Easter
E697
Easter is the principal Christian festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, observed with religious services and various cultural traditions worldwide.
All labels observed (15)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Easter canonical | 93 |
| Easter Sunday | 29 |
| Pascha | 21 |
| Pascha (Easter) | 6 |
| Easter Day | 3 |
| Coptic Easter | 2 |
| Easter bunny | 1 |
| Easter holiday | 1 |
| Easter in Nigeria | 1 |
| Easter in the United States | 1 |
| Easter season | 1 |
| Fasika (Easter) | 1 |
| Orthodox Easter | 1 |
| Pascha (Orthodox Easter) | 1 |
| Resurrection (Easter) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17649 — 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: Easter Context triple: [Christianity, hasImportantHoliday, Easter]
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A.
Independence Day
Independence Day is a major U.S. federal holiday celebrated on July 4th commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, typically marked by fireworks, parades, and patriotic displays.
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B.
Sununu
Sununu is a prominent American political family name most notably associated with former New Hampshire Governor and White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu and his son, Governor Chris Sununu.
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C.
Salem witch trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of infamous 1692–1693 prosecutions in colonial New England where mass hysteria and superstition led to the execution and imprisonment of people accused of witchcraft.
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D.
Giza
Giza is an Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile, famous for the Giza Plateau where the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx are located.
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E.
Veritas
Veritas is the Latin word for "truth" and is famously used as the motto of Harvard University.
- 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: Easter Target entity description: Easter is the principal Christian festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, observed with religious services and various cultural traditions worldwide.
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A.
Independence Day
Independence Day is a major U.S. federal holiday celebrated on July 4th commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, typically marked by fireworks, parades, and patriotic displays.
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B.
Sununu
Sununu is a prominent American political family name most notably associated with former New Hampshire Governor and White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu and his son, Governor Chris Sununu.
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C.
Salem witch trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of infamous 1692–1693 prosecutions in colonial New England where mass hysteria and superstition led to the execution and imprisonment of people accused of witchcraft.
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D.
Giza
Giza is an Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile, famous for the Giza Plateau where the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx are located.
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E.
Veritas
Veritas is the Latin word for "truth" and is famously used as the motto of Harvard University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (74)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian religious festival
ⓘ
moveable feast ⓘ public holiday in many countries ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Pascha
ⓘ
linked to:
Easter
Resurrection Sunday ⓘ |
| associatedCustom |
Easter egg hunts
ⓘ
Easter parades ⓘ blessing of food baskets (in some traditions) ⓘ church attendance ⓘ exchange of greeting cards ⓘ family meals ⓘ sunrise services ⓘ |
| associatedDay |
Easter Monday
ⓘ
Good Friday ⓘ Holy Saturday ⓘ Maundy Thursday ⓘ Palm Sunday ⓘ |
| associatedFood |
Easter bread
ⓘ
chocolate eggs ⓘ lamb dishes ⓘ |
| associatedPeriod |
Holy Week
ⓘ
Lent ⓘ |
| associatedSymbol |
Easter bunny
ⓘ
linked to:
Easter
Easter egg ⓘ Paschal candle ⓘ empty cross ⓘ empty tomb ⓘ lamb ⓘ |
| calendarSystem |
Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
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Julian-based Paschalion (most Eastern Orthodox churches) ⓘ |
| celebratedBy |
Anglican Communion
ⓘ
Catholic Church ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
Eastern Orthodox Church ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Lutheran churches ⓘ
linked to:
Lutheranism
Methodist churches ⓘ Oriental Orthodox churches ⓘ
linked to:
Oriental Orthodoxy
Protestant churches ⓘ Reformed churches ⓘ
linked to:
Christian Reformed Church in North America
many non-denominational Christian churches ⓘ |
| commemorates |
empty tomb of Jesus
ⓘ
resurrection of Jesus ⓘ |
| coreBiblicalEvent |
appearances of the risen Christ to disciples
ⓘ
discovery of the empty tomb by women followers of Jesus ⓘ |
| coreBiblicalSource |
New Testament Gospels
ⓘ
linked to:
Gospels
|
| dateDetermination | first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the March equinox ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Eastertide
ⓘ
Pentecost (end of Easter season in many traditions) ⓘ
linked to:
Pentecost
|
| followsEvent | Crucifixion of Jesus ⓘ |
| hasSecularAspects | yes ⓘ |
| linkedToJewishHoliday | Passover ⓘ |
| liturgicalColor |
gold (in many Western traditions)
ⓘ
white (in many Western traditions) ⓘ |
| mainTheme | resurrection of Jesus Christ ⓘ |
| majorService |
Easter Sunday Mass
ⓘ
Easter Vigil ⓘ Paschal Divine Liturgy ⓘ |
| partOf |
Christian liturgical year
ⓘ
Paschal cycle ⓘ |
| preceededBy |
Good Friday
ⓘ
Holy Saturday ⓘ Holy Week ⓘ |
| publicHolidayIn |
Australia
ⓘ
Brazil ⓘ Canada ⓘ France ⓘ Germany ⓘ Italy ⓘ Philippines ⓘ Spain ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ many other countries ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| typicalMonth |
April
ⓘ
March ⓘ |
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: Easter Description of subject: Easter is the principal Christian festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, observed with religious services and various cultural traditions worldwide.
Referenced by (163)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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