La Tomatina
E231535
La Tomatina is a world-famous annual tomato-throwing festival held in the town of Buñol in Spain, attracting thousands of participants for a massive, playful street food fight.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Tomatina canonical | 5 |
| La Tomatina festival | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2071440 — 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 Tomatina Context triple: [Kingdom of Spain, famousFestival, La Tomatina]
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A.
Fiesta del Fuego
Fiesta del Fuego is a major annual Caribbean cultural festival in Santiago de Cuba featuring music, dance, religious traditions, and vibrant street celebrations.
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B.
Bañamos Festival
Bañamos Festival is a local cultural and water-themed celebration in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, highlighting the town’s hot springs, heritage, and community traditions.
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C.
Fiesta de San Pedro
Fiesta de San Pedro is a traditional religious and cultural celebration in Tláhuac, Mexico City, honoring Saint Peter with processions, music, dance, and local festivities.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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 Tomatina Target entity description: La Tomatina is a world-famous annual tomato-throwing festival held in the town of Buñol in Spain, attracting thousands of participants for a massive, playful street food fight.
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A.
Fiesta del Fuego
Fiesta del Fuego is a major annual Caribbean cultural festival in Santiago de Cuba featuring music, dance, religious traditions, and vibrant street celebrations.
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B.
Bañamos Festival
Bañamos Festival is a local cultural and water-themed celebration in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, highlighting the town’s hot springs, heritage, and community traditions.
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C.
Fiesta de San Pedro
Fiesta de San Pedro is a traditional religious and cultural celebration in Tláhuac, Mexico City, honoring Saint Peter with processions, music, dance, and local festivities.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
annual event
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cultural event ⓘ festival ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| ageRestriction | minimum age for participation ⓘ |
| approximateTomatoQuantity | tens of thousands of kilograms of tomatoes ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Buñol Town Council ⓘ |
| atmosphere |
crowded
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festive ⓘ playful ⓘ |
| attractsTourismFrom | around the world ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
major event in Buñol’s local identity
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symbol of Spanish festive culture ⓘ |
| dressCode |
casual clothes
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clothes that can be stained ⓘ |
| economicImpact | boosts local tourism ⓘ |
| environmentalMeasure | streets are cleaned after the event ⓘ |
| estimatedAttendance | thousands of participants ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre | food fight festival ⓘ |
| hasMediaCoverage |
international press
ⓘ
online media ⓘ television ⓘ |
| language |
Spanish
ⓘ
Valencian ⓘ
linked to:
Catalan
|
| locatedIn |
Buñol
ⓘ
Province of Valencia ⓘ Valencian Community ⓘ |
| mainActivity | tomato throwing ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
overripe tomatoes
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ripe tomatoes ⓘ |
| notableFor |
large crowds in narrow streets
ⓘ
massive tomato fight ⓘ |
| participantType |
local residents
ⓘ
tourists ⓘ |
| region | eastern Spain ⓘ |
| requiresTicket | yes ⓘ |
| rule |
no tearing of clothes
ⓘ
only tomatoes may be thrown ⓘ stop throwing when the signal is given ⓘ |
| safetyRequirement |
squash tomatoes before throwing
ⓘ
wear goggles ⓘ |
| setting | streets of Buñol ⓘ |
| theme | playful street food fight ⓘ |
| tourismCategory | festival tourism ⓘ |
| typicalMonth | August ⓘ |
| typicalWeekday | Wednesday ⓘ |
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 Tomatina Description of subject: La Tomatina is a world-famous annual tomato-throwing festival held in the town of Buñol in Spain, attracting thousands of participants for a massive, playful street food fight.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: La Tomatina