Adar
E16137
Adar is the twelfth month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally associated with the festival of Purim and themes of joy and celebration.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adar canonical | 5 |
| Adar (in common years) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T113489 — 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: Adar Context triple: [Hebrew calendar, hasMonth, Adar]
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A.
Sivan
Sivan is the third month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally associated with the festival of Shavuot and the giving of the Torah.
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B.
Nisan
Nisan is the first month of the Hebrew religious year, traditionally associated with spring and the festival of Passover.
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C.
Tevet
Tevet is a winter month in the Hebrew calendar, typically falling in December–January and associated with several Jewish fasts and historical commemorations.
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D.
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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E.
Kislev
Kislev is a late autumn/early winter month in the Hebrew calendar traditionally associated with the festival of Hanukkah.
- 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: Adar Target entity description: Adar is the twelfth month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally associated with the festival of Purim and themes of joy and celebration.
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A.
Sivan
Sivan is the third month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally associated with the festival of Shavuot and the giving of the Torah.
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B.
Nisan
Nisan is the first month of the Hebrew religious year, traditionally associated with spring and the festival of Passover.
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C.
Tevet
Tevet is a winter month in the Hebrew calendar, typically falling in December–January and associated with several Jewish fasts and historical commemorations.
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D.
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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E.
Kislev
Kislev is a late autumn/early winter month in the Hebrew calendar traditionally associated with the festival of Hanukkah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lunar month
ⓘ
month of the Hebrew calendar ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Purim
ⓘ
celebration ⓘ joy ⓘ |
| associatedWithTribe | Tribe of Naftali (in some traditions) ⓘ |
| calendarSystem | Hebrew calendar ⓘ |
| containsFastDay | Fast of Esther ⓘ |
| containsFestival | Purim ⓘ |
| containsSpecialSabbath | Shabbat Zachor ⓘ |
| follows | Shevat ⓘ |
| halachicStatusInLeapYear | Purim observed in Adar II ⓘ |
| hasLeapYearVariant |
Adar I
ⓘ
Adar II ⓘ
linked to:
Adar I
|
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| liturgicalTheme | increased joy ⓘ |
| nameOrigin | Akkadian ⓘ |
| numericValueInLeapYear | 12 or 13 depending on Adar I/II ⓘ |
| occursInGregorian |
February
ⓘ
March ⓘ |
| occursInSeason | late winter ⓘ |
| positionInHebrewCalendar | 12 ⓘ |
| precedes | Nisan ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Judaism ⓘ |
| themeInRabbinicLiterature | “When Adar enters, joy increases” ⓘ |
| typeOfCalendarMonth | lunisolar month ⓘ |
| typicalLengthDays | 29 ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Jewish civil calendar
ⓘ
Jewish religious calendar ⓘ
linked to:
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: Adar Description of subject: Adar is the twelfth month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally associated with the festival of Purim and themes of joy and celebration.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Adar