Richard Wiseman
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Richard Wiseman is a British psychologist, author, and skeptic known for his research on luck, deception, and paranormal claims, as well as for popular science books and media appearances.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Wiseman canonical | 2 |
| Richard John Wiseman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13333444 — 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: Richard Wiseman Context triple: [Society for Psychical Research, hasMember, Richard Wiseman]
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A.
James Randi
James Randi was a Canadian-American stage magician and prominent skeptic best known for debunking paranormal and pseudoscientific claims through rigorous scientific investigation and public challenges.
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B.
Marcus Peter Blakemore
Marcus Peter Blakemore was an American educator and civic leader best known as one of the original founders of the historically Black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi.
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C.
Jeff Sheldrake
Jeff Sheldrake is the manipulative, philandering insurance executive in Billy Wilder’s film "The Apartment," whose exploitation of his employee’s apartment for his affairs drives the story’s central conflict.
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D.
David Myers
David Myers was an American cinematographer known for his work on influential films of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including collaborations with directors like George Lucas.
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E.
Louis Persinger
Louis Persinger was an American violinist, pianist, and renowned pedagogue best known for teaching prodigies such as Yehudi Menuhin.
- 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: Richard Wiseman Target entity description: Richard Wiseman is a British psychologist, author, and skeptic known for his research on luck, deception, and paranormal claims, as well as for popular science books and media appearances.
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A.
James Randi
James Randi was a Canadian-American stage magician and prominent skeptic best known for debunking paranormal and pseudoscientific claims through rigorous scientific investigation and public challenges.
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B.
Marcus Peter Blakemore
Marcus Peter Blakemore was an American educator and civic leader best known as one of the original founders of the historically Black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi.
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C.
Jeff Sheldrake
Jeff Sheldrake is the manipulative, philandering insurance executive in Billy Wilder’s film "The Apartment," whose exploitation of his employee’s apartment for his affairs drives the story’s central conflict.
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D.
David Myers
David Myers was an American cinematographer known for his work on influential films of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including collaborations with directors like George Lucas.
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E.
Louis Persinger
Louis Persinger was an American violinist, pianist, and renowned pedagogue best known for teaching prodigies such as Yehudi Menuhin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ psychologist ⓘ skeptic ⓘ |
| birthName |
Richard John Wiseman
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linked to:
Richard Wiseman
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| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University College London
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University of Edinburgh ⓘ |
| employer | University of Hertfordshire ⓘ |
| familyName | Wiseman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
parapsychology
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psychology ⓘ science communication ⓘ skepticism ⓘ |
| genre |
popular science
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self-help ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
deception detection
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illusion and magic ⓘ paranormal phenomena ⓘ psychology of belief ⓘ psychology of luck ⓘ |
| hasWebsite |
https://richardwiseman.com/
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https://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/ ⓘ |
| hasYouTubeChannel | Quirkology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
media appearances
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popular science books ⓘ research on deception ⓘ research on luck ⓘ research on paranormal claims ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ⓘ |
| name | Richard Wiseman ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableIdea | four principles of lucky people ⓘ |
| notableWork |
59 Seconds
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Paranormality ⓘ Quirkology ⓘ Rip It Up ⓘ The Luck Factor ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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magician ⓘ professor ⓘ psychologist ⓘ science communicator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Luton ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hertfordshire ⓘ |
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: Richard Wiseman Description of subject: Richard Wiseman is a British psychologist, author, and skeptic known for his research on luck, deception, and paranormal claims, as well as for popular science books and media appearances.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Richard Wiseman