Waso
E385634
Waso is a traditional month in the Burmese calendar that typically marks the beginning of the Buddhist Lent and the height of the monsoon season in Myanmar.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waso canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3755115 — 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: Waso Context triple: [Burmese calendar, hasMonth, Waso]
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A.
Jipijapa
Jipijapa is a city in coastal Ecuador known historically for its production of Panama hats and its agricultural economy.
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B.
Wanka
Wanka is a song featured on the album "Legend of the Sun Virgin" by New Zealand singer-songwriter Bic Runga.
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C.
Cajeme
Cajeme is a major municipality and agricultural and industrial center in the southern part of the Mexican state of Sonora, best known for its main city Ciudad Obregón.
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D.
Sopó
Sopó is a small municipality in the department of Cundinamarca, Colombia, known for its scenic Andean landscapes and dairy production.
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E.
Pasochoa
Pasochoa is an extinct volcanic mountain in Ecuador known for its lush cloud forests and rich biodiversity within a protected ecological reserve.
- 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: Waso Target entity description: Waso is a traditional month in the Burmese calendar that typically marks the beginning of the Buddhist Lent and the height of the monsoon season in Myanmar.
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A.
Jipijapa
Jipijapa is a city in coastal Ecuador known historically for its production of Panama hats and its agricultural economy.
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B.
Wanka
Wanka is a song featured on the album "Legend of the Sun Virgin" by New Zealand singer-songwriter Bic Runga.
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C.
Cajeme
Cajeme is a major municipality and agricultural and industrial center in the southern part of the Mexican state of Sonora, best known for its main city Ciudad Obregón.
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D.
Sopó
Sopó is a small municipality in the department of Cundinamarca, Colombia, known for its scenic Andean landscapes and dairy production.
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E.
Pasochoa
Pasochoa is an extinct volcanic mountain in Ecuador known for its lush cloud forests and rich biodiversity within a protected ecological reserve.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Burmese calendar month
ⓘ
month ⓘ traditional month ⓘ |
| agriculturalAssociation | rice cultivation season ⓘ |
| approximateGregorianEquivalent |
July
ⓘ
June ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Buddhist Lent
ⓘ
height of the monsoon season in Myanmar ⓘ |
| BurmeseName | ဝါဆို ⓘ |
| calendarType | lunisolar calendar ⓘ |
| climateAssociation | heavy rainfall ⓘ |
| country | Myanmar ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Burmese culture ⓘ |
| eventOnFullMoon | beginning of Buddhist Lent (Vassa) ⓘ |
| follows | Nayon ⓘ |
| marks | beginning of Buddhist Lent ⓘ |
| notableFestival | Waso full moon day ⓘ |
| partOf | Burmese calendar ⓘ |
| precedes | Wagaung ⓘ |
| region | Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousPractice |
increased meditation and observance by monks
ⓘ
laypeople taking additional precepts ⓘ |
| script | Burmese script ⓘ |
| season | monsoon season ⓘ |
| timeSystem | traditional Burmese timekeeping ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Bamar people
ⓘ
linked to:
Bamar
Buddhists in Myanmar ⓘ |
| usedIn | Myanmar ⓘ |
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: Waso Description of subject: Waso is a traditional month in the Burmese calendar that typically marks the beginning of the Buddhist Lent and the height of the monsoon season in Myanmar.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.