La Mercè
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La Mercè is Barcelona’s major annual festival, celebrated each September with street parades, human towers (castells), fireworks, and concerts honoring the city’s patron saint.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Mercè canonical | 4 |
| La Mercè festival | 2 |
| Festes de la Mercè | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1868910 — 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: La Mercè Context triple: [Catalonia, traditionalFestival, La Mercè]
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A.
Las Fallas
Las Fallas is a famous traditional festival in Valencia, Spain, known for its elaborate satirical sculptures, street parties, fireworks, and the ceremonial burning of large papier-mâché monuments.
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B.
Feria de Abril
Feria de Abril is Seville’s famous spring fair, a week-long festival of flamenco, horses, traditional dress, music, and food that transforms the city into a vibrant celebration of Andalusian culture.
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C.
Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián
Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián is a vibrant multi-day street festival held each January in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, featuring parades, live music, traditional food, artisans, and religious and cultural celebrations that mark the unofficial end of the holiday season.
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D.
Sant Antoni de Portmany
Sant Antoni de Portmany is a coastal town on the Spanish island of Ibiza, known for its vibrant nightlife, beaches, and sunset views.
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E.
Carnival of Cádiz
The Carnival of Cádiz is a famous Spanish festival renowned for its satirical musical performances, elaborate costumes, and lively street celebrations held each year in the city of Cádiz.
- 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: La Mercè Target entity description: La Mercè is Barcelona’s major annual festival, celebrated each September with street parades, human towers (castells), fireworks, and concerts honoring the city’s patron saint.
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A.
Las Fallas
Las Fallas is a famous traditional festival in Valencia, Spain, known for its elaborate satirical sculptures, street parties, fireworks, and the ceremonial burning of large papier-mâché monuments.
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B.
Feria de Abril
Feria de Abril is Seville’s famous spring fair, a week-long festival of flamenco, horses, traditional dress, music, and food that transforms the city into a vibrant celebration of Andalusian culture.
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C.
Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián
Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián is a vibrant multi-day street festival held each January in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, featuring parades, live music, traditional food, artisans, and religious and cultural celebrations that mark the unofficial end of the holiday season.
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D.
Sant Antoni de Portmany
Sant Antoni de Portmany is a coastal town on the Spanish island of Ibiza, known for its vibrant nightlife, beaches, and sunset views.
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E.
Carnival of Cádiz
The Carnival of Cádiz is a famous Spanish festival renowned for its satirical musical performances, elaborate costumes, and lively street celebrations held each year in the city of Cádiz.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
annual festival
ⓘ
cultural event ⓘ festival ⓘ |
| activitiesInclude |
family activities
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music performances ⓘ pyrotechnic shows ⓘ street arts ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Festes de la Mercè
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linked to:
La Mercè
|
| audience |
local residents
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tourists ⓘ |
| category |
Annual events in Spain
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Festivals in Barcelona ⓘ Religious festivals in Spain ⓘ |
| city | Barcelona ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Catalonia ⓘ |
| feature |
castells
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concerts ⓘ correfoc ⓘ fireworks ⓘ free public concerts ⓘ gegants i capgrossos ⓘ giant puppets ⓘ human towers ⓘ light shows ⓘ projection mapping ⓘ sardanes ⓘ street parades ⓘ street performances ⓘ traditional Catalan dances ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| honors |
Mare de Déu de la Mercè
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Our Lady of Mercy ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Catalan
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Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Barcelona
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Catalonia ⓘ Spain ⓘ |
| mainDay | 24 September ⓘ |
| month | September ⓘ |
| name | La Mercè ⓘ |
| organisedBy |
Barcelona City Council
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linked to:
City Council of Barcelona
|
| patronSaintOf | Barcelona ⓘ |
| recurrence | every year ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| scope | citywide ⓘ |
| significance |
Barcelona’s major annual festival
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one of Barcelona’s largest public celebrations ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late September ⓘ |
| typeOfCelebration | patron saint festival ⓘ |
| typicalStartDate | around 24 September ⓘ |
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: La Mercè Description of subject: La Mercè is Barcelona’s major annual festival, celebrated each September with street parades, human towers (castells), fireworks, and concerts honoring the city’s patron saint.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: La Mercè
linked to: La Mercè
linked to: La Mercè