Gerald Gardner
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Gerald Gardner was a British civil servant and occultist widely regarded as the founder of modern Wicca in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gerald Gardner canonical | 19 |
| Gerald Brosseau Gardner | 3 |
| Gerald Gardner (Wicca founder) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1796681 — 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: Gerald Gardner Context triple: [Gardner, hasNotableBearer, Gerald Gardner]
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A.
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers was a British occultist and co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, influential in the development of modern Western esotericism and ceremonial magic.
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B.
Dion Fortune
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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C.
Eliphas Levi
Eliphas Levi was a 19th-century French occultist and writer whose works profoundly shaped modern Western esotericism and ceremonial magic.
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D.
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer who founded the religion of Thelema and became one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern Western esotericism.
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E.
Israel Regardie
Israel Regardie was a British occultist, writer, and ceremonial magician best known for preserving and publishing the teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and popularizing modern Hermetic Qabalah.
- 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: Gerald Gardner Target entity description: Gerald Gardner was a British civil servant and occultist widely regarded as the founder of modern Wicca in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers was a British occultist and co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, influential in the development of modern Western esotericism and ceremonial magic.
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B.
Dion Fortune
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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C.
Eliphas Levi
Eliphas Levi was a 19th-century French occultist and writer whose works profoundly shaped modern Western esotericism and ceremonial magic.
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D.
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer who founded the religion of Thelema and became one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern Western esotericism.
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E.
Israel Regardie
Israel Regardie was a British occultist, writer, and ceremonial magician best known for preserving and publishing the teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and popularizing modern Hermetic Qabalah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Gerald Gardner Description of subject: Gerald Gardner was a British civil servant and occultist widely regarded as the founder of modern Wicca in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Gerald Gardner
linked to: Gerald Gardner
subject linked to:
film "The World’s Greatest Athlete" (1973)
subject linked to:
film "The World’s Greatest Athlete" (1973)
linked to: Gerald Gardner
linked to: Gerald Gardner