Seollal
E488645
Seollal is the Korean Lunar New Year celebration, marked by ancestral rites, traditional foods, games, and family gatherings to welcome the new year.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seollal canonical | 4 |
| Korean Lunar New Year | 1 |
| 설날 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5036557 — 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: Seollal Context triple: [Koreans, traditionalHoliday, Seollal]
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A.
Hangul Day
Hangul Day is a South Korean national holiday that celebrates the creation and proclamation of the Korean alphabet, Hangul, by King Sejong the Great in the 15th century.
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B.
Spring Festival
The Spring Festival is the most important traditional Chinese New Year celebration, marked by family reunions, festive meals, cultural rituals, and the welcoming of the lunar new year.
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C.
Jagalchi Festival
The Jagalchi Festival is an annual cultural and seafood celebration in Busan, South Korea, featuring fresh catches, food stalls, performances, and marine-themed events centered around the famous Jagalchi Fish Market.
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D.
Tet holiday
Tet holiday is the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, the country’s most important and widely celebrated festival marking the arrival of spring and a time for family reunions and ancestral worship.
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E.
Laba Festival
Laba Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday marking the prelude to the Lunar New Year, celebrated with offerings and the eating of Laba congee to pray for good fortune and a bountiful harvest.
- 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: Seollal Target entity description: Seollal is the Korean Lunar New Year celebration, marked by ancestral rites, traditional foods, games, and family gatherings to welcome the new year.
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A.
Hangul Day
Hangul Day is a South Korean national holiday that celebrates the creation and proclamation of the Korean alphabet, Hangul, by King Sejong the Great in the 15th century.
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B.
Spring Festival
The Spring Festival is the most important traditional Chinese New Year celebration, marked by family reunions, festive meals, cultural rituals, and the welcoming of the lunar new year.
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C.
Jagalchi Festival
The Jagalchi Festival is an annual cultural and seafood celebration in Busan, South Korea, featuring fresh catches, food stalls, performances, and marine-themed events centered around the famous Jagalchi Fish Market.
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D.
Tet holiday
Tet holiday is the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, the country’s most important and widely celebrated festival marking the arrival of spring and a time for family reunions and ancestral worship.
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E.
Laba Festival
Laba Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday marking the prelude to the Lunar New Year, celebrated with offerings and the eating of Laba congee to pray for good fortune and a bountiful harvest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Korean holiday
ⓘ
Lunar New Year celebration ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Korean Lunar New Year
ⓘ
linked to:
Seollal
설날 ⓘ
linked to:
Seollal
|
| associatedWith | zodiac animal of the year ⓘ |
| basedOn | Chinese lunar calendar ⓘ |
| celebratedOn | first day of the Korean lunar calendar ⓘ |
| country |
North Korea
ⓘ
South Korea ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | one of the most important traditional holidays in Korea ⓘ |
| custom |
bowing to elders
ⓘ
children receiving New Year’s money ⓘ cleaning the house before the new year ⓘ preparing an ancestral table ⓘ |
| duration | three-day holiday in South Korea ⓘ |
| followsCalendar | Lunisolar calendar ⓘ |
| food |
galbijjim
ⓘ
hangwa ⓘ jeon ⓘ sikhye ⓘ tteokguk ⓘ yakgwa ⓘ |
| greeting | 새해 복 많이 받으세요 ⓘ |
| language | Korean ⓘ |
| majorActivity |
New Year’s greetings
ⓘ
ancestral rites ⓘ family gatherings ⓘ gift giving ⓘ traditional games ⓘ visiting relatives ⓘ wearing hanbok ⓘ |
| observedBy |
Korean diaspora
ⓘ
Koreans ⓘ |
| publicHolidayIn | South Korea ⓘ |
| religiousAspect | Confucian ancestral rites ⓘ |
| ritual |
charye
ⓘ
sebae ⓘ |
| symbolicMeaning |
family unity
ⓘ
filial piety ⓘ good fortune ⓘ respect for ancestors ⓘ start of a new year ⓘ |
| traditionalClothing |
hanbok
ⓘ
linked to:
Hanbok
|
| traditionalGame |
go-stop
ⓘ
jegichagi ⓘ neolttwigi ⓘ tuho ⓘ yutnori ⓘ |
| typicalGregorianDateRange | late January to mid February ⓘ |
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: Seollal Description of subject: Seollal is the Korean Lunar New Year celebration, marked by ancestral rites, traditional foods, games, and family gatherings to welcome the new year.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Seollal
linked to: Seollal