National Capital Area Skeptics
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National Capital Area Skeptics is a nonprofit educational organization based in the Washington, D.C. region that promotes critical thinking, scientific skepticism, and the investigation of extraordinary claims.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| National Capital Area Skeptics canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9118895 — 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: National Capital Area Skeptics Context triple: [National Capital Area Skeptics Award, presentedBy, National Capital Area Skeptics]
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A.
The Skeptics Society
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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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.
Skeptic magazine
Skeptic magazine is a publication devoted to scientific skepticism, critical thinking, and the investigation of controversial and pseudoscientific claims.
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E.
Skeptical Inquirer
Skeptical Inquirer is a magazine devoted to promoting scientific skepticism and critical examination of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
- 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: National Capital Area Skeptics Target entity description: National Capital Area Skeptics is a nonprofit educational organization based in the Washington, D.C. region that promotes critical thinking, scientific skepticism, and the investigation of extraordinary claims.
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A.
The Skeptics Society
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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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.
Skeptic magazine
Skeptic magazine is a publication devoted to scientific skepticism, critical thinking, and the investigation of controversial and pseudoscientific claims.
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E.
Skeptical Inquirer
Skeptical Inquirer is a magazine devoted to promoting scientific skepticism and critical examination of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational organization
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nonprofit organization ⓘ regional skeptics group ⓘ skeptical organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | NCAS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| activity |
educational programs
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investigation of paranormal claims ⓘ promotion of evidence-based reasoning ⓘ public lectures ⓘ |
| basedIn | Washington, D.C. metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| field |
public education
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science education ⓘ scientific skepticism ⓘ |
| focus |
extraordinary claims
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paranormal claims ⓘ pseudoscience ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience |
general public
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residents of the Washington, D.C. area ⓘ |
| ideology | scientific skepticism ⓘ |
| legalForm | nonprofit organization in the United States ⓘ |
| method |
critical inquiry
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public outreach ⓘ scientific investigation ⓘ |
| name | National Capital Area Skeptics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nonprofitStatus | nonprofit ⓘ |
| purpose |
investigation of extraordinary claims
ⓘ
promotion of critical thinking ⓘ promotion of scientific skepticism ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Maryland
NERFINISHED
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Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington, D.C. region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sector | nonprofit sector ⓘ |
| topic |
evaluation of extraordinary claims
ⓘ
science and critical thinking ⓘ |
| typeOfNonprofit | educational nonprofit ⓘ |
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: National Capital Area Skeptics Description of subject: National Capital Area Skeptics is a nonprofit educational organization based in the Washington, D.C. region that promotes critical thinking, scientific skepticism, and the investigation of extraordinary claims.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.