Wicca
E298946
Wicca is a modern pagan, nature-centered religion that draws on pre-Christian traditions, ritual magic, and reverence for both goddess and god figures.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wicca canonical | 5 |
| Gardnerian Wicca | 2 |
| Alexandrian Wicca | 1 |
| Dianic Wicca | 1 |
| Eclectic Wicca | 1 |
| Wiccan Wheel of the Year | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2793634 — 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: Wicca Context triple: [Falcon Circle, religiousAffiliation, Wicca]
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A.
Pagan
Pagan is a volcanic island in the Northern Mariana Islands known for its active stratovolcanoes and history of significant eruptions.
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B.
Pagan
Pagan, also known as Bagan, is an ancient city in Myanmar renowned for its vast plain of thousands of Buddhist temples and pagodas dating from the 9th to 13th centuries.
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C.
Baduizm
Baduizm is a critically acclaimed neo-soul album by Erykah Badu that helped define her signature sound and establish her as a major figure in contemporary R&B.
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D.
Sanamahism
Sanamahism is an indigenous animistic and ancestor-worshipping religion of the Meitei people of Manipur, centered on the worship of the deity Sanamahi and a pantheon of nature and household spirits.
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E.
Tengrism
Tengrism is an ancient Central Asian shamanistic and animistic belief system centered on the sky god Tengri, traditionally practiced by Turkic and Mongolic peoples including the Mongols.
- 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: Wicca Target entity description: Wicca is a modern pagan, nature-centered religion that draws on pre-Christian traditions, ritual magic, and reverence for both goddess and god figures.
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A.
Pagan
Pagan is a volcanic island in the Northern Mariana Islands known for its active stratovolcanoes and history of significant eruptions.
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B.
Pagan
Pagan, also known as Bagan, is an ancient city in Myanmar renowned for its vast plain of thousands of Buddhist temples and pagodas dating from the 9th to 13th centuries.
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C.
Baduizm
Baduizm is a critically acclaimed neo-soul album by Erykah Badu that helped define her signature sound and establish her as a major figure in contemporary R&B.
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D.
Sanamahism
Sanamahism is an indigenous animistic and ancestor-worshipping religion of the Meitei people of Manipur, centered on the worship of the deity Sanamahi and a pantheon of nature and household spirits.
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E.
Tengrism
Tengrism is an ancient Central Asian shamanistic and animistic belief system centered on the sky god Tengri, traditionally practiced by Turkic and Mongolic peoples including the Mongols.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
modern pagan religion
ⓘ
nature-centered religion ⓘ new religious movement ⓘ |
| celebrates |
Beltane
ⓘ
Imbolc ⓘ Litha ⓘ Lughnasadh ⓘ Mabon ⓘ Ostara ⓘ Samhain ⓘ Wheel of the Year ⓘ Yule ⓘ |
| coreBelief |
immanence of the divine in nature
ⓘ
reverence for nature ⓘ veneration of a goddess and a god ⓘ |
| drawsOn | pre-Christian religious traditions ⓘ |
| emergedIn | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
animism
ⓘ
duotheism ⓘ magic as willful change in accordance with will ⓘ polytheism ⓘ reincarnation ⓘ |
| hasDeityConcept |
God
ⓘ
Goddess ⓘ |
| hasEthic |
law of karma
ⓘ
surface form:
Threefold Law
Silver Rule ⓘ
surface form:
Wiccan Rede
|
| hasPractice |
meditation
ⓘ
ritual observance of lunar cycles ⓘ ritual purification ⓘ ritual use of tools such as athame and wand ⓘ spellcraft ⓘ |
| hasRitualElement |
calling the quarters
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casting a circle ⓘ esbats ⓘ invocation of deities ⓘ seasonal festivals ⓘ |
| hasSacredText | Book of Shadows ⓘ |
| hasTradition |
Wicca
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Alexandrian Wicca
Wicca self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Dianic Wicca
Wicca self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Eclectic Wicca
Wicca self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Gardnerian Wicca
Seax-Wica ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Western esotericism
ⓘ
ceremonial magic ⓘ folk magic traditions ⓘ |
| originatedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| popularizedBy | Gerald Gardner ⓘ |
| religiousOrientation | paganism ⓘ |
| uses | ritual magic ⓘ |
| viewsMagicAs | natural force ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Wicca Description of subject: Wicca is a modern pagan, nature-centered religion that draws on pre-Christian traditions, ritual magic, and reverence for both goddess and god figures.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Gardnerian Wicca
this entity surface form:
Wiccan Wheel of the Year
this entity surface form:
Gardnerian Wicca
this entity surface form:
Alexandrian Wicca
this entity surface form:
Dianic Wicca
this entity surface form:
Eclectic Wicca