Marḥeshvan
E81880
Marḥeshvan is the eighth month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally noted for having no major Jewish holidays.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marḥeshvan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T617554 — 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: Marḥeshvan Context triple: [Cheshvan, alsoSpelled, Marḥeshvan]
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A.
Tihamah
Tihamah is a low-lying coastal plain along the Red Sea in western Arabia, known historically as a hot, arid region encompassing parts of modern-day Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
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B.
Usakhelauri
Usakhelauri is a rare and highly prized Georgian red wine known for its natural sweetness, aromatic complexity, and limited production in the mountainous Racha region.
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C.
Shimsha
Shimsha is a river in southern India that flows through Karnataka and is known for its waterfalls and contribution to the Kaveri river system.
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D.
Noshaq
Noshaq is a prominent mountain in the Hindu Kush range, straddling the Afghanistan–Pakistan border and known as one of the region’s highest and most challenging peaks.
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E.
Ishbak
Ishbak is a lesser-known son of the biblical patriarch Abraham, mentioned among the children he had later in life.
- 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: Marḥeshvan Target entity description: Marḥeshvan is the eighth month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally noted for having no major Jewish holidays.
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A.
Tihamah
Tihamah is a low-lying coastal plain along the Red Sea in western Arabia, known historically as a hot, arid region encompassing parts of modern-day Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
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B.
Usakhelauri
Usakhelauri is a rare and highly prized Georgian red wine known for its natural sweetness, aromatic complexity, and limited production in the mountainous Racha region.
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C.
Shimsha
Shimsha is a river in southern India that flows through Karnataka and is known for its waterfalls and contribution to the Kaveri river system.
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D.
Noshaq
Noshaq is a prominent mountain in the Hindu Kush range, straddling the Afghanistan–Pakistan border and known as one of the region’s highest and most challenging peaks.
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E.
Ishbak
Ishbak is a lesser-known son of the biblical patriarch Abraham, mentioned among the children he had later in life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew calendar month
ⓘ
month of the Hebrew calendar ⓘ |
| associatedWith | prayers for rain in the Land of Israel ⓘ |
| calendarSystem | lunisolar ⓘ |
| category | Hebrew calendar ⓘ |
| contains | start of the rainy season in the traditional agricultural cycle of Israel ⓘ |
| correspondsRoughlyToGregorian |
November
ⓘ
October ⓘ |
| follows | Tishrei ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Cheshvan
ⓘ
Marcheshvan ⓘ
linked to:
Cheshvan
|
| hasEtymology | name derived from Akkadian "waraḥ šamnu" meaning "eighth month" ⓘ |
| hasLengthInCommonYear | 29 days ⓘ |
| hasLengthInFullYear | 30 days ⓘ |
| hasMinorObservance | some communities mark minor yahrzeits and fasts but no major festivals ⓘ |
| hasReligiousSignificance | traditionally noted for having no major Jewish holidays ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant |
חשוון
ⓘ
מרחשוון ⓘ |
| isCountedFrom |
Nisan in the biblical religious ordering
ⓘ
Tishrei in the modern civil ordering ⓘ |
| isOnlyMonthWithNoFestivals | true ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| occursInSeason | autumn in the Northern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| positionInHebrewCivilYear | 2 ⓘ |
| positionInHebrewReligiousYear | 8 ⓘ |
| precedes | Kislev ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Judaism ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Hebrew civil calendar
ⓘ
linked to:
Hebrew calendar
Hebrew liturgical calendar ⓘ Jewish religious observance ⓘ |
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: Marḥeshvan Description of subject: Marḥeshvan is the eighth month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally noted for having no major Jewish holidays.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.