New England Society for Psychic Research
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The New England Society for Psychic Research is a paranormal investigation organization founded in 1952 by Ed and Lorraine Warren, known for probing alleged hauntings and demonic activity across the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New England Society for Psychic Research canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9969646 — 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 England Society for Psychic Research Context triple: [Ed Warren, coFounderOf, New England Society for Psychic Research]
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A.
Society for Psychical Research
The Society for Psychical Research is a British organization founded in 1882 to conduct systematic and scientific investigations into paranormal and psychical phenomena such as telepathy, apparitions, and mediumship.
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B.
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal was an organization of scientists, scholars, and skeptics dedicated to critically examining paranormal and pseudoscientific claims using scientific methods.
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C.
National Spiritualist Association of Churches
The National Spiritualist Association of Churches is a major U.S. religious organization that promotes and organizes the practice and philosophy of Spiritualism through affiliated congregations and educational activities.
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D.
Spiritualists' National Union
The Spiritualists' National Union is a UK-based organization that promotes and supports the practice, philosophy, and education of Spiritualism and spiritualist churches.
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E.
Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense
The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense is a fictional secret government organization in the Hellboy universe that investigates and combats supernatural and occult threats.
- 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 England Society for Psychic Research Target entity description: The New England Society for Psychic Research is a paranormal investigation organization founded in 1952 by Ed and Lorraine Warren, known for probing alleged hauntings and demonic activity across the United States.
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A.
Society for Psychical Research
The Society for Psychical Research is a British organization founded in 1882 to conduct systematic and scientific investigations into paranormal and psychical phenomena such as telepathy, apparitions, and mediumship.
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B.
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal was an organization of scientists, scholars, and skeptics dedicated to critically examining paranormal and pseudoscientific claims using scientific methods.
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C.
National Spiritualist Association of Churches
The National Spiritualist Association of Churches is a major U.S. religious organization that promotes and organizes the practice and philosophy of Spiritualism through affiliated congregations and educational activities.
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D.
Spiritualists' National Union
The Spiritualists' National Union is a UK-based organization that promotes and supports the practice, philosophy, and education of Spiritualism and spiritualist churches.
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E.
Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense
The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense is a fictional secret government organization in the Hellboy universe that investigates and combats supernatural and occult threats.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
non-profit organization
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paranormal investigation organization ⓘ |
| activity |
collection of case files on paranormal phenomena
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investigation of alleged demonic activity ⓘ investigation of alleged hauntings ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Roman Catholic clergy (for exorcism-related cases) ⓘ |
| basedInRegion | New England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| field |
demonology
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haunting investigation ⓘ paranormal investigation ⓘ |
| foundedByOccupation |
clairvoyant (Lorraine Warren)
NERFINISHED
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demonologist (Ed Warren) ⓘ trance medium (Lorraine Warren) ⓘ |
| founder |
Ed Warren
NERFINISHED
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Lorraine Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1952 ⓘ |
| hasAffiliation | Ed and Lorraine Warren Occult Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasArchive |
case files on alleged demonic possession
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case files on alleged hauntings ⓘ |
| hasFocus | Catholic-influenced demonology ⓘ |
| influenced | popular culture depictions of paranormal investigation ⓘ |
| notableCase |
Amityville haunting
NERFINISHED
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Annabelle doll case NERFINISHED ⓘ Enfield Poltergeist (consultative role) NERFINISHED ⓘ Perron family haunting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Ed Warren
NERFINISHED
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Lorraine Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfActivity |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
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 England Society for Psychic Research Description of subject: The New England Society for Psychic Research is a paranormal investigation organization founded in 1952 by Ed and Lorraine Warren, known for probing alleged hauntings and demonic activity across the United States.
Referenced by (1)
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