Adar I
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Adar I is the leap-year intercalary month added to the Hebrew calendar before the regular month of Adar.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adar II | 6 |
| Adar I canonical | 5 |
| Adar Aleph | 1 |
| Adar Rishon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T113490 — 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 I Context triple: [Hebrew calendar, hasMonth, Adar I]
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A.
Adar
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Nisan
Nisan is the first month of the Hebrew religious year, traditionally associated with spring and the festival of Passover.
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E.
Tevet
Tevet is a winter month in the Hebrew calendar, typically falling in December–January and associated with several Jewish fasts and historical commemorations.
- 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 I Target entity description: Adar I is the leap-year intercalary month added to the Hebrew calendar before the regular month of Adar.
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A.
Adar
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Nisan
Nisan is the first month of the Hebrew religious year, traditionally associated with spring and the festival of Passover.
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E.
Tevet
Tevet is a winter month in the Hebrew calendar, typically falling in December–January and associated with several Jewish fasts and historical commemorations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew calendar month
ⓘ
intercalary month ⓘ leap month ⓘ |
| addedBefore | Adar ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Adar Aleph
ⓘ
linked to:
Adar I
Adar Rishon ⓘ
linked to:
Adar I
First Adar ⓘ |
| associatedWithHoliday | Purim Katan ⓘ |
| calendarFunction | intercalation to align lunar months with solar year ⓘ |
| calendarType | religious year numbering ⓘ |
| containsFast | Ta’anit Esther in some traditions ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Adar (in common years)
ⓘ
linked to:
Adar
Adar II ⓘ |
| follows |
Shevat
ⓘ
linked to:
Tevet
|
| halachicNote | major Purim is observed in Adar II, not Adar I ⓘ |
| hasApproximateGregorianOccurrence | February–March ⓘ |
| hasLength | 30 days ⓘ |
| hasNumericDesignation | month 12 in leap years ⓘ |
| holidayStatus | regular month for most religious observances ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| occursFrequency | 7 times in every 19-year Metonic cycle ⓘ |
| occursIn | Hebrew leap year ⓘ |
| occursInYearsOfCycle |
11th year of 19-year cycle
ⓘ
14th year of 19-year cycle ⓘ 17th year of 19-year cycle ⓘ 19th year of 19-year cycle ⓘ 3rd year of 19-year cycle ⓘ 6th year of 19-year cycle ⓘ 8th year of 19-year cycle ⓘ |
| partOf | Hebrew calendar ⓘ |
| positionInLeapYear |
12th month
ⓘ
month before Adar II ⓘ |
| precedes |
Adar
ⓘ
Adar II ⓘ
linked to:
Adar I
|
| PurimKatanDate | 14 Adar I ⓘ |
| ShushanPurimKatanDate | 15 Adar I ⓘ |
| usedByCommunity |
Karaite Judaism
ⓘ
linked to:
Karaite Jews
Rabbinic Judaism ⓘ |
| usedFor | dating of Jewish legal documents in leap years ⓘ |
| usedIn |
lunisolar Hebrew calendar
ⓘ
linked to:
Hebrew calendar
|
| usedInContext |
Jewish civil life in Hebrew dates
ⓘ
Jewish liturgy ⓘ Jewish religious observance ⓘ |
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 I Description of subject: Adar I is the leap-year intercalary month added to the Hebrew calendar before the regular month of Adar.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Adar I
linked to: Adar I
linked to: Adar I
linked to: Adar I
linked to: Adar I
linked to: Adar I
linked to: Adar I