Shawwal
E157923
Shawwal is the tenth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, notable for beginning with the Eid al-Fitr celebration that marks the end of Ramadan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shawwal canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1324341 — 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: Shawwal Context triple: [Ramadan, precedes, Shawwal]
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A.
Dhu al-Qadah
Dhu al-Qadah is the eleventh month of the Islamic lunar calendar, traditionally regarded as one of the four sacred months in which warfare is forbidden.
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B.
Dhu al-Hijjah
Dhu al-Hijjah is the twelfth and final month of the Islamic lunar calendar, known for encompassing the major pilgrimage rites and the festival of Eid al-Adha.
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C.
Muharram
Muharram is the first month of the Islamic lunar calendar, regarded as one of the four sacred months and especially significant to Shia Muslims for the commemoration of Ashura.
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D.
Eid al-Fitr
Eid al-Fitr is a major Islamic festival that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan with communal prayers, feasting, charity, and celebration.
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E.
Ramadan
Ramadan is the Islamic holy month of fasting, prayer, reflection, and community observed annually by Muslims worldwide.
- 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: Shawwal Target entity description: Shawwal is the tenth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, notable for beginning with the Eid al-Fitr celebration that marks the end of Ramadan.
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A.
Dhu al-Qadah
Dhu al-Qadah is the eleventh month of the Islamic lunar calendar, traditionally regarded as one of the four sacred months in which warfare is forbidden.
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B.
Dhu al-Hijjah
Dhu al-Hijjah is the twelfth and final month of the Islamic lunar calendar, known for encompassing the major pilgrimage rites and the festival of Eid al-Adha.
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C.
Muharram
Muharram is the first month of the Islamic lunar calendar, regarded as one of the four sacred months and especially significant to Shia Muslims for the commemoration of Ashura.
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D.
Eid al-Fitr
Eid al-Fitr is a major Islamic festival that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan with communal prayers, feasting, charity, and celebration.
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E.
Ramadan
Ramadan is the Islamic holy month of fasting, prayer, reflection, and community observed annually by Muslims worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lunar month
ⓘ
month of the Islamic calendar ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Eid al-Fitr
ⓘ
six voluntary fasts after Ramadan ⓘ |
| beginsWith | Eid al-Fitr ⓘ |
| calendarEra | Anno Hegirae (AH) ⓘ |
| calendarType | lunar ⓘ |
| considered | month of celebration after Ramadan ⓘ |
| determinedBy | new moon sighting ⓘ |
| follows | Ramadan ⓘ |
| hasCulturalPractices |
family visits after Eid al-Fitr
ⓘ
festive meals after Ramadan ⓘ |
| hasFastingPractice | six days of Shawwal ⓘ |
| hasFirstDayHolidayIn | many Muslim-majority countries ⓘ |
| hasLength | 29 or 30 days ⓘ |
| hasReligiousSignificanceIn | Islam ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfFasting | nafl (supererogatory) fasting ⓘ |
| languageNameArabic | شَوَّال ⓘ |
| linkedTo | end of zakat al-fitr obligation ⓘ |
| marks | end of Ramadan fasting ⓘ |
| occursIn | Hijri year ⓘ |
| partOf | Islamic lunar calendar ⓘ |
| positionInIslamicCalendar | 10 ⓘ |
| precedes | Dhu al-Qadah ⓘ |
| religiousMeritBelief | fasting six days equals fasting the whole year (by reward) ⓘ |
| religiousRulingSource | Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) ⓘ |
| timezoneBasis | Islamic lunar sightings ⓘ |
| transliteration | Shawwāl ⓘ |
| usedBy | Muslims worldwide ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Islamic legal contracts and records
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dating Islamic historical events ⓘ |
| usedIn | Islamic religious observances ⓘ |
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: Shawwal Description of subject: Shawwal is the tenth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, notable for beginning with the Eid al-Fitr celebration that marks the end of Ramadan.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.