LSD Church
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LSD Church is an informal name for the League for Spiritual Discovery, a 1960s-era psychedelic spiritual organization associated with Timothy Leary and the use of LSD as a sacrament.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| LSD Church canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8027838 — 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: LSD Church Context triple: [League for Spiritual Discovery, hasAlternativeName, LSD Church]
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A.
Goat Church
Goat Church is a prominent historic Catholic church in Sopron, Hungary, known for its Gothic architecture and richly decorated interior.
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B.
Psychedelic Shack
Psychedelic Shack is a 1970 studio album by The Temptations that showcases their shift into psychedelic soul with experimental production and socially conscious themes.
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C.
Sea Org
Sea Org is an elite, quasi-paramilitary religious order within the Church of Scientology whose members commit to serving the organization, often for life, under strict discipline and communal living conditions.
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D.
Scientology
Scientology is a controversial modern religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard that combines elements of self-help, science fiction, and spiritual counseling practices.
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E.
Psychédélices
Psychédélices is the second studio album by French pop singer Alizée, showcasing a more mature, electro-pop sound that marked her artistic evolution after her early success.
- 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: LSD Church Target entity description: LSD Church is an informal name for the League for Spiritual Discovery, a 1960s-era psychedelic spiritual organization associated with Timothy Leary and the use of LSD as a sacrament.
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A.
Goat Church
Goat Church is a prominent historic Catholic church in Sopron, Hungary, known for its Gothic architecture and richly decorated interior.
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B.
Psychedelic Shack
Psychedelic Shack is a 1970 studio album by The Temptations that showcases their shift into psychedelic soul with experimental production and socially conscious themes.
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C.
Sea Org
Sea Org is an elite, quasi-paramilitary religious order within the Church of Scientology whose members commit to serving the organization, often for life, under strict discipline and communal living conditions.
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D.
Scientology
Scientology is a controversial modern religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard that combines elements of self-help, science fiction, and spiritual counseling practices.
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E.
Psychédélices
Psychédélices is the second studio album by French pop singer Alizée, showcasing a more mature, electro-pop sound that marked her artistic evolution after her early success.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
psychedelic spiritual organization
ⓘ
religious organization ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf | League for Spiritual Discovery ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| aimsTo | integrate psychedelic experience with religious practice ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Harvard psychedelic research legacy
ⓘ
Timothy Leary ⓘ |
| classification |
new religious movement
ⓘ
psychedelic religion ⓘ |
| coreBelief |
LSD can facilitate spiritual enlightenment
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psychedelic experience can be a religious sacrament ⓘ |
| corePractice | use of psychedelic drugs in spiritual context ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era | 1960s ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Timothy Leary ⓘ |
| hasAcronym | LSD ⓘ |
| hasConcept | set and setting in spiritual use of LSD ⓘ |
| hasInformalName | League for Spiritual Discovery ⓘ |
| hasKeyFigure | Timothy Leary ⓘ |
| historicalContext | post-Harvard period of Timothy Leary ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
American counterculture
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Eastern mysticism ⓘ psychedelic research of early 1960s ⓘ |
| movement |
counterculture of the 1960s
ⓘ
psychedelic movement ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
U.S. drug authorities
ⓘ
mainstream religious institutions ⓘ |
| promotedBy | Timothy Leary’s public lectures ⓘ |
| religiousOrientation |
New Age spirituality
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psychedelic spirituality ⓘ |
| religiousUseOf | LSD ⓘ |
| status | defunct organization ⓘ |
| theologicalFocus |
expanded consciousness
ⓘ
mystical experience ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| treatsAsSacrament | LSD ⓘ |
| usesSubstance | lysergic acid diethylamide ⓘ |
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: LSD Church Description of subject: LSD Church is an informal name for the League for Spiritual Discovery, a 1960s-era psychedelic spiritual organization associated with Timothy Leary and the use of LSD as a sacrament.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.