Charles F. Haanel
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Charles F. Haanel was an early 20th-century American author and businessman best known for his influential New Thought self-help book "The Master Key System," which helped popularize ideas about the power of thought and the law of attraction.
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| Charles F. Haanel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5292032 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles F. Haanel Context triple: [Rhonda Byrne, influencedBy, Charles F. Haanel]
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Wallace D. Wattles
Wallace D. Wattles was an early 20th-century American New Thought writer best known for his book "The Science of Getting Rich," which has significantly influenced modern self-help and prosperity literature.
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B.
Carl Eckart
Carl Eckart was an American physicist and applied mathematician known for his contributions to quantum mechanics, fluid dynamics, and the development of the Wigner–Eckart theorem.
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C.
Charles Gabriel Seligman
Charles Gabriel Seligman was a British physician-turned-anthropologist known for his influential early fieldwork in Africa and the Pacific and for helping establish social anthropology as an academic discipline in the early 20th century.
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D.
Walter Hubbard
Walter Hubbard was a prominent local figure and benefactor after whom Hubbard Park was named, likely due to his significant contributions to the surrounding community.
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E.
George Engel
George Engel was a German-American labor activist and anarchist who was executed following the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
- 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: Charles F. Haanel Target entity description: Charles F. Haanel was an early 20th-century American author and businessman best known for his influential New Thought self-help book "The Master Key System," which helped popularize ideas about the power of thought and the law of attraction.
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A.
Wallace D. Wattles
Wallace D. Wattles was an early 20th-century American New Thought writer best known for his book "The Science of Getting Rich," which has significantly influenced modern self-help and prosperity literature.
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B.
Carl Eckart
Carl Eckart was an American physicist and applied mathematician known for his contributions to quantum mechanics, fluid dynamics, and the development of the Wigner–Eckart theorem.
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C.
Charles Gabriel Seligman
Charles Gabriel Seligman was a British physician-turned-anthropologist known for his influential early fieldwork in Africa and the Pacific and for helping establish social anthropology as an academic discipline in the early 20th century.
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D.
Walter Hubbard
Walter Hubbard was a prominent local figure and benefactor after whom Hubbard Park was named, likely due to his significant contributions to the surrounding community.
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E.
George Engel
George Engel was a German-American labor activist and anarchist who was executed following the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Thought writer
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businessman ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1866-05-22 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1949-11-27 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | St. Louis, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Continental Commercial Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | German descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Haanel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
applied psychology
ⓘ
personal success ⓘ self-improvement ⓘ |
| fullName | Charles Francis Haanel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
metaphysical literature
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personal development ⓘ self-help ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
creative visualization
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law of attraction NERFINISHED ⓘ power of thought ⓘ |
| influenced |
law of attraction movement
NERFINISHED
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self-help literature ⓘ |
| influencedBy | New Thought movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | The Master Key System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | New Thought NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Book About You
NERFINISHED
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Mental Chemistry NERFINISHED ⓘ The Master Key System NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Psychology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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businessman ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| religiousOrPhilosophicalTradition | New Thought NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | St. Louis, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | biographical articles ⓘ |
| wrote |
A Book About You
NERFINISHED
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Mental Chemistry NERFINISHED ⓘ The Master Key System NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Psychology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Charles F. Haanel Description of subject: Charles F. Haanel was an early 20th-century American author and businessman best known for his influential New Thought self-help book "The Master Key System," which helped popularize ideas about the power of thought and the law of attraction.
Referenced by (1)
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