Scienza & Paranormale
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Scienza & Paranormale is an Italian popular science magazine focused on critically examining paranormal claims and pseudoscience, published by the skeptical organization CICAP.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scienza & Paranormale canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8503470 — 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: Scienza & Paranormale Context triple: [CICAP, hasPublication, Scienza & Paranormale]
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A.
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural is a reference book by skeptic and magician James Randi that critically examines and debunks a wide range of paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims.
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B.
The Supernaturalist
The Supernaturalist is a young adult science fiction novel by Eoin Colfer set in a dystopian future where a group of teens hunt invisible life-sucking creatures.
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C.
Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions is a skeptical book by magician and debunker James Randi that critically examines and exposes claims of the paranormal, pseudoscience, and superstition.
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D.
One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge
The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge was a long-running offer of a cash prize to anyone who could demonstrate genuine paranormal abilities under controlled scientific testing conditions.
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E.
What Psychical Research Has Accomplished
"What Psychical Research Has Accomplished" is an essay by William James in which he critically examines and summarizes the findings and significance of late 19th-century psychical research into phenomena such as telepathy and spiritualism.
- 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: Scienza & Paranormale Target entity description: Scienza & Paranormale is an Italian popular science magazine focused on critically examining paranormal claims and pseudoscience, published by the skeptical organization CICAP.
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A.
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural is a reference book by skeptic and magician James Randi that critically examines and debunks a wide range of paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims.
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B.
The Supernaturalist
The Supernaturalist is a young adult science fiction novel by Eoin Colfer set in a dystopian future where a group of teens hunt invisible life-sucking creatures.
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C.
Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions is a skeptical book by magician and debunker James Randi that critically examines and exposes claims of the paranormal, pseudoscience, and superstition.
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D.
One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge
The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge was a long-running offer of a cash prize to anyone who could demonstrate genuine paranormal abilities under controlled scientific testing conditions.
-
E.
What Psychical Research Has Accomplished
"What Psychical Research Has Accomplished" is an essay by William James in which he critically examines and summarizes the findings and significance of late 19th-century psychical research into phenomena such as telepathy and spiritualism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | magazine ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
analyze extraordinary claims using scientific methods
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promote critical thinking ⓘ promote scientific literacy ⓘ |
| associatedWith | CICAP ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Italy ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
critical examination of paranormal claims
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debunking pseudoscience ⓘ scientific skepticism ⓘ |
| genre |
science communication
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skeptical magazine ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
evidence-based analysis
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scientific skepticism ⓘ |
| language | Italian ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
paranormal claims
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pseudoscience ⓘ science ⓘ |
| mediaType | print magazine ⓘ |
| publishedBy | CICAP ⓘ |
| publisher | CICAP ⓘ |
| publisherType | skeptical organization ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general public
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readers interested in paranormal topics ⓘ readers interested in science ⓘ |
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: Scienza & Paranormale Description of subject: Scienza & Paranormale is an Italian popular science magazine focused on critically examining paranormal claims and pseudoscience, published by the skeptical organization CICAP.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.