Shan New Year
E1002415
Shan New Year is a major cultural and religious festival of the Tai Yai (Shan) people, marked by communal prayers, traditional dances, music, and offerings to welcome the new year.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shan New Year canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12749257 — 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: Shan New Year Context triple: [Tai Yai, traditionalFestival, Shan New Year]
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A.
Qiang New Year
Qiang New Year is a traditional ethnic festival of the Qiang people in China, marked by ancestral worship, folk performances, and communal celebrations to welcome the new year.
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B.
Spring Festival
The Spring Festival is the most important traditional Chinese New Year celebration, marked by family reunions, festive meals, cultural rituals, and the welcoming of the lunar new year.
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C.
Miao New Year
Miao New Year is a major traditional festival of the Miao people, marked by ancestral worship, singing, dancing, bullfighting, and other communal celebrations that usher in the new year according to the Miao calendar.
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D.
Kuoshi Festival
The Kuoshi Festival is a major traditional celebration of the Lisu people, marked by communal singing, dancing, and rituals that express gratitude for harvests and ancestral blessings.
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E.
Sanyuesan Festival
The Sanyuesan Festival is a major spring celebration of the Zhuang people in China, featuring singing competitions, folk performances, and rituals to pray for good harvests and prosperity.
- 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: Shan New Year Target entity description: Shan New Year is a major cultural and religious festival of the Tai Yai (Shan) people, marked by communal prayers, traditional dances, music, and offerings to welcome the new year.
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A.
Qiang New Year
Qiang New Year is a traditional ethnic festival of the Qiang people in China, marked by ancestral worship, folk performances, and communal celebrations to welcome the new year.
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B.
Spring Festival
The Spring Festival is the most important traditional Chinese New Year celebration, marked by family reunions, festive meals, cultural rituals, and the welcoming of the lunar new year.
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C.
Miao New Year
Miao New Year is a major traditional festival of the Miao people, marked by ancestral worship, singing, dancing, bullfighting, and other communal celebrations that usher in the new year according to the Miao calendar.
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D.
Kuoshi Festival
The Kuoshi Festival is a major traditional celebration of the Lisu people, marked by communal singing, dancing, and rituals that express gratitude for harvests and ancestral blessings.
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E.
Sanyuesan Festival
The Sanyuesan Festival is a major spring celebration of the Zhuang people in China, featuring singing competitions, folk performances, and rituals to pray for good harvests and prosperity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Year festival
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cultural festival ⓘ festival ⓘ religious festival ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Buddhist temples
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Shan monasteries ⓘ offerings to monks ⓘ prayers for good health ⓘ prayers for peace ⓘ prayers for prosperity ⓘ |
| calendar | traditional Shan lunar calendar ⓘ |
| celebratedBy |
Shan people
ⓘ
Tai Yai people ⓘ
linked to:
Tai Nüa people
|
| country | Myanmar ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
expression of Shan identity
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major festival for Shan people ⓘ |
| culture | Shan culture ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Shan
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Tai Yai ⓘ |
| features |
Shan decorative arts
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Shan traditional costumes ⓘ Shan traditional cuisine ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
communal prayers
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community feasts ⓘ family gatherings ⓘ folk songs ⓘ lighting candles and lanterns ⓘ merit-making ⓘ offerings ⓘ processions ⓘ traditional dances ⓘ traditional drum performances ⓘ traditional music ⓘ visiting temples ⓘ |
| purpose |
expressing gratitude
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seeking blessings ⓘ strengthening community bonds ⓘ welcoming the new year ⓘ |
| region | Shan State ⓘ |
| religion |
Theravada Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Theravada
|
| religiousAspect | Buddhist practices ⓘ |
| religiousSignificance | occasion for Buddhist merit-making ⓘ |
| socialRole |
community cohesion
ⓘ
intergenerational cultural transmission ⓘ |
| timeOfYear | late year period ⓘ |
| typeOfDance | Shan traditional dance ⓘ |
| typeOfMusic | Shan traditional music ⓘ |
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: Shan New Year Description of subject: Shan New Year is a major cultural and religious festival of the Tai Yai (Shan) people, marked by communal prayers, traditional dances, music, and offerings to welcome the new year.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.