Sohrai
E807558
Sohrai is a traditional harvest and cattle-worship festival celebrated by the Santal people, marked by ritual observances, feasting, and distinctive wall paintings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sohrai canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9547926 — 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: Sohrai Context triple: [Santal people, festival, Sohrai]
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A.
Sohra
Sohra is a town in Meghalaya, India, famed for its exceptionally high rainfall and lush, dramatic landscapes.
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B.
Sakesar
Sakesar is a prominent mountain peak in Pakistan’s Punjab region, known for its scenic views, cooler climate, and strategic location within the Salt Range.
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C.
Sohi
Sohi is a Punjabi-origin surname commonly found among people from the Indian subcontinent and their diaspora.
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D.
Salbai
Salbai is a historical location in India known primarily as the site where the 1782 Treaty of Salbai was concluded between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire.
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E.
Sehore
Sehore is a town and district headquarters in central India, located near the state capital Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh.
- 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: Sohrai Target entity description: Sohrai is a traditional harvest and cattle-worship festival celebrated by the Santal people, marked by ritual observances, feasting, and distinctive wall paintings.
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A.
Sohra
Sohra is a town in Meghalaya, India, famed for its exceptionally high rainfall and lush, dramatic landscapes.
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B.
Sakesar
Sakesar is a prominent mountain peak in Pakistan’s Punjab region, known for its scenic views, cooler climate, and strategic location within the Salt Range.
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C.
Sohi
Sohi is a Punjabi-origin surname commonly found among people from the Indian subcontinent and their diaspora.
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D.
Salbai
Salbai is a historical location in India known primarily as the site where the 1782 Treaty of Salbai was concluded between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire.
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E.
Sehore
Sehore is a town and district headquarters in central India, located near the state capital Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cattle-worship festival
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festival ⓘ harvest festival ⓘ religious festival ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Sohrai art
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Sohrai painting ⓘ |
| celebratedBy |
Santal people
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Santhal tribe ⓘ
linked to:
Santhal
|
| communityRole |
affirmation of Santal identity
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strengthening social bonds ⓘ transmission of traditional knowledge ⓘ |
| hasArtForm |
Sohrai mural art
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Sohrai wall painting ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext |
Adivasi culture
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Santal religion ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
fertility
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gratitude for harvest ⓘ prosperity ⓘ reverence for cattle ⓘ |
| includesActivity |
community gatherings
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feasting ⓘ music and dance ⓘ ritual observances ⓘ wall painting ⓘ |
| mainRitualFocus |
cattle worship
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harvest ⓘ |
| performedAt |
cattle sheds
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house walls ⓘ village spaces ⓘ |
| region |
Jharkhand
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eastern India ⓘ parts of Bihar ⓘ parts of West Bengal ⓘ |
| religiousAspect |
animist beliefs
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nature worship ⓘ |
| timeOfYear | post-harvest season ⓘ |
| typicalMotif |
animals
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domestic scenes ⓘ geometric patterns ⓘ plants ⓘ |
| usesMedium |
black manganese
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earth colors ⓘ natural pigments ⓘ red ochre ⓘ rice paste ⓘ white clay ⓘ |
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: Sohrai Description of subject: Sohrai is a traditional harvest and cattle-worship festival celebrated by the Santal people, marked by ritual observances, feasting, and distinctive wall paintings.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.