Dion Fortune
E121025
Dion Fortune was a British occultist, author, and ceremonial magician known for her influential writings on Western esotericism, psychic self-defense, and the modern revival of mystical Qabalah.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dion Fortune canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1015081 — 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: Dion Fortune Context triple: [Hermetic Qabalah, hasKeyFigure, Dion Fortune]
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A.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
Ethel Lilian Voynich was an Anglo-Irish novelist, musician, and revolutionary best known for her popular 1897 novel "The Gadfly."
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B.
Susan Blackmore
Susan Blackmore is a British psychologist, writer, and skeptic best known for her work on consciousness, memes, and the scientific investigation of paranormal claims.
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C.
Maryon Pearson
Maryon Pearson was a Canadian political spouse and noted wit, best known as the wife of former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.
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D.
E. M. Holmes
E. M. Holmes was a British botanist known for his work in pharmacognosy and the study of medicinal plants.
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E.
Violet Bonham Carter
Violet Bonham Carter was a prominent British Liberal politician, orator, and diarist who played a significant role in early 20th-century political life and was later created Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury.
- 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: Dion Fortune Target entity description: Dion Fortune was a British occultist, author, and ceremonial magician known for her influential writings on Western esotericism, psychic self-defense, and the modern revival of mystical Qabalah.
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A.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
Ethel Lilian Voynich was an Anglo-Irish novelist, musician, and revolutionary best known for her popular 1897 novel "The Gadfly."
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B.
Susan Blackmore
Susan Blackmore is a British psychologist, writer, and skeptic best known for her work on consciousness, memes, and the scientific investigation of paranormal claims.
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C.
Maryon Pearson
Maryon Pearson was a Canadian political spouse and noted wit, best known as the wife of former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.
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D.
E. M. Holmes
E. M. Holmes was a British botanist known for his work in pharmacognosy and the study of medicinal plants.
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E.
Violet Bonham Carter
Violet Bonham Carter was a prominent British Liberal politician, orator, and diarist who played a significant role in early 20th-century political life and was later created Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Dion Fortune Description of subject: Dion Fortune was a British occultist, author, and ceremonial magician known for her influential writings on Western esotericism, psychic self-defense, and the modern revival of mystical Qabalah.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.