UFO Festival
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The UFO Festival is an annual celebration in McMinnville, Oregon, featuring parades, costume contests, expert talks, and other events centered on UFOs and extraterrestrial lore.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McMinnville UFO Festival | 2 |
| UFO Festival canonical | 2 |
| McMenamins UFO Festival | 1 |
| annual UFO Festival | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11614162 — 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: UFO Festival Context triple: [McMinnville, Oregon, hostsEvent, UFO Festival]
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A.
Exeter UFO Festival
The Exeter UFO Festival is an annual event in Exeter, New Hampshire, celebrating UFO lore and the famous 1965 Exeter UFO incident with talks, activities, and community gatherings.
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B.
Roswell UFO Festival
The Roswell UFO Festival is an annual event in Roswell, New Mexico celebrating UFO culture and the town’s famous 1947 alleged flying saucer incident with parades, costumes, lectures, and themed entertainment.
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C.
Area 506 Festival
Area 506 Festival is a music and cultural festival in Saint John, New Brunswick, showcasing East Coast artists, local vendors, and waterfront experiences.
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D.
Tobiume Festival
Tobiume Festival is a traditional annual celebration at Dazaifu Tenmangū Shrine in Fukuoka, Japan, honoring the legendary “flying plum tree” associated with the scholar-deity Sugawara no Michizane through rituals, performances, and seasonal plum-blossom viewing.
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E.
Untold Festival
Untold Festival is a major annual electronic music festival in Romania, renowned for its large-scale productions and top international DJ lineups.
- 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: UFO Festival Target entity description: The UFO Festival is an annual celebration in McMinnville, Oregon, featuring parades, costume contests, expert talks, and other events centered on UFOs and extraterrestrial lore.
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A.
Exeter UFO Festival
The Exeter UFO Festival is an annual event in Exeter, New Hampshire, celebrating UFO lore and the famous 1965 Exeter UFO incident with talks, activities, and community gatherings.
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B.
Roswell UFO Festival
The Roswell UFO Festival is an annual event in Roswell, New Mexico celebrating UFO culture and the town’s famous 1947 alleged flying saucer incident with parades, costumes, lectures, and themed entertainment.
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C.
Area 506 Festival
Area 506 Festival is a music and cultural festival in Saint John, New Brunswick, showcasing East Coast artists, local vendors, and waterfront experiences.
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D.
Tobiume Festival
Tobiume Festival is a traditional annual celebration at Dazaifu Tenmangū Shrine in Fukuoka, Japan, honoring the legendary “flying plum tree” associated with the scholar-deity Sugawara no Michizane through rituals, performances, and seasonal plum-blossom viewing.
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E.
Untold Festival
Untold Festival is a major annual electronic music festival in Romania, renowned for its large-scale productions and top international DJ lineups.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
annual event
ⓘ
festival ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
McMinnville UFO Festival
ⓘ
linked to:
UFO Festival
|
| associatedWith |
UFO culture
ⓘ
paranormal studies ⓘ science fiction fandom ⓘ |
| audience |
UFO enthusiasts
ⓘ
families ⓘ tourists ⓘ |
| category |
Festivals in Oregon
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Tourist attractions in Yamhill County, Oregon ⓘ UFO festivals in the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| culturalSignificance |
celebration of local UFO history
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regional tourist attraction ⓘ |
| eventType |
costume contest
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expert talks ⓘ family activities ⓘ live entertainment ⓘ panel discussions ⓘ parade ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
Q&A sessions with experts
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alien-themed costume contest ⓘ costume parade ⓘ food and drink events ⓘ lectures by UFO researchers ⓘ vendor booths ⓘ |
| hasParadeTheme |
aliens
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science fiction characters ⓘ spaceships ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
1950 Trent UFO sighting
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McMinnville UFO photographs ⓘ |
| isTourismDriverFor | McMinnville, Oregon ⓘ |
| location | McMinnville, Oregon ⓘ |
| name | UFO Festival ⓘ |
| state | Oregon ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
UFO sightings
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conspiracy theories related to UFOs ⓘ extraterrestrial life ⓘ unidentified flying objects ⓘ |
| thematicFocus |
UFOs
ⓘ
extraterrestrial lore ⓘ |
| typicalMonthHeld | May ⓘ |
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: UFO Festival Description of subject: The UFO Festival is an annual celebration in McMinnville, Oregon, featuring parades, costume contests, expert talks, and other events centered on UFOs and extraterrestrial lore.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
city of McMinnville, Oregon
linked to: UFO Festival
linked to: UFO Festival
linked to: UFO Festival
subject linked to:
UFO Festival
subject linked to:
UFO Festival
linked to: UFO Festival