Onam
E163611
Onam is a major annual harvest and cultural festival of Kerala, celebrated with elaborate feasts, traditional dances, boat races, and floral decorations.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Onam canonical | 26 |
| Onam festival | 2 |
| Onam celebrations | 1 |
| Onam season | 1 |
| Vishu | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1409620 — 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: Onam Context triple: [South India, hasCulturalFestival, Onam]
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A.
Kaanum Pongal
Kaanum Pongal is the fourth and final day of the Tamil harvest festival Pongal, marked by family outings, social visits, and thanksgiving for prosperity.
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B.
Thrissur Pooram
Thrissur Pooram is a grand annual Hindu temple festival in Kerala renowned for its spectacular elephant processions, traditional percussion ensembles, and elaborate fireworks.
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C.
Bhogi
Bhogi is the first day of the multi-day harvest festival around Makar Sankranti in South India, marked by discarding old possessions, lighting bonfires, and celebrating new beginnings.
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D.
Bihu
Bihu is a major Assamese festival in India that marks seasonal changes and the agrarian New Year with music, dance, and community celebrations.
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E.
Diwali
Diwali is a major Hindu festival of lights celebrating the victory of good over evil and light over darkness, marked by prayers, feasts, and fireworks.
- 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: Onam Target entity description: Onam is a major annual harvest and cultural festival of Kerala, celebrated with elaborate feasts, traditional dances, boat races, and floral decorations.
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A.
Kaanum Pongal
Kaanum Pongal is the fourth and final day of the Tamil harvest festival Pongal, marked by family outings, social visits, and thanksgiving for prosperity.
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B.
Thrissur Pooram
Thrissur Pooram is a grand annual Hindu temple festival in Kerala renowned for its spectacular elephant processions, traditional percussion ensembles, and elaborate fireworks.
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C.
Bhogi
Bhogi is the first day of the multi-day harvest festival around Makar Sankranti in South India, marked by discarding old possessions, lighting bonfires, and celebrating new beginnings.
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D.
Bihu
Bihu is a major Assamese festival in India that marks seasonal changes and the agrarian New Year with music, dance, and community celebrations.
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E.
Diwali
Diwali is a major Hindu festival of lights celebrating the victory of good over evil and light over darkness, marked by prayers, feasts, and fireworks.
- 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: Onam Description of subject: Onam is a major annual harvest and cultural festival of Kerala, celebrated with elaborate feasts, traditional dances, boat races, and floral decorations.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Onam
linked to: Onam
linked to: Onam