Anton LaVey
E150887
Anton LaVey was an American occultist, author, and musician best known as the founder of the Church of Satan and the author of The Satanic Bible.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anton LaVey canonical | 3 |
| Anton Szandor LaVey | 2 |
| High Priest of the Church of Satan | 1 |
| Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1321513 — 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.
Target entity: Anton LaVey Context triple: [Anton, hasNotableBearer, Anton LaVey]
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A.
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer who founded the religion of Thelema and became one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern Western esotericism.
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B.
Eliphas Levi
Eliphas Levi was a 19th-century French occultist and writer whose works profoundly shaped modern Western esotericism and ceremonial magic.
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C.
Israel Regardie
Israel Regardie was a British occultist, writer, and ceremonial magician best known for preserving and publishing the teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and popularizing modern Hermetic Qabalah.
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D.
Henry Corbin
Henry Corbin was a 20th-century French philosopher and Islamic scholar best known for his pioneering studies of Iranian Shi'ism and Sufi mysticism, particularly through his interpretations of visionary and esoteric traditions.
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E.
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers was a British occultist and co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, influential in the development of modern Western esotericism and ceremonial magic.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Anton LaVey Target entity description: Anton LaVey was an American occultist, author, and musician best known as the founder of the Church of Satan and the author of The Satanic Bible.
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A.
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer who founded the religion of Thelema and became one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern Western esotericism.
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B.
Eliphas Levi
Eliphas Levi was a 19th-century French occultist and writer whose works profoundly shaped modern Western esotericism and ceremonial magic.
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C.
Israel Regardie
Israel Regardie was a British occultist, writer, and ceremonial magician best known for preserving and publishing the teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and popularizing modern Hermetic Qabalah.
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D.
Henry Corbin
Henry Corbin was a 20th-century French philosopher and Islamic scholar best known for his pioneering studies of Iranian Shi'ism and Sufi mysticism, particularly through his interpretations of visionary and esoteric traditions.
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E.
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers was a British occultist and co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, influential in the development of modern Western esotericism and ceremonial magic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ occultist ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Anton LaVey
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surface form:
Anton Szandor LaVey
|
| burialPlace | ashes scattered (private location) ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pulmonary edema ⓘ |
| child |
Karla LaVey
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Anton LaVey self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey
Zeena Schreck ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1930-04-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1997-10-29 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Jewish descent ⓘ |
| familyName |
Levy
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surface form:
Levey
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| founded |
LaVeyan Satanism
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surface form:
Church of Satan
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| fullName | Howard Stanton Levey ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
dark ambient
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occult music ⓘ |
| givenName | Howard ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary occult subculture
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modern Satanism ⓘ |
| instrument |
calliope
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organ ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | LaVeyan Satanism ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
atheistic Satanism
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indulgence over abstinence ⓘ self-deification ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Satan Speaks!
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The Devil's Notebook ⓘ The Satanic Bible ⓘ The Satanic Rituals ⓘ The Satanic Witch ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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occultist ⓘ organist ⓘ religious leader ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| partner | Blanche Barton ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
San Francisco, California, United States of America
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surface form:
San Francisco, California, United States
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| positionHeld |
Anton LaVey
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
High Priest of the Church of Satan
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| pseudonym |
Anton LaVey
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Anton LaVey ⓘ
surface form:
Anton Szandor LaVey
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| religionFounded | LaVeyan Satanism ⓘ |
| residence |
San Francisco, California, United States of America
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surface form:
San Francisco, California, United States
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| spouse |
Carole Lansing
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Diane Hegarty ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Anton LaVey Description of subject: Anton LaVey was an American occultist, author, and musician best known as the founder of the Church of Satan and the author of The Satanic Bible.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.