Reading Festival
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The Reading Festival is one of the UK’s most famous annual rock and alternative music festivals, held over the August bank holiday weekend and known for its major international headliners and lively camping culture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reading Festival canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1049609 — 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: Reading Festival Context triple: [Reading, hostsEvent, Reading Festival]
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A.
Isle of Wight Festival
The Isle of Wight Festival is a major British music festival, famous for its historic late-1960s events featuring iconic rock acts and its modern revival as a large annual live music gathering.
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B.
Big Ears Festival
Big Ears Festival is an annual avant-garde music and arts festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, known for its adventurous programming that spans experimental, classical, jazz, and indie genres.
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C.
Open'er Festival
Open'er Festival is one of Poland's largest annual music and arts festivals, held on the Baltic coast and known for its diverse international lineup and large-scale open-air performances.
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D.
Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza is a major annual music festival featuring diverse genres and large-scale performances, held in Chicago.
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E.
Bath Festival
Bath Festival is a long-running arts and music festival in the city of Bath, England, featuring a diverse program of concerts, performances, and cultural events.
- 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: Reading Festival Target entity description: The Reading Festival is one of the UK’s most famous annual rock and alternative music festivals, held over the August bank holiday weekend and known for its major international headliners and lively camping culture.
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A.
Isle of Wight Festival
The Isle of Wight Festival is a major British music festival, famous for its historic late-1960s events featuring iconic rock acts and its modern revival as a large annual live music gathering.
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B.
Big Ears Festival
Big Ears Festival is an annual avant-garde music and arts festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, known for its adventurous programming that spans experimental, classical, jazz, and indie genres.
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C.
Open'er Festival
Open'er Festival is one of Poland's largest annual music and arts festivals, held on the Baltic coast and known for its diverse international lineup and large-scale open-air performances.
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D.
Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza is a major annual music festival featuring diverse genres and large-scale performances, held in Chicago.
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E.
Bath Festival
Bath Festival is a long-running arts and music festival in the city of Bath, England, featuring a diverse program of concerts, performances, and cultural events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music festival
ⓘ
rock festival ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Reading Rock Festival ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dayPattern | Friday to Sunday ⓘ |
| formerlyOrganisedBy | Mean Fiddler Music Group ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
indie rock ⓘ metal ⓘ punk rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
camping
ⓘ
food and drink stalls ⓘ late-night entertainment ⓘ |
| hasAudience | international ⓘ |
| hasAudienceType | youth-oriented ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
camping
ⓘ
camping culture ⓘ headline performances ⓘ live music ⓘ multiple stages ⓘ |
| hasStage |
Alternative Stage
ⓘ
BBC Introducing Stage ⓘ Festival Republic Stage ⓘ Main Stage ⓘ NME/Radio 1 Stage ⓘ |
| heldAt | Richfield Avenue ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Berkshire
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Reading ⓘ |
| musicFocus | rock and alternative music ⓘ |
| musicType | live band performances ⓘ |
| notableFor |
lively audience atmosphere
ⓘ
major international headliners ⓘ |
| organisedBy | Festival Republic ⓘ |
| pairedWith | Leeds Festival ⓘ |
| precededBy | National Jazz Festival ⓘ |
| region | England ⓘ |
| significance | one of the UK’s most famous music festivals ⓘ |
| sisterEvent | Leeds Festival ⓘ |
| startYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| ticketType |
day tickets
ⓘ
weekend tickets ⓘ |
| typicalDuration | three days ⓘ |
| typicalMonth | August ⓘ |
| typicalWeekend | August bank holiday weekend ⓘ |
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: Reading Festival Description of subject: The Reading Festival is one of the UK’s most famous annual rock and alternative music festivals, held over the August bank holiday weekend and known for its major international headliners and lively camping culture.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Reading, Berkshire