Magic
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Magic is a supernatural force or practice involving the manipulation of unseen powers to produce extraordinary or seemingly impossible effects.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Magic canonical | 2 |
| Marvel Comics magic | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9373621 — 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: Magic Context triple: [Driving Rain, hasPart, Magic]
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A.
Magic
Magic is a 1978 psychological horror film about a troubled ventriloquist whose relationship with his sinister dummy spirals into violence, featuring a celebrated performance by Anthony Hopkins.
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B.
Magic
"Magic" is a 1980 soft rock hit by Olivia Newton-John, best known for its dreamy production and chart-topping success from the soundtrack of the film *Xanadu*.
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C.
Magic
Magic is an American rapper known for his work with No Limit Records in the late 1990s and early 2000s, contributing to the Southern hip hop scene.
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D.
Magic
"Magic" is a jazz composition best known through its recording by the ensemble April in Paris.
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E.
Magic
Magic is a 2008 compilation album by Bruce Springsteen that collects and sequences tracks from his studio album of the same name.
- 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: Magic Target entity description: Magic is a supernatural force or practice involving the manipulation of unseen powers to produce extraordinary or seemingly impossible effects.
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A.
Magic
Magic is a 1978 psychological horror film about a troubled ventriloquist whose relationship with his sinister dummy spirals into violence, featuring a celebrated performance by Anthony Hopkins.
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B.
Magic
Magic is an American rapper known for his work with No Limit Records in the late 1990s and early 2000s, contributing to the Southern hip hop scene.
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C.
Magic
"Magic" is a 1980 soft rock hit by Olivia Newton-John, best known for its dreamy production and chart-topping success from the soundtrack of the film *Xanadu*.
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D.
Magic
"Magic" is a 2014 alternative rock single by British band Coldplay, known for its minimalist production and introspective lyrics about love and loss.
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E.
Magic
"Magic" is a 2022 hip-hop single by Vince Staples featuring Mustard, known for its smooth, laid-back production and reflective lyrics about success and street life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (107)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Concept
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Occult practice ⓘ Supernatural practice ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
Affect people
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Influence events ⓘ Manipulate unseen forces ⓘ Produce extraordinary effects ⓘ Produce seemingly impossible effects ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Fairy tales
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Fantasy literature ⓘ Films and television ⓘ Legends ⓘ Myths ⓘ Role-playing games ⓘ Video games ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Religion
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Science ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom | Stage magic as entertainment ⓘ |
| hasAspect |
Belief system
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Divination ⓘ Esoteric knowledge ⓘ Invocation of spirits or deities ⓘ Ritual practice ⓘ Spellcasting ⓘ Supernatural force ⓘ Symbolic manipulation ⓘ Use of charms and amulets ⓘ Use of correspondences and symbolism ⓘ Use of incantations ⓘ Use of ritual tools ⓘ |
| hasBelief |
Hidden correspondences exist between things
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Ritual actions can cause supernatural effects ⓘ Spirits or deities can be invoked or compelled ⓘ Symbols can affect reality ⓘ Words and names have power ⓘ |
| hasDefinition | Supernatural force or practice involving the manipulation of unseen powers to produce extraordinary or seemingly impossible effects ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalPresenceIn |
Ancient Egypt
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linked to:
Pharaonic Egypt
Ancient Greece ⓘ
linked to:
Greek Antiquity
Ancient Mesopotamia ⓘ
linked to:
Mesopotamia
Ancient Rome ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Antiquity
Indigenous cultures worldwide ⓘ Medieval Europe ⓘ
linked to:
Middle Ages
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| hasInterpretation |
Cultural system of meaning and power
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Supernatural explanation of causality ⓘ Symbolic or psychological practice ⓘ |
| hasType |
Apotropaic magic
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Astrological magic ⓘ Black magic ⓘ Ceremonial magic ⓘ Chaos magic ⓘ Contagious magic ⓘ Cursing and hexing ⓘ Divinatory magic ⓘ Enchantment ⓘ Folk magic ⓘ Goetic magic ⓘ Gray magic ⓘ Healing magic ⓘ High magic ⓘ Love magic ⓘ Low magic ⓘ Natural magic ⓘ Necromancy ⓘ Protective magic ⓘ Ritual magic ⓘ Shamanic magic ⓘ Sorcery ⓘ Stage magic (illusionism) ⓘ Sympathetic magic ⓘ Theurgic magic ⓘ Weather magic ⓘ White magic ⓘ Witchcraft ⓘ |
| practicedBy |
Magicians
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Occultists ⓘ Ritual specialists ⓘ Shamans ⓘ Sorcerers ⓘ Witches ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Alchemy
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Astrology ⓘ Divination ⓘ Esotericism ⓘ Hermeticism ⓘ Mysticism ⓘ Mythology ⓘ New Age practices ⓘ Occultism ⓘ
linked to:
Chaos magic
Paganism ⓘ
linked to:
Neopaganism
Ritual ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
Anthropology
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Folklore studies ⓘ History of religions ⓘ Psychology of religion ⓘ Religious studies ⓘ Sociology ⓘ |
| uses |
Altars
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Amulets ⓘ Candles ⓘ Crystals ⓘ Divination tools ⓘ Herbs ⓘ Incantations ⓘ Rituals ⓘ Sigils ⓘ Spells ⓘ Talismans ⓘ |
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: Magic Description of subject: Magic is a supernatural force or practice involving the manipulation of unseen powers to produce extraordinary or seemingly impossible effects.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Magic