Tet holiday
E116516
Tet holiday is the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, the country’s most important and widely celebrated festival marking the arrival of spring and a time for family reunions and ancestral worship.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tết Nguyên Đán | 2 |
| Vietnamese New Year | 2 |
| Lunar New Year (Tết Nguyên Đán) | 1 |
| Lunar New Year (Tết) period | 1 |
| Tet (Lunar New Year) | 1 |
| Tet festival | 1 |
| Tet holiday canonical | 1 |
| Tết | 1 |
| Tết Nguyên Đán (Vietnamese Lunar New Year) | 1 |
| Vietnam (as Tết Nguyên Đán) | 1 |
| Vietnamese Lunar New Year | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T980373 — 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: Tet holiday Context triple: [Tet Offensive, namedAfter, Tet holiday]
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A.
Têt
The Têt is a river in southern France that flows through the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the Occitanie region before reaching the Mediterranean Sea.
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B.
Naha Hari (dragon boat festival)
Naha Hari is a traditional Okinawan dragon boat festival featuring colorful boat races, music, and cultural celebrations held annually in Naha, Japan.
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C.
Double Ten Day
Double Ten Day is Taiwan’s national day, celebrated annually on October 10 to mark the start of the 1911 revolution that led to the founding of the Republic of China.
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D.
Festival of Lights
Festival of Lights is a common English name for Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple and the miracle of the oil.
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E.
Vesak
Vesak is the most important Buddhist festival, commemorating the birth, enlightenment, and death (parinirvana) of Gautama Buddha.
- 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: Tet holiday Target entity description: Tet holiday is the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, the country’s most important and widely celebrated festival marking the arrival of spring and a time for family reunions and ancestral worship.
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A.
Têt
The Têt is a river in southern France that flows through the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the Occitanie region before reaching the Mediterranean Sea.
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B.
Naha Hari (dragon boat festival)
Naha Hari is a traditional Okinawan dragon boat festival featuring colorful boat races, music, and cultural celebrations held annually in Naha, Japan.
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C.
Double Ten Day
Double Ten Day is Taiwan’s national day, celebrated annually on October 10 to mark the start of the 1911 revolution that led to the founding of the Republic of China.
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D.
Festival of Lights
Festival of Lights is a common English name for Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple and the miracle of the oil.
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E.
Vesak
Vesak is the most important Buddhist festival, commemorating the birth, enlightenment, and death (parinirvana) of Gautama Buddha.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Vietnamese New Year
ⓘ
cultural tradition ⓘ festival ⓘ public holiday ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Tet holiday
ⓘ
surface form:
Tết
Tet holiday ⓘ
surface form:
Tết Nguyên Đán
Tet holiday ⓘ
surface form:
Vietnamese Lunar New Year
|
| associatedColor |
gold
ⓘ
red ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
lunar new year celebrations
ⓘ
spring festival ⓘ |
| country |
Viet Nam
ⓘ
surface form:
Vietnam
|
| culturalScope | celebrated nationwide in Vietnam ⓘ |
| custom |
decorating homes with flowers
ⓘ
family reunion dinner ⓘ first footing (xông đất) ⓘ giving lucky money ⓘ home altar offerings ⓘ house cleaning before new year ⓘ praying at pagodas and temples ⓘ visiting ancestors' graves ⓘ visiting relatives and friends ⓘ |
| duration | several days ⓘ |
| followsCalendar | lunar calendar ⓘ |
| governmentStatus | official public holiday in Vietnam ⓘ |
| hasZodiacElement | Vietnamese zodiac animal of the year ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Spring Festival
ⓘ
surface form:
Chinese Lunar New Year
|
| mainDay | first day of the lunar new year ⓘ |
| marks | arrival of spring ⓘ |
| preparationPeriod | weeks before the new year ⓘ |
| religiousAspect |
Buddhist customs
ⓘ
ancestor veneration ⓘ |
| significance |
most important Vietnamese festival
ⓘ
time for ancestral worship ⓘ time for family reunions ⓘ |
| symbol |
apricot blossoms
ⓘ
kumquat trees ⓘ peach blossoms ⓘ red envelopes ⓘ |
| theme |
family unity
ⓘ
good fortune ⓘ prosperity ⓘ renewal ⓘ |
| traditionalFood |
bánh chưng
ⓘ
bánh tét ⓘ giò chả (Vietnamese sausage) ⓘ mứt (candied fruits) ⓘ pickled onions ⓘ |
| typicalMonth |
February
ⓘ
January ⓘ |
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: Tet holiday Description of subject: Tet holiday is the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, the country’s most important and widely celebrated festival marking the arrival of spring and a time for family reunions and ancestral worship.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Vietnamese culture
this entity surface form:
Tết Nguyên Đán
this entity surface form:
Vietnamese New Year
this entity surface form:
Tết Nguyên Đán (Vietnamese Lunar New Year)
this entity surface form:
Tết Nguyên Đán
this entity surface form:
Vietnamese Lunar New Year
this entity surface form:
Tết
this entity surface form:
Tet (Lunar New Year)
this entity surface form:
Vietnamese New Year
this entity surface form:
Lunar New Year (Tết) period
this entity surface form:
Lunar New Year (Tết Nguyên Đán)
this entity surface form:
Tet festival
this entity surface form:
Vietnam (as Tết Nguyên Đán)