The Skeptics Society
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The Skeptics Society is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to promoting scientific skepticism, critical thinking, and the investigation of extraordinary claims.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Skeptics Society canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1796484 — 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: The Skeptics Society Context triple: [Michael Shermer, memberOf, The Skeptics Society]
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A.
Skeptical Inquirer
Skeptical Inquirer is a magazine devoted to promoting scientific skepticism and critical examination of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
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B.
Center for Inquiry
The Center for Inquiry is a nonprofit organization that promotes secularism, scientific skepticism, and critical thinking through education, advocacy, and research.
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C.
James Randi Educational Foundation
The James Randi Educational Foundation was a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting critical thinking and scientific skepticism, best known for its public challenges to paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
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D.
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal was an organization of scientists, scholars, and skeptics dedicated to critically examining paranormal and pseudoscientific claims using scientific methods.
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E.
Mont Pelerin Society
The Mont Pelerin Society is an international organization of classical liberal and free-market economists, intellectuals, and policymakers dedicated to promoting individual liberty, limited government, and economic freedom.
- 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: The Skeptics Society Target entity description: The Skeptics Society is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to promoting scientific skepticism, critical thinking, and the investigation of extraordinary claims.
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A.
Skeptical Inquirer
Skeptical Inquirer is a magazine devoted to promoting scientific skepticism and critical examination of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
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B.
Center for Inquiry
The Center for Inquiry is a nonprofit organization that promotes secularism, scientific skepticism, and critical thinking through education, advocacy, and research.
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C.
James Randi Educational Foundation
The James Randi Educational Foundation was a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting critical thinking and scientific skepticism, best known for its public challenges to paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
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D.
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal was an organization of scientists, scholars, and skeptics dedicated to critically examining paranormal and pseudoscientific claims using scientific methods.
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E.
Mont Pelerin Society
The Mont Pelerin Society is an international organization of classical liberal and free-market economists, intellectuals, and policymakers dedicated to promoting individual liberty, limited government, and economic freedom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational organization
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nonprofit organization ⓘ skeptical organization ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| employsMethod |
evidence-based investigation
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scientific method ⓘ |
| field |
public understanding of science
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science communication ⓘ skeptical movement ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
cognitive biases
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conspiracy theories ⓘ critical thinking ⓘ evolution and creationism ⓘ fringe science ⓘ investigation of extraordinary claims ⓘ paranormal claims ⓘ pseudoscience ⓘ religion and science ⓘ science education ⓘ scientific skepticism ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Michael Shermer ⓘ |
| foundedInPeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
digital content
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live events ⓘ print magazine ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
conferences
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educational outreach ⓘ online articles ⓘ podcasts ⓘ public lectures ⓘ |
| hasPublication | Skeptic magazine ⓘ |
| ideology | scientific skepticism ⓘ |
| keyPerson | Michael Shermer ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leader | Michael Shermer ⓘ |
| mission |
to investigate extraordinary claims
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to promote critical thinking ⓘ to promote scientific skepticism ⓘ to provide science education to the public ⓘ |
| nonprofitStatus | 501(c)(3) ⓘ |
| partOf | scientific skepticism movement ⓘ |
| publisherOf | Skeptic magazine ⓘ |
| topicOf |
debates on pseudoscience
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debates on science and religion ⓘ |
| website |
Skeptic magazine
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surface form:
https://www.skeptic.com/
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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: The Skeptics Society Description of subject: The Skeptics Society is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to promoting scientific skepticism, critical thinking, and the investigation of extraordinary claims.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.