Brian Weiss
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Brian Weiss is an American psychiatrist and author best known for popularizing past-life regression therapy through his bestselling books and public lectures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brian Weiss canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3250441 — 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: Brian Weiss Context triple: [Weiss, hasNotableBearer, Brian Weiss]
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A.
Steve Weissman
Steve Weissman is an American political activist and writer best known for his leadership role in the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement.
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B.
Dashiell Weinstein
Dashiell Weinstein is one of the children of disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.
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C.
Chris Lebenzon
Chris Lebenzon is an American film editor known for his long-time collaborations with directors like Tim Burton and Tony Scott on major Hollywood films.
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D.
Daniel Auster
Daniel Auster was a prominent Zionist politician and lawyer who served as mayor of Jerusalem during the British Mandate period.
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E.
Marc Roskin
Marc Roskin is a television producer and director best known for his work on genre and adventure series such as "The Librarians."
- 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: Brian Weiss Target entity description: Brian Weiss is an American psychiatrist and author best known for popularizing past-life regression therapy through his bestselling books and public lectures.
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A.
Steve Weissman
Steve Weissman is an American political activist and writer best known for his leadership role in the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement.
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B.
Dashiell Weinstein
Dashiell Weinstein is one of the children of disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.
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C.
Chris Lebenzon
Chris Lebenzon is an American film editor known for his long-time collaborations with directors like Tim Burton and Tony Scott on major Hollywood films.
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D.
Daniel Auster
Daniel Auster was a prominent Zionist politician and lawyer who served as mayor of Jerusalem during the British Mandate period.
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E.
Marc Roskin
Marc Roskin is a television producer and director best known for his work on genre and adventure series such as "The Librarians."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American psychiatrist
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American writer ⓘ author ⓘ person ⓘ psychiatrist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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Yale School of Medicine ⓘ
surface form:
Yale University School of Medicine
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| employer |
Mount Sinai Health System
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surface form:
Mount Sinai Medical Center
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| familyName | Weiss ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
past-life regression
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psychiatry ⓘ reincarnation studies ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
| genre |
popular psychology
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self-help literature ⓘ spiritual literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Brian ⓘ |
| hasRole |
public speaker
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spiritual teacher ⓘ workshop leader ⓘ |
| hasWrittenOn |
karma
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life after death ⓘ reincarnation ⓘ soulmates ⓘ spiritual healing ⓘ |
| knownFor |
books on reincarnation and past lives
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popularizing past-life regression therapy ⓘ public lectures on past-life regression ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medicalSpecialty |
past-life regression therapy
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psychiatry ⓘ psychopharmacology ⓘ |
| name | Brian Weiss self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
therapeutic value of recalling past lives
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use of hypnosis to access past-life memories ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Many Lives, Many Masters
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Messages from the Masters ⓘ Only Love Is Real ⓘ Same Soul, Many Bodies ⓘ Through Time into Healing ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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professor ⓘ psychiatrist ⓘ |
| placeOfWork |
Miami
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surface form:
Miami, Florida
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| positionHeld | Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical Center ⓘ |
| website | https://www.brianweiss.com/ ⓘ |
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: Brian Weiss Description of subject: Brian Weiss is an American psychiatrist and author best known for popularizing past-life regression therapy through his bestselling books and public lectures.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.