Pawukon
E122009
Pawukon is a complex traditional Balinese calendrical system composed of multiple concurrent week cycles used to determine ritual, ceremonial, and agricultural timings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pawukon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1063300 — 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: Pawukon Context triple: [Balinese, traditionalCalendar, Pawukon]
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A.
Pucikwar
Pucikwar is an extinct Great Andamanese language once spoken by the Pucikwar people of the Andaman Islands in India.
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B.
Jagjaguwar
Jagjaguwar is an American independent record label known for releasing critically acclaimed indie and experimental music, including albums by Bon Iver.
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C.
Shenwa
Shenwa is a Zenati Berber language spoken by a small community in the Chenoua (Shenwa) region of northern Algeria.
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D.
Rakai Pikatan
Rakai Pikatan was a 9th-century Javanese king of the Medang (Mataram) Kingdom, known for consolidating royal power in Central Java and patronizing major Hindu temple construction.
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E.
Roro
Roro is the ISO 15924 script code assigned to the undeciphered Rongorongo script of Easter Island.
- 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: Pawukon Target entity description: Pawukon is a complex traditional Balinese calendrical system composed of multiple concurrent week cycles used to determine ritual, ceremonial, and agricultural timings.
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A.
Pucikwar
Pucikwar is an extinct Great Andamanese language once spoken by the Pucikwar people of the Andaman Islands in India.
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B.
Jagjaguwar
Jagjaguwar is an American independent record label known for releasing critically acclaimed indie and experimental music, including albums by Bon Iver.
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C.
Shenwa
Shenwa is a Zenati Berber language spoken by a small community in the Chenoua (Shenwa) region of northern Algeria.
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D.
Rakai Pikatan
Rakai Pikatan was a 9th-century Javanese king of the Medang (Mataram) Kingdom, known for consolidating royal power in Central Java and patronizing major Hindu temple construction.
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E.
Roro
Roro is the ISO 15924 script code assigned to the undeciphered Rongorongo script of Easter Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Balinese calendar system
ⓘ
traditional calendar ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Balinese Hindu rituals ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| basedOn | concurrent week cycles ⓘ |
| calendarType |
non-lunar cycle
ⓘ
non-solar cycle ⓘ |
| coexistsWith |
Balinese calendar
ⓘ
surface form:
Balinese Saka calendar
|
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | high ⓘ |
| cycleDurationInDays | 210 ⓘ |
| determines |
ceremonial days
ⓘ
days for certain agricultural activities ⓘ temple festival dates ⓘ |
| distinctFrom |
Odia calendar
ⓘ
surface form:
Saka calendar
|
| eachWukuLengthInDays | 7 ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
1-day week (eka wara)
ⓘ
10-day week (dasa wara) ⓘ 2-day week (dwi wara) ⓘ 3-day week (tri wara) ⓘ 4-day week (catur wara) ⓘ 5-day week (panca wara) ⓘ 6-day week (sad wara) ⓘ 7-day week (sapta wara) ⓘ 8-day week (asta wara) ⓘ 9-day week (sanga wara) ⓘ |
| hasCycleLength | 210 days ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfWeekSystems | 10 ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfWuku | 30 ⓘ |
| hasStructure | overlapping week cycles ⓘ |
| historicalUse | royal and temple administration ⓘ |
| influences |
Balinese daily life
ⓘ
Balinese naming of days ⓘ |
| languageContext | Balinese language ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Balinese priests
ⓘ
traditional calendar experts ⓘ |
| originRegion |
Java (Indonesian island)
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surface form:
Java and Bali
|
| partOf | Balinese Hindu culture ⓘ |
| region |
Bali
ⓘ
surface form:
Island of Bali
|
| relatedTo | Javanese Wetonan system ⓘ |
| repeatsAfter | 210 days ⓘ |
| timeUnit | wuku ⓘ |
| usedBy | Balinese people ⓘ |
| usedFor |
agricultural timing
ⓘ
ceremonial timing ⓘ ritual timing ⓘ |
| usedIn | Bali ⓘ |
| usedToSelect | auspicious days ⓘ |
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: Pawukon Description of subject: Pawukon is a complex traditional Balinese calendrical system composed of multiple concurrent week cycles used to determine ritual, ceremonial, and agricultural timings.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.