Uri Geller
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Uri Geller is an Israeli-British illusionist and self-proclaimed psychic best known for his controversial spoon-bending feats and high-profile demonstrations of alleged paranormal abilities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Uri Geller canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1796353 — 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: Uri Geller Context triple: [The Truth About Uri Geller, mainSubject, Uri Geller]
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A.
Derren Brown
Derren Brown is a British illusionist, mentalist, and author known for his psychological magic shows and television specials that explore suggestion, misdirection, and the limits of perception.
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B.
James Randi
James Randi was a Canadian-American stage magician and prominent skeptic best known for debunking paranormal and pseudoscientific claims through rigorous scientific investigation and public challenges.
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C.
Randi
Randi is a feminine given name most notably borne by Randi Zuckerberg, an American businesswoman and former Facebook executive.
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D.
Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette is an American magician, comedian, author, and outspoken skeptic best known as half of the magic duo Penn & Teller.
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E.
Daniel Gerson
Daniel Gerson was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing several popular Pixar and Disney animated films, including Monsters, Inc., Monsters University, and Big Hero 6.
- 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: Uri Geller Target entity description: Uri Geller is an Israeli-British illusionist and self-proclaimed psychic best known for his controversial spoon-bending feats and high-profile demonstrations of alleged paranormal abilities.
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A.
Derren Brown
Derren Brown is a British illusionist, mentalist, and author known for his psychological magic shows and television specials that explore suggestion, misdirection, and the limits of perception.
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B.
James Randi
James Randi was a Canadian-American stage magician and prominent skeptic best known for debunking paranormal and pseudoscientific claims through rigorous scientific investigation and public challenges.
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C.
Randi
Randi is a feminine given name most notably borne by Randi Zuckerberg, an American businesswoman and former Facebook executive.
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D.
Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette is an American magician, comedian, author, and outspoken skeptic best known as half of the magic duo Penn & Teller.
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E.
Daniel Gerson
Daniel Gerson was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing several popular Pixar and Disney animated films, including Monsters, Inc., Monsters University, and Big Hero 6.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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illusionist ⓘ self-proclaimed psychic ⓘ television personality ⓘ |
| birthName | Uri Geller ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Israel
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Mandatory Palestine ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence |
Israel
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-12-20 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName | Geller ⓘ |
| genre |
mentalism
ⓘ
stage magic ⓘ |
| givenName | Uri ⓘ |
| hasAssociatedConcept |
psychokinesis
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spoon bending controversy ⓘ telepathy ⓘ |
| hasClaim |
claims to bend metal using psychokinesis
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claims to have paranormal abilities ⓘ claims to perform telepathy ⓘ |
| hasCriticism |
criticized by skeptics as using conjuring tricks
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subject of investigations by magicians and scientists ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | public perception of psychic abilities ⓘ |
| hasLegalAction | filed lawsuits against critics and media organizations ⓘ |
| hasMediaAppearance | frequent guest on talk shows in the 1970s ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Judaism ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
parapsychology
ⓘ
psychic phenomena ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://www.urigeller.com ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ |
| movement | paranormal movement ⓘ |
| name | Uri Geller ⓘ |
| notableFor |
spoon bending
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stage performances involving metal bending ⓘ television demonstrations of alleged psychokinesis ⓘ |
| notableWork |
books on psychic powers and self-improvement
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television specials featuring spoon bending ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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illusionist ⓘ self-proclaimed psychic ⓘ television personality ⓘ |
| participatedIn | television shows in multiple countries ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tel Aviv ⓘ |
| residence |
Israel
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Uri Geller Description of subject: Uri Geller is an Israeli-British illusionist and self-proclaimed psychic best known for his controversial spoon-bending feats and high-profile demonstrations of alleged paranormal abilities.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.