Howard Stanton Levey
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Howard Stanton Levey, better known as Anton LaVey, was an American occultist, author, and musician who founded the Church of Satan and wrote The Satanic Bible.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard Stanton Levey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6653679 — 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: Howard Stanton Levey Context triple: [Anton LaVey, fullName, Howard Stanton Levey]
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A.
Joseph E. Levine
Joseph E. Levine was an influential American film producer and distributor known for aggressively marketing and popularizing both foreign and domestic films in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Benn W. Levy
Benn W. Levy was a British playwright, screenwriter, and politician known for his work in early sound cinema and his later career as a Labour Member of Parliament.
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C.
Robert L. Levy
Robert L. Levy is a film producer best known for his work on popular Hollywood comedies, including the hit movie "Wedding Crashers."
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D.
Leon Levy
Leon Levy was an American investor, philanthropist, and patron of the humanities known for his significant support of archaeology, the arts, and biographical scholarship.
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E.
Sidney Levin
Sidney Levin was a film editor best known for his work on influential American movies such as Martin Scorsese’s early crime drama "Mean Streets."
- 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: Howard Stanton Levey Target entity description: Howard Stanton Levey, better known as Anton LaVey, was an American occultist, author, and musician who founded the Church of Satan and wrote The Satanic Bible.
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A.
Joseph E. Levine
Joseph E. Levine was an influential American film producer and distributor known for aggressively marketing and popularizing both foreign and domestic films in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Benn W. Levy
Benn W. Levy was a British playwright, screenwriter, and politician known for his work in early sound cinema and his later career as a Labour Member of Parliament.
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C.
Robert L. Levy
Robert L. Levy is a film producer best known for his work on popular Hollywood comedies, including the hit movie "Wedding Crashers."
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D.
Leon Levy
Leon Levy was an American investor, philanthropist, and patron of the humanities known for his significant support of archaeology, the arts, and biographical scholarship.
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E.
Sidney Levin
Sidney Levin was a film editor best known for his work on influential American movies such as Martin Scorsese’s early crime drama "Mean Streets."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
founder of religious organization
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ occultist ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Anton LaVey
NERFINISHED
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Anton Szandor LaVey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Howard Stanton Levey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | columbarium, location undisclosed ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pulmonary edema ⓘ |
| child |
Karla LaVey
NERFINISHED
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Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey NERFINISHED ⓘ Zeena Schreck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1930-04-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1997-10-29 ⓘ |
| familyName | Levey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Church of Satan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
dark ambient
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occult rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Howard Stanton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | modern Satanism ⓘ |
| instrument |
calliope
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organ ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| movement | LaVeyan Satanism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
atheistic Satanism
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indulgence over abstinence ⓘ symbolic Satanism ⓘ |
| notableResidence | Black House, San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Satan Speaks!
NERFINISHED
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The Devil's Notebook NERFINISHED ⓘ The Satanic Bible NERFINISHED ⓘ The Satanic Rituals NERFINISHED ⓘ The Satanic Witch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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carnival worker ⓘ musician ⓘ occultist ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| partner |
Blanche Barton
NERFINISHED
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Diane Hegarty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | San Francisco, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religionFounded | LaVeyan Satanism ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Carole Lansing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Howard Stanton Levey Description of subject: Howard Stanton Levey, better known as Anton LaVey, was an American occultist, author, and musician who founded the Church of Satan and wrote The Satanic Bible.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.