Thai New Year Songkran festival

E16347

New Year celebration Songkran ritual Thai festival festival

The Thai New Year Songkran festival is a traditional Thai celebration marked by water splashing, religious merit-making, and family gatherings to welcome the new year in mid-April.

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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
Songkran	6
Thai New Year	3
Songkran Festival	2
Songkran festival	2
Songkran (Lao-Isan style)	1
Songkran celebrations	1
Thai New Year Songkran festival canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T138822 — 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: Thai New Year Songkran festival
Context triple: [Thai Town, associatedWith, Thai New Year Songkran festival]

A. Thailand
Thailand is a Southeast Asian nation known for its rich Buddhist culture, constitutional monarchy, and role as a regional hub for tourism and trade.
B. Bangkok
Bangkok is the vibrant capital and largest city of Thailand, known for its bustling street life, ornate temples, and role as a major economic and cultural hub in Southeast Asia.
C. Emperor’s Birthday
Emperor’s Birthday is a Japanese national holiday celebrating the reigning emperor, marked by public festivities and official ceremonies.
D. Thai Town
Thai Town is a vibrant Los Angeles neighborhood known as the cultural and commercial hub for the Thai-American community, featuring Thai restaurants, markets, and festivals.
E. Medang Kingdom
The Medang Kingdom was an early medieval Javanese Hindu-Buddhist polity in Central and later East Java, known for its temple complexes and role in the development of classical Javanese culture.
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: Thai New Year Songkran festival
Target entity description: The Thai New Year Songkran festival is a traditional Thai celebration marked by water splashing, religious merit-making, and family gatherings to welcome the new year in mid-April.

A. Thailand
Thailand is a Southeast Asian nation known for its rich Buddhist culture, constitutional monarchy, and role as a regional hub for tourism and trade.
B. Bangkok
Bangkok is the vibrant capital and largest city of Thailand, known for its bustling street life, ornate temples, and role as a major economic and cultural hub in Southeast Asia.
C. Emperor’s Birthday
Emperor’s Birthday is a Japanese national holiday celebrating the reigning emperor, marked by public festivities and official ceremonies.
D. Thai Town
Thai Town is a vibrant Los Angeles neighborhood known as the cultural and commercial hub for the Thai-American community, featuring Thai restaurants, markets, and festivals.
E. Medang Kingdom
The Medang Kingdom was an early medieval Javanese Hindu-Buddhist polity in Central and later East Java, known for its temple complexes and role in the development of classical Javanese culture.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	New Year celebration ⓘ Songkran ritual ⓘ Thai festival ⓘ festival ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Songkran festival ⓘ linked to: Thai New Year Songkran festival Thai New Year ⓘ linked to: Thai New Year Songkran festival
associatedWith	heat of the hot season ⓘ water festival ⓘ
basedOnCalendar	solar calendar ⓘ
celebratedIn	Cambodia ⓘ Laos ⓘ Myanmar ⓘ Sri Lanka ⓘ Thailand ⓘ
country	Thailand ⓘ
culturalSignificance	community bonding ⓘ family reunion ⓘ paying respect to elders ⓘ spiritual cleansing ⓘ
hasFood	traditional Thai dishes ⓘ
hasMusic	Thai folk music ⓘ modern pop music ⓘ
hasRitual	Rod Nam Dam Hua ⓘ bathing Buddha statues ⓘ offering alms to monks ⓘ sand pagoda building ⓘ
hasTraditionalDress	colorful floral shirts ⓘ
involves	pouring scented water on elders’ hands ⓘ
mainActivity	bathing Buddha images ⓘ family gatherings ⓘ offering food to monks ⓘ pouring water on elders’ hands ⓘ religious merit-making ⓘ temple visits ⓘ water splashing ⓘ
marks	traditional Thai New Year ⓘ
occursInMonth	April ⓘ
publicHolidayDurationInThailand	3 days ⓘ
publicHolidayIn	Thailand ⓘ
recognizedBy	Thai government ⓘ
religion	Buddhism ⓘ
symbolizes	purification ⓘ renewal ⓘ washing away bad luck ⓘ
tourismAttractionIn	Bangkok ⓘ Chiang Mai ⓘ Pattaya ⓘ Phuket ⓘ
typicalEndDate	April 15 ⓘ
typicalStartDate	April 13 ⓘ

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