
Zen Buddhism
human potential movement ⓘ occultism ⓘ |
| teaches |
existence of universal energy
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interconnectedness of all life ⓘ karma ⓘ law of attraction ⓘ reincarnation ⓘ |
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: New Age Description of subject: New Age is a modern spiritual movement that blends elements of Western esotericism, Eastern religions, and holistic practices, emphasizing personal transformation, mysticism, and alternative healing.
Referenced by (22)
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