Rabi al-awwal
E605931
Rabi al-awwal is the third month of the Islamic lunar calendar, traditionally noted for including the observance of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday (Mawlid).
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rabi al-awwal canonical | 3 |
| Rabi al-Awwal | 1 |
| Rabi ul Awwal | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6517934 — 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: Rabi al-awwal Context triple: [Islamic lunar calendar, hasMonth, Rabi al-awwal]
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A.
Shawwal
Shawwal is the tenth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, notable for beginning with the Eid al-Fitr celebration that marks the end of Ramadan.
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B.
Muharram
Muharram is the first month of the Islamic lunar calendar, regarded as one of the four sacred months and especially significant to Shia Muslims for the commemoration of Ashura.
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C.
Dhu al-Qadah
Dhu al-Qadah is the eleventh month of the Islamic lunar calendar, traditionally regarded as one of the four sacred months in which warfare is forbidden.
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D.
Nayrouz
Nayrouz is the Coptic New Year festival, commemorating the martyrs and marking the beginning of the Coptic calendar year.
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E.
Ramzan
Ramzan is a masculine given name most prominently associated with Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
- 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: Rabi al-awwal Target entity description: Rabi al-awwal is the third month of the Islamic lunar calendar, traditionally noted for including the observance of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday (Mawlid).
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A.
Shawwal
Shawwal is the tenth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, notable for beginning with the Eid al-Fitr celebration that marks the end of Ramadan.
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B.
Muharram
Muharram is the first month of the Islamic lunar calendar, regarded as one of the four sacred months and especially significant to Shia Muslims for the commemoration of Ashura.
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C.
Dhu al-Qadah
Dhu al-Qadah is the eleventh month of the Islamic lunar calendar, traditionally regarded as one of the four sacred months in which warfare is forbidden.
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D.
Nayrouz
Nayrouz is the Coptic New Year festival, commemorating the martyrs and marking the beginning of the Coptic calendar year.
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E.
Ramzan
Ramzan is a masculine given name most prominently associated with Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lunar month
ⓘ
month of the Islamic calendar ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Rabi I
ⓘ
Rabi al-Awwal ⓘ
linked to:
Rabi al-awwal
Rabi ul Awwal ⓘ
linked to:
Rabi al-awwal
|
| associatedWith |
Mawlid
ⓘ
birth of the Prophet Muhammad ⓘ |
| belongsToEra | Anno Hegirae (AH) ⓘ |
| calendarSystem | Islamic lunar calendar ⓘ |
| calendarType | lunar ⓘ |
| contains | various local Mawlid celebrations ⓘ |
| dateBasis | lunar sightings ⓘ |
| doesNotAlignWith | fixed Gregorian dates ⓘ |
| follows | Safar ⓘ |
| hasApproximateLengthInDays | 29 or 30 ⓘ |
| hasCulturalPractices |
charitable activities in some communities
ⓘ
public lectures on the Prophet’s life ⓘ recitation of poetry in praise of the Prophet ⓘ religious gatherings ⓘ |
| hasReligiousStatus | not one of the four sacred months in Islam ⓘ |
| isEarlierThan | Ramadan in the Hijri year ⓘ |
| isLaterThan | Muharram in the Hijri year ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Arabic ⓘ |
| literalMeaning | the first spring ⓘ |
| observanceType | religious observances ⓘ |
| observedIn |
Middle East
ⓘ
North Africa ⓘ South Asia ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| partOf | Hijri calendar year ⓘ |
| positionInCalendar | 3 ⓘ |
| precedes | Rabi al-thani ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Islam ⓘ |
| shiftsByEachSolarYear | about 10 to 11 days earlier ⓘ |
| significanceInShiaCommunities | celebration of the Prophet’s birth and other religious events in some traditions ⓘ |
| significanceInSunniCommunities | commemoration of the Prophet Muhammad’s birth in some regions ⓘ |
| startDeterminedBy | new moon ⓘ |
| transliterationSystem | various Latin transliterations ⓘ |
| usedBy | Muslims worldwide ⓘ |
| usedFor | dating Islamic historical events ⓘ |
| writingSystemOfName | Arabic script ⓘ |
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: Rabi al-awwal Description of subject: Rabi al-awwal is the third month of the Islamic lunar calendar, traditionally noted for including the observance of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday (Mawlid).
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Rabi al-awwal
linked to: Rabi al-awwal