single "Telekinesis"
E747313
Telekinesis is the purported psychic ability to move or manipulate objects without physical contact, using only the power of the mind.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| single "Telekinesis" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8636964 — 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: single "Telekinesis" Context triple: [Utopia, hasPart, single "Telekinesis"]
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A.
Mind Power
"Mind Power" is a track from A Tribe Called Quest’s 1996 album *Beats, Rhymes and Life*, showcasing the group’s thoughtful lyricism and jazz-influenced hip-hop sound.
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B.
No Hands
"No Hands" is a popular hip hop single by Roscoe Dash, Waka Flocka Flame, and Wale that became a major club hit in the early 2010s.
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C.
Magic Touch
"Magic Touch" is a song featured on Aerosmith's 1987 album *Permanent Vacation*.
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D.
“Touch”
“Touch” is a track by the Japanese rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel from their album *Seal IV*.
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E.
Phantom Limb
"Phantom Limb" is a song by American rock band Alice in Chains from their 2013 album *The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here*.
- 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: single "Telekinesis" Target entity description: Telekinesis is the purported psychic ability to move or manipulate objects without physical contact, using only the power of the mind.
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A.
Mind Power
"Mind Power" is a track from A Tribe Called Quest’s 1996 album *Beats, Rhymes and Life*, showcasing the group’s thoughtful lyricism and jazz-influenced hip-hop sound.
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B.
No Hands
"No Hands" is a popular hip hop single by Roscoe Dash, Waka Flocka Flame, and Wale that became a major club hit in the early 2010s.
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C.
Magic Touch
"Magic Touch" is a song featured on Aerosmith's 1987 album *Permanent Vacation*.
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D.
“Touch”
“Touch” is a track by the Japanese rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel from their album *Seal IV*.
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E.
Phantom Limb
"Phantom Limb" is a song by American rock band Alice in Chains from their 2013 album *The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
paranormal ability
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parapsychological concept ⓘ psychic ability ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
comic books
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films ⓘ role-playing games ⓘ television series ⓘ video games ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
extrasensory perception
ⓘ
occult practices ⓘ psychic powers ⓘ |
| characteristicOf |
fantasy fiction
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paranormal fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ superhero fiction ⓘ |
| consideredBy | mainstream science as pseudoscience ⓘ |
| contradictedBy | current physical theories ⓘ |
| culturalRole |
metaphor for control over environment through willpower
ⓘ
symbol of ultimate mental power ⓘ |
| describedAs | ability to move objects using the mind alone ⓘ |
| evaluationBy | skeptics as result of bias or fraud ⓘ |
| featuredIn | stage magic claims and debunkings ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | psychokinesis ⓘ |
| hasAspect |
macro-psychokinesis
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micro-psychokinesis ⓘ |
| involves |
manipulation of matter without physical contact
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movement of objects at a distance ⓘ use of mental power ⓘ |
| lacks | reliable experimental evidence ⓘ |
| oftenAttributedTo |
gifted individuals
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mutants in fiction ⓘ psychics in fiction ⓘ sorcerers in fiction ⓘ |
| popularIn |
20th-century occult movements
ⓘ
New Age beliefs ⓘ |
| requires |
concentration in fictional depictions
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mental focus in fictional depictions ⓘ |
| sometimesExplainedBy |
mind-matter interaction in parapsychology
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unknown energy fields in pseudoscientific accounts ⓘ |
| studiedIn | parapsychology ⓘ |
| testedBy | controlled laboratory experiments ⓘ |
| typicalAbilitiesInclude |
bending or breaking objects
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controlling the trajectory of projectiles ⓘ levitation of objects ⓘ restraining or pushing people at a distance ⓘ |
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: single "Telekinesis" Description of subject: Telekinesis is the purported psychic ability to move or manipulate objects without physical contact, using only the power of the mind.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.