Setsubun festival
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The Setsubun festival is a traditional Japanese event marking the seasonal transition from winter to spring, celebrated with rituals like bean-throwing to drive away evil spirits and invite good fortune.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Setsubun festival canonical | 3 |
| Setsubun | 2 |
| Setsubun Mantoro | 1 |
| Setsubun bean-throwing ceremony | 1 |
| Setsubun ceremony | 1 |
| Taga Taisha Setsubun Festival | 1 |
| 節分 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1655921 — 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: Setsubun festival Context triple: [Namba Yasaka Shrine, hasFestival, Setsubun festival]
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A.
Sagicho Festival
The Sagicho Festival is a traditional fire festival in Omihachiman, Japan, featuring elaborately decorated floats that are paraded and then dramatically burned to mark the coming of spring.
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B.
Yabun Festival
Yabun Festival is a major annual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural celebration in Sydney that showcases Indigenous music, dance, and community on 26 January.
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C.
Tenjin Matsuri
Tenjin Matsuri is one of Japan’s most famous and historic summer festivals in Osaka, featuring elaborate river processions, traditional performances, and fireworks in honor of the deity of scholarship.
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D.
Nagaoka Festival
The Nagaoka Festival is a major summer event in Nagaoka, Niigata, best known for its large-scale fireworks displays and traditional celebrations.
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E.
Jidai Matsuri
Jidai Matsuri is a major annual historical parade in Kyoto that celebrates the city’s rich past with participants dressed in costumes from various eras of Japanese history.
- 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: Setsubun festival Target entity description: The Setsubun festival is a traditional Japanese event marking the seasonal transition from winter to spring, celebrated with rituals like bean-throwing to drive away evil spirits and invite good fortune.
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A.
Sagicho Festival
The Sagicho Festival is a traditional fire festival in Omihachiman, Japan, featuring elaborately decorated floats that are paraded and then dramatically burned to mark the coming of spring.
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B.
Yabun Festival
Yabun Festival is a major annual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural celebration in Sydney that showcases Indigenous music, dance, and community on 26 January.
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C.
Tenjin Matsuri
Tenjin Matsuri is one of Japan’s most famous and historic summer festivals in Osaka, featuring elaborate river processions, traditional performances, and fireworks in honor of the deity of scholarship.
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D.
Nagaoka Festival
The Nagaoka Festival is a major summer event in Nagaoka, Niigata, best known for its large-scale fireworks displays and traditional celebrations.
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E.
Jidai Matsuri
Jidai Matsuri is a major annual historical parade in Kyoto that celebrates the city’s rich past with participants dressed in costumes from various eras of Japanese history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese festival
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annual event ⓘ seasonal festival ⓘ |
| associatedTerm | Risshun ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
exorcism of evil spirits
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fortune ⓘ lucky direction ⓘ oni ⓘ purification ⓘ start of spring ⓘ transition from winter to spring ⓘ |
| basedOn | traditional Japanese calendar ⓘ |
| chantMeaning | Demons out, good fortune in ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
household protection from misfortune
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marks seasonal transition ⓘ prayer for health and prosperity in the coming year ⓘ |
| ehomakiCustom | eating a thick sushi roll while facing the lucky direction ⓘ |
| ehomakiMeaning | lucky direction sushi roll ⓘ |
| followsCalendar | lunar-solar calendar ⓘ |
| hasCustom |
children throwing beans at a person wearing an oni mask
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eating ehomaki ⓘ eating one bean for each year of age ⓘ eating roasted soybeans ⓘ family members throwing beans ⓘ head of household throwing beans ⓘ |
| hasEvent |
public bean-throwing ceremonies at shrines
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public bean-throwing ceremonies at temples ⓘ |
| hasJapaneseName |
節分
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linked to:
Setsubun festival
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| literalMeaning | seasonal division ⓘ |
| mainRitual | mamemaki ⓘ |
| mamemakiMeaning | bean-throwing ⓘ |
| oniMeaning | demons ⓘ |
| participants |
local celebrities
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monks ⓘ priests ⓘ sumo wrestlers ⓘ |
| performedAt |
Buddhist temples
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Shinto shrines ⓘ households in Japan ⓘ |
| relatedRitual | tsuina ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
Buddhist practices
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Shinto practices ⓘ |
| RisshunMeaning | first day of spring ⓘ |
| symbolicAction |
throwing beans to drive away evil spirits
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throwing beans to invite good fortune ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Heian period origins ⓘ |
| tsuinaMeaning | ancient court exorcism ritual ⓘ |
| typicalChant | Oni wa soto, fuku wa uchi ⓘ |
| typicalDate |
February 3
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day before Risshun ⓘ |
| usesItem |
ehomaki
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roasted soybeans ⓘ |
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: Setsubun festival Description of subject: The Setsubun festival is a traditional Japanese event marking the seasonal transition from winter to spring, celebrated with rituals like bean-throwing to drive away evil spirits and invite good fortune.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Setsubun festival