Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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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.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Helena Petrovna Blavatsky canonical | 15 |
| Blavatsky | 1 |
| Helena Blavatsky | 1 |
| Madame Blavatsky | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3494119 — 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: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Context triple: [Theosophy, foundedBy, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]
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A.
Norma Besant
Norma Besant is the flirtatious Southern belle protagonist of the 1929 pre-Code drama film "Coquette," portrayed by Mary Pickford in her first talking role.
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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.
Dion Fortune
Dion Fortune was a British occultist, author, and ceremonial magician known for her influential writings on Western esotericism, psychic self-defense, and the modern revival of mystical Qabalah.
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D.
Frank Besant
Frank Besant was the clergyman husband of British social reformer and theosophist Annie Besant, from whom she later separated.
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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.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Target entity description: 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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A.
Norma Besant
Norma Besant is the flirtatious Southern belle protagonist of the 1929 pre-Code drama film "Coquette," portrayed by Mary Pickford in her first talking role.
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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.
Dion Fortune
Dion Fortune was a British occultist, author, and ceremonial magician known for her influential writings on Western esotericism, psychic self-defense, and the modern revival of mystical Qabalah.
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D.
Frank Besant
Frank Besant was the clergyman husband of British social reformer and theosophist Annie Besant, from whom she later separated.
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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 (62)
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: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Madame Blavatsky
this entity surface form:
Helena Blavatsky
this entity surface form:
Blavatsky