Maurice Alfassa
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Maurice Alfassa was a Turkish Jewish banker and businessman, best known as the father of Mirra Alfassa, who later became known as "The Mother" in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
All labels observed (1)
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| Maurice Alfassa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17958539 — 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: Maurice Alfassa Context triple: [The Mother, father, Maurice Alfassa]
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A.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was a 19th-century Russian occultist, author, and spiritual teacher who co-founded the Theosophical Society and became a central figure in modern esotericism and Western mysticism.
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B.
Nikolai Blavatsky
Nikolai Blavatsky was the brief husband of Russian occultist and Theosophical Society co-founder Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, about whom relatively little is historically documented compared to his famous spouse.
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C.
Ernest Holmes
Ernest Holmes was an American spiritual writer and founder of the Religious Science movement, whose teachings helped shape the modern New Thought spiritual philosophy.
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D.
Allan Kardec
Allan Kardec was a 19th-century French educator and writer best known as the codifier and principal theorist of Spiritism, a religious-philosophical doctrine based on communication with spirits.
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E.
Victor Houteff
Victor Houteff was a Bulgarian-American religious reformer who founded the Davidian movement that later gave rise to the Branch Davidians.
- 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: Maurice Alfassa Target entity description: Maurice Alfassa was a Turkish Jewish banker and businessman, best known as the father of Mirra Alfassa, who later became known as "The Mother" in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
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A.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was a 19th-century Russian occultist, author, and spiritual teacher who co-founded the Theosophical Society and became a central figure in modern esotericism and Western mysticism.
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B.
Nikolai Blavatsky
Nikolai Blavatsky was the brief husband of Russian occultist and Theosophical Society co-founder Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, about whom relatively little is historically documented compared to his famous spouse.
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C.
Ernest Holmes
Ernest Holmes was an American spiritual writer and founder of the Religious Science movement, whose teachings helped shape the modern New Thought spiritual philosophy.
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D.
Allan Kardec
Allan Kardec was a 19th-century French educator and writer best known as the codifier and principal theorist of Spiritism, a religious-philosophical doctrine based on communication with spirits.
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E.
Victor Houteff
Victor Houteff was a Bulgarian-American religious reformer who founded the Davidian movement that later gave rise to the Branch Davidians.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.