law of attraction
E119765
New Thought teaching
metaphysical doctrine
pseudoscientific belief
self-help concept
spiritual concept
The law of attraction is a New Thought spiritual concept claiming that people can manifest desired outcomes in their lives by focusing their thoughts, feelings, and intentions on them.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| law of attraction canonical | 7 |
| Law of attraction | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1047873 — 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: law of attraction Context triple: [The Secret, basedOn, law of attraction]
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A.
law of karma
The law of karma is a spiritual principle, central to Indian religions, that holds a person’s intentional actions inevitably shape their future experiences across this and possible future lives.
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B.
law of universal gravitation
The law of universal gravitation is Newton’s fundamental physical law stating that every pair of masses in the universe attracts each other with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
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C.
Karma
"Karma" is a Grammy-winning R&B song by Alicia Keys, known for its soulful vocals and themes of romantic betrayal and retribution.
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D.
spirit way
The spirit way is a ceremonial, statue-lined avenue leading to imperial tombs in China, most famously at the Ming Tombs near Beijing.
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E.
hooponopono
Ho‘oponopono is a traditional Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness that focuses on healing relationships and restoring harmony through prayer, confession, and mutual restitution.
- 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: law of attraction Target entity description: The law of attraction is a New Thought spiritual concept claiming that people can manifest desired outcomes in their lives by focusing their thoughts, feelings, and intentions on them.
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A.
law of karma
The law of karma is a spiritual principle, central to Indian religions, that holds a person’s intentional actions inevitably shape their future experiences across this and possible future lives.
-
B.
law of universal gravitation
The law of universal gravitation is Newton’s fundamental physical law stating that every pair of masses in the universe attracts each other with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
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C.
Karma
"Karma" is a Grammy-winning R&B song by Alicia Keys, known for its soulful vocals and themes of romantic betrayal and retribution.
-
D.
spirit way
The spirit way is a ceremonial, statue-lined avenue leading to imperial tombs in China, most famously at the Ming Tombs near Beijing.
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E.
hooponopono
Ho‘oponopono is a traditional Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness that focuses on healing relationships and restoring harmony through prayer, confession, and mutual restitution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Thought teaching
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metaphysical doctrine ⓘ pseudoscientific belief ⓘ self-help concept ⓘ spiritual concept ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
New Age spirituality
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linked to:
New Age
affirmations ⓘ life coaching ⓘ manifestation practices ⓘ positive thinking movement ⓘ prosperity gospel ⓘ self-help literature ⓘ spiritual coaching ⓘ visualization techniques ⓘ |
| claimedEffect |
improved well-being
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manifestation of career success ⓘ manifestation of health ⓘ manifestation of relationships ⓘ manifestation of wealth ⓘ |
| criticizedAs |
lacking empirical evidence
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pseudoscience ⓘ |
| criticizedBy |
psychologists
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scientists ⓘ skeptics ⓘ |
| criticizedFor |
blaming individuals for misfortune
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encouraging magical thinking ⓘ oversimplifying complex social and economic factors ⓘ |
| hasCoreIdea |
belief and faith are necessary for manifestation
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emotions and feelings shape experiences ⓘ gratitude attracts more of what one is grateful for ⓘ like attracts like ⓘ mental focus can manifest desires ⓘ negative thinking attracts negative outcomes ⓘ people attract circumstances matching their dominant thoughts ⓘ positive thinking attracts positive outcomes ⓘ the universe responds to intentions ⓘ thoughts influence reality ⓘ vibrational alignment with desires is required ⓘ visualization helps create reality ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalRoot |
19th-century metaphysical traditions
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American New Thought writers ⓘ |
| hasOriginMovement |
New Thought movement
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linked to:
new thought
|
| popularizedBy | Rhonda Byrne ⓘ |
| popularizedThrough |
The Secret (book)
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linked to:
The Secret
The Secret (film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Secret
|
| relatedConcept |
mind over matter (informal)
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positive psychology (loosely and controversially) ⓘ
linked to:
positive psychology
|
| requiresPractice |
emotional alignment with goals
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regular visualization ⓘ repetition of affirmations ⓘ sustained positive focus ⓘ |
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: law of attraction Description of subject: The law of attraction is a New Thought spiritual concept claiming that people can manifest desired outcomes in their lives by focusing their thoughts, feelings, and intentions on them.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.