Massimo Polidoro
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Massimo Polidoro is an Italian psychologist, writer, and prominent skeptic known for investigating paranormal claims and promoting scientific skepticism, notably as a co-founder and leading figure of the Italian skeptics organization CICAP.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Massimo Polidoro canonical | 7 |
| Massimo | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T308227 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Massimo Polidoro Context triple: [James Randi, influenced, Massimo Polidoro]
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Alfredo Guzzoni
Alfredo Guzzoni was an Italian army general who commanded Axis forces in Sicily during World War II.
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Rossano Rubicondi
Rossano Rubicondi was an Italian actor, model, and television personality best known internationally for his high-profile marriage to Ivana Trump.
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C.
Riccardo Mazzucchelli
Riccardo Mazzucchelli was an Italian businessman and entrepreneur known for his brief high-profile marriage to socialite and businesswoman Ivana Trump.
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D.
Antonio Quarracino
Antonio Quarracino was an Argentine cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Buenos Aires and played a key role in the ecclesiastical career of Pope Francis.
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E.
Enrico De Nicola
Enrico De Nicola was an Italian jurist and politician who served as the first head of state of the Italian Republic after World War II.
- 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: Massimo Polidoro Target entity description: Massimo Polidoro is an Italian psychologist, writer, and prominent skeptic known for investigating paranormal claims and promoting scientific skepticism, notably as a co-founder and leading figure of the Italian skeptics organization CICAP.
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A.
Alfredo Guzzoni
Alfredo Guzzoni was an Italian army general who commanded Axis forces in Sicily during World War II.
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B.
Rossano Rubicondi
Rossano Rubicondi was an Italian actor, model, and television personality best known internationally for his high-profile marriage to Ivana Trump.
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C.
Riccardo Mazzucchelli
Riccardo Mazzucchelli was an Italian businessman and entrepreneur known for his brief high-profile marriage to socialite and businesswoman Ivana Trump.
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D.
Antonio Quarracino
Antonio Quarracino was an Argentine cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Buenos Aires and played a key role in the ecclesiastical career of Pope Francis.
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E.
Enrico De Nicola
Enrico De Nicola was an Italian jurist and politician who served as the first head of state of the Italian Republic after World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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psychologist ⓘ science communicator ⓘ skeptic ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| associatedWith | James Randi ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | CICAP ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Italy ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Milan
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surface form:
University of Milan-Bicocca
University of Padua ⓘ |
| familyName | Polidoro ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
paranormal investigation
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psychology ⓘ science communication ⓘ scientific skepticism ⓘ |
| genre |
essays
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non-fiction ⓘ popular science ⓘ |
| givenName |
Massimo Polidoro
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Massimo
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| hasRole |
educator in scientific method
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public speaker on critical thinking ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.massimopolidoro.com ⓘ |
| hasWorkedOn | television programs about mysteries and the paranormal ⓘ |
| influencedBy | James Randi ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding CICAP
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investigating paranormal claims ⓘ promoting scientific skepticism ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Italian ⓘ |
| memberOf | CICAP ⓘ |
| movement |
scientific skepticism
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skeptical movement ⓘ |
| name | Massimo Polidoro self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Italian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
books on paranormal phenomena
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books on scientific skepticism ⓘ popular science books ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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lecturer ⓘ psychologist ⓘ science communicator ⓘ skeptic ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Italy ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
executive director of CICAP
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leading figure of CICAP ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Massimo Polidoro Description of subject: Massimo Polidoro is an Italian psychologist, writer, and prominent skeptic known for investigating paranormal claims and promoting scientific skepticism, notably as a co-founder and leading figure of the Italian skeptics organization CICAP.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Massimo
subject surface form:
Massimo D'Alema
this entity surface form:
Massimo
this entity surface form:
Massimo
subject surface form:
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry