Ed Warren
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Ed Warren is a renowned paranormal investigator and demonologist, famously portrayed in "The Conjuring" film series based on his real-life cases with his wife Lorraine.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ed Warren canonical | 5 |
| Lorraine Warren | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1748152 — 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: Ed Warren Context triple: [The Conjuring, mainCharacter, Ed Warren]
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A.
Joe Nickell
Joe Nickell is an American investigator and author best known for his skeptical examinations of paranormal, religious, and historical claims.
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B.
John Mack
John Mack is a collegiate athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director of Princeton University.
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C.
Silas Laurence Loomis
Silas Laurence Loomis was a 19th-century American physician, inventor, and educator known for his contributions to medical science and technological innovation.
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D.
Sylvanus Warren
Sylvanus Warren was a 19th-century American lawyer and civic leader best known as the father of Emily Warren Roebling, who played a key role in the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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E.
Lynn Harold Loomis
Lynn Harold Loomis was an American mathematician known for his work in analysis and for coauthoring the influential textbook "Introduction to Abstract Harmonic Analysis."
- 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: Ed Warren Target entity description: Ed Warren is a renowned paranormal investigator and demonologist, famously portrayed in "The Conjuring" film series based on his real-life cases with his wife Lorraine.
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A.
Joe Nickell
Joe Nickell is an American investigator and author best known for his skeptical examinations of paranormal, religious, and historical claims.
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B.
John Mack
John Mack is a collegiate athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director of Princeton University.
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C.
Silas Laurence Loomis
Silas Laurence Loomis was a 19th-century American physician, inventor, and educator known for his contributions to medical science and technological innovation.
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D.
Sylvanus Warren
Sylvanus Warren was a 19th-century American lawyer and civic leader best known as the father of Emily Warren Roebling, who played a key role in the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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E.
Lynn Harold Loomis
Lynn Harold Loomis was an American mathematician known for his work in analysis and for coauthoring the influential textbook "Introduction to Abstract Harmonic Analysis."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
demonologist
ⓘ
paranormal investigator ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Roman Catholic Church rituals in investigations ⓘ |
| birthName | Edward Warren Miney ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | New England Society for Psychic Research ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| familyName | Warren ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
demonology
ⓘ
ghost hunting ⓘ paranormal research ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward ⓘ |
| hasBelief |
efficacy of exorcism
ⓘ
existence of demons ⓘ reality of demonic possession ⓘ |
| hasGenre | paranormal non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Lorraine Warren ⓘ |
| hasReputation | controversial figure in paranormal research ⓘ |
| inspired |
The Conjuring Universe films
ⓘ
surface form:
The Conjuring Universe film franchise
|
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mediaAppearance |
documentaries on paranormal phenomena
ⓘ
television talk shows about hauntings ⓘ |
| notableCase |
Amityville
ⓘ
surface form:
Amityville house investigation
Annabelle ⓘ
surface form:
Annabelle doll investigation
Arne Cheyenne Johnson murder case ⓘ Enfield council house investigation ⓘ Perron farmhouse investigation ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Amityville
ⓘ
surface form:
Amityville haunting investigation
Annabelle ⓘ
surface form:
Annabelle doll case
Arne Cheyenne Johnson "Devil Made Me Do It" case ⓘ Enfield poltergeist case ⓘ
surface form:
Enfield poltergeist investigation
Perron family haunting case ⓘ co-founding the New England Society for Psychic Research ⓘ investigating alleged hauntings ⓘ |
| notableWork | books on demonology and hauntings co-authored with Lorraine Warren ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
demonologist ⓘ lecturer ⓘ paranormal investigator ⓘ |
| partnerInWork | Lorraine Warren ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Patrick Wilson ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
The Conjuring
ⓘ
The Conjuring 2 ⓘ The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It ⓘ |
| religiousBelief | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| spouse | Lorraine Warren ⓘ |
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: Ed Warren Description of subject: Ed Warren is a renowned paranormal investigator and demonologist, famously portrayed in "The Conjuring" film series based on his real-life cases with his wife Lorraine.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lorraine Warren