CSI
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CSI (the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting scientific skepticism and critical investigation of controversial or extraordinary claims.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CSI canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1796558 — 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: CSI Context triple: [Philip J. Klass Award, presentedBy, CSI]
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A.
CSI
CSI is a post-nominal title indicating a Companion of the Order of the Star of India, a chivalric order of British India.
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B.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a popular American procedural drama series that follows forensic investigators as they use scientific techniques to solve crimes.
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C.
CSI: NY
CSI: NY is an American police procedural television series that follows a team of forensic investigators solving crimes in New York City as part of the CSI franchise.
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D.
CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series that follows a team of forensic investigators solving crimes in Miami using advanced scientific techniques.
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E.
NCIS
NCIS is a long-running American television crime drama series that follows a team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service as they solve cases involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
- 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: CSI Target entity description: CSI (the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting scientific skepticism and critical investigation of controversial or extraordinary claims.
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A.
CSI
CSI is a post-nominal title indicating a Companion of the Order of the Star of India, a chivalric order of British India.
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B.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a popular American procedural drama series that follows forensic investigators as they use scientific techniques to solve crimes.
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C.
CSI: NY
CSI: NY is an American police procedural television series that follows a team of forensic investigators solving crimes in New York City as part of the CSI franchise.
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D.
CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series that follows a team of forensic investigators solving crimes in Miami using advanced scientific techniques.
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E.
NCIS
NCIS is a long-running American television crime drama series that follows a team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service as they solve cases involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
learned society
ⓘ
magazine ⓘ nonprofit organization ⓘ skeptical organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CSI self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fieldOfWork |
critical thinking
ⓘ
investigation of pseudoscience ⓘ investigation of the paranormal ⓘ science education ⓘ scientific skepticism ⓘ |
| formerAbbreviation |
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
ⓘ
surface form:
CSICOP
|
| formerName | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Paul Kurtz ⓘ |
| foundingLocation |
Buffalo
ⓘ
surface form:
Buffalo, New York
|
| foundingYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson |
William Sanford Nye
ⓘ
surface form:
Bill Nye
Carl Sagan ⓘ Harriet Hall ⓘ James Randi ⓘ Joe Nickell ⓘ Kendrick Frazier ⓘ Lawrence M. Krauss ⓘ
surface form:
Lawrence Krauss
Martin Gardner ⓘ Massimo Polidoro ⓘ Neil deGrasse Tyson ⓘ Paul Kurtz ⓘ Ray Hyman ⓘ Richard Dawkins ⓘ Steven Novella ⓘ Susan Blackmore ⓘ |
| hasMotto | Promoting scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Amherst, New York ⓘ |
| legalForm | nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| notablePublication | Skeptical Inquirer ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Center for Inquiry ⓘ |
| publisher |
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
ⓘ
surface form:
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
|
| purpose |
critical investigation of controversial claims
ⓘ
critical investigation of extraordinary claims ⓘ promotion of scientific skepticism ⓘ public education about science ⓘ |
| standsFor |
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
ⓘ
surface form:
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
|
| topicOf |
investigation of UFO claims
ⓘ
investigation of alternative medicine ⓘ investigation of astrology ⓘ investigation of creationism ⓘ investigation of faith healing ⓘ investigation of homeopathy ⓘ investigation of psychic phenomena ⓘ |
| website | https://centerforinquiry.org/csi/ ⓘ |
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: CSI Description of subject: CSI (the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting scientific skepticism and critical investigation of controversial or extraordinary claims.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry