Patriots’ Day

E13006

commemorative observance public holiday state holiday

Patriots’ Day is a regional holiday in Massachusetts and Maine commemorating the opening battles of the American Revolutionary War, observed each April with events including the Boston Marathon.

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All labels observed (8)

Label	Occurrences
Patriots’ Day canonical	10
Patriots Day	3
Evacuation Day (Suffolk County, Massachusetts)	1
Patriots Day (film)	1
Patriots' Day	1
Patriots’ Day Boston Marathon	1
Patriot’s Day	1
Patriot’s Day (holiday in other U.S. states and contexts)	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	commemorative observance ⓘ public holiday ⓘ state holiday ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Patriots’ Day ⓘ surface form: Patriots Day Patriots’ Day ⓘ surface form: Patriot’s Day
appliesToJurisdiction	Massachusetts ⓘ surface form: Commonwealth of Massachusetts Maine ⓘ surface form: State of Maine
associatedEvent	Boston Marathon ⓘ
associatedWith	Boston Red Sox home game at Fenway Park ⓘ morning Major League Baseball game in Boston ⓘ
commemorates	Patriot militia in the American Revolution ⓘ Paul Revere’s ride ⓘ Samuel Prescott’s ride ⓘ William Dawes’s ride ⓘ opening battles of the American Revolutionary War ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
dayOfWeek	Monday ⓘ
follows	Easter ⓘ surface form: Easter Sunday Palm Sunday ⓘ
hasCause	Battle of Menotomy ⓘ Battles of Lexington and Concord ⓘ
hasMainCelebrationLocation	Arlington, Massachusetts ⓘ Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ Concord, Massachusetts ⓘ Lexington, Massachusetts ⓘ
hasTraditionalActivity	Boston Marathon ⓘ Patriots’ Day Parade in Concord ⓘ Patriots’ Day Parade in Lexington ⓘ Patriots’ Day reenactment at Lexington Green ⓘ Patriots’ Day reenactment at Old North Bridge ⓘ educational programs about the American Revolution ⓘ flag-raising ceremonies ⓘ historical reenactments of the Battles of Lexington and Concord ⓘ patriotic speeches ⓘ
inception	1894 ⓘ
legislatedBy	Massachusetts General Court ⓘ
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	New England ⓘ
observedIn	Maine ⓘ Massachusetts ⓘ North Dakota ⓘ surface form: North Dakota (as a state observance) Wisconsin (as a school observance day) ⓘ
occursOn	third Monday in April (Massachusetts and Maine) ⓘ
officialName	Patriots’ Day self-link ⓘ
previouslyOccurredOn	April 19 ⓘ
proposedBy	Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge ⓘ
relatedTo	American Revolutionary War ⓘ Battles of Lexington and Concord ⓘ surface form: Lexington and Concord Patriots’ Day self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Patriot’s Day (holiday in other U.S. states and contexts)
replaced	Fast Day (Massachusetts) ⓘ
startTime	1894 ⓘ
theme	American patriotism ⓘ

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: Patriots’ Day
Description of subject: Patriots’ Day is a regional holiday in Massachusetts and Maine commemorating the opening battles of the American Revolutionary War, observed each April with events including the Boston Marathon.

Referenced by (19)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Boston Marathon → occursOn → Patriots’ Day ⓘ

Siege of Boston → commemoratedBy → Patriots’ Day ⓘ

this entity surface form: Evacuation Day (Suffolk County, Massachusetts)

Patriots’ Day → officialName → Patriots’ Day self-link ⓘ

Patriots’ Day → alsoKnownAs → Patriots’ Day ⓘ

this entity surface form: Patriot’s Day

Patriots’ Day → alsoKnownAs → Patriots’ Day ⓘ

this entity surface form: Patriots Day

Patriots’ Day → relatedTo → Patriots’ Day self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Patriot’s Day (holiday in other U.S. states and contexts)

Heartbreak Hill → eventAssociation → Patriots’ Day ⓘ

this entity surface form: Patriots’ Day Boston Marathon

Mark Wahlberg → notableWork → Patriots’ Day ⓘ

this entity surface form: Patriots Day

Peter Berg → directed → Patriots’ Day ⓘ

this entity surface form: Patriots Day (film)

Patriots’ Day Parade in Concord → relatedTo → Patriots’ Day ⓘ

Patriots’ Day Parade in Concord → observedOn → Patriots’ Day ⓘ

Patriots’ Day Parade in Lexington → relatedTo → Patriots’ Day ⓘ

Patriots’ Day Parade in Lexington → occursOnOrAround → Patriots’ Day ⓘ

Fast Day (Massachusetts) → replacedBy → Patriots’ Day ⓘ

Fast Day (Massachusetts) → supersededBy → Patriots’ Day ⓘ

Fast Day (Massachusetts) → commemoratedBySuccessorHoliday → Patriots’ Day ⓘ

Fast Day (Massachusetts) → hasSuccessor → Patriots’ Day ⓘ

Bennington Battle Day → relatedTo → Patriots’ Day ⓘ

this entity surface form: Patriots' Day

rachelbrosnahan → notableWork → Patriots’ Day ⓘ

subject surface form: Rachel Brosnahan

this entity surface form: Patriots Day