Cheshvan
E14439
Cheshvan is the eighth month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally noted for having no major Jewish holidays.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cheshvan canonical | 6 |
| Marcheshvan | 2 |
| חשוון | 1 |
| מרחשוון | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T113485 — 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: Cheshvan Context triple: [Hebrew calendar, hasMonth, Cheshvan]
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A.
Tishrei
Tishrei is the first month of the Jewish civil year, notable for major holidays such as Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot.
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B.
Elul
Elul is the twelfth month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally observed as a period of spiritual reflection and preparation for the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
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C.
Nisan
Nisan is the first month of the Hebrew religious year, traditionally associated with spring and the festival of Passover.
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D.
Tammuz
Tammuz is the fourth month of the Hebrew religious calendar, traditionally falling in early summer and associated with historical fasts and mourning in Jewish tradition.
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E.
Sivan
Sivan is the third month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally associated with the festival of Shavuot and the giving of the Torah.
- 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: Cheshvan Target entity description: Cheshvan is the eighth month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally noted for having no major Jewish holidays.
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A.
Tishrei
Tishrei is the first month of the Jewish civil year, notable for major holidays such as Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot.
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B.
Elul
Elul is the twelfth month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally observed as a period of spiritual reflection and preparation for the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
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C.
Nisan
Nisan is the first month of the Hebrew religious year, traditionally associated with spring and the festival of Passover.
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D.
Tammuz
Tammuz is the fourth month of the Hebrew religious calendar, traditionally falling in early summer and associated with historical fasts and mourning in Jewish tradition.
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E.
Sivan
Sivan is the third month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally associated with the festival of Shavuot and the giving of the Torah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lunar month
ⓘ
month of the Hebrew calendar ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Marcheshvan
ⓘ
linked to:
Cheshvan
|
| alsoSpelled | Marḥeshvan ⓘ |
| associatedPrayerChange | start of “Veten Tal Umatar” in some rites ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion | Judaism ⓘ |
| calendarSystem | Jewish religious calendar ⓘ |
| calendarType | lunisolar ⓘ |
| containsFastDay | none of the four major public fasts ⓘ |
| containsHighHolyDay | none ⓘ |
| containsPilgrimageFestival | none ⓘ |
| etymologyFrom | Akkadian month name ⓘ |
| follows | Tishrei ⓘ |
| followsMajorHolidays |
Rosh Hashanah
ⓘ
Shemini Atzeret ⓘ Simchat Torah ⓘ
linked to:
Shemini Atzeret
Sukkot ⓘ Yom Kippur ⓘ |
| hasApproximateGregorianCorrespondence |
November
ⓘ
October ⓘ |
| hasCategory | Hebrew calendar months ⓘ |
| hasHebrewName |
חשוון
ⓘ
linked to:
Cheshvan
|
| hasHebrewNameVariant |
מרחשוון
ⓘ
linked to:
Cheshvan
|
| hasLength |
29 days
ⓘ
30 days ⓘ |
| lengthVariesBy | Hebrew leap year rules ⓘ |
| nameOriginRegion |
Babylonia
ⓘ
linked to:
Neo-Babylonian Empire
|
| numericMonthInCivilYear | second month ⓘ |
| numericMonthInReligiousYear | eighth month ⓘ |
| occursIn |
Jewish liturgical year
ⓘ
civil Hebrew year ⓘ |
| positionInHebrewCalendar | eighth month ⓘ |
| precedes | Kislev ⓘ |
| seasonInLandOfIsrael | beginning of the rainy season ⓘ |
| traditionalCharacteristic |
considered a “bitter” month by some traditions
ⓘ
has no major Jewish festivals ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Jewish people
ⓘ
linked to:
Jews
|
| usedIn | Hebrew calendar ⓘ |
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: Cheshvan Description of subject: Cheshvan is the eighth month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally noted for having no major Jewish holidays.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cheshvan
linked to: Cheshvan
linked to: Cheshvan
linked to: Cheshvan