Nisan
E11370
Nisan is the first month of the Hebrew religious year, traditionally associated with spring and the festival of Passover.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T113478 — 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: Nisan Context triple: [Hebrew calendar, hasMonth, Nisan]
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A.
Shavuot
Shavuot is a major Jewish festival that commemorates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai and marks the wheat harvest in Israel.
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B.
Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year festival, marking the beginning of the High Holy Days with prayer, reflection, and the sounding of the shofar.
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C.
April
April is a spring month in the Gregorian calendar often associated with mild weather and the blooming of many flowers.
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D.
Sukkot
Sukkot is a week-long Jewish harvest festival and pilgrimage holiday commemorating the Israelites’ dwelling in temporary shelters after the Exodus from Egypt.
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E.
Purim
Purim is a joyous Jewish holiday commemorating the salvation of the Jews in ancient Persia as recounted in the biblical Book of Esther, celebrated with feasting, costumes, charity, and the reading of the Megillah.
- 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: Nisan Target entity description: Nisan is the first month of the Hebrew religious year, traditionally associated with spring and the festival of Passover.
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A.
Shavuot
Shavuot is a major Jewish festival that commemorates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai and marks the wheat harvest in Israel.
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B.
Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year festival, marking the beginning of the High Holy Days with prayer, reflection, and the sounding of the shofar.
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C.
April
April is a spring month in the Gregorian calendar often associated with mild weather and the blooming of many flowers.
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D.
Sukkot
Sukkot is a week-long Jewish harvest festival and pilgrimage holiday commemorating the Israelites’ dwelling in temporary shelters after the Exodus from Egypt.
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E.
Purim
Purim is a joyous Jewish holiday commemorating the salvation of the Jews in ancient Persia as recounted in the biblical Book of Esther, celebrated with feasting, costumes, charity, and the reading of the Megillah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Nisan Description of subject: Nisan is the first month of the Hebrew religious year, traditionally associated with spring and the festival of Passover.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nisan
linked to: Nisan
linked to: Nisan