Janmashtami
E20135
Janmashtami is a major Hindu festival celebrating the birth of Lord Krishna, observed with fasting, devotional singing, and night-long vigils.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T152514 — 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: Janmashtami Context triple: [Hinduism, hasFestival, Janmashtami]
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A.
Diwali
Diwali is a major Hindu festival of lights celebrating the victory of good over evil and light over darkness, marked by prayers, feasts, and fireworks.
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B.
Navaratri
Navaratri is a major Hindu festival of nine nights dedicated to the worship of the Divine Mother in her various forms, celebrated with fasting, prayers, music, dance, and cultural rituals.
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C.
Holi
Holi is a major Hindu spring festival known as the "festival of colors," celebrated with vibrant powders, water, music, and communal joy to mark the victory of good over evil and the arrival of spring.
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D.
Gandhi Jayanti
Gandhi Jayanti is an annual Indian national holiday observed on October 2nd to honor the birth and legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, celebrating his role in the country’s nonviolent struggle for independence.
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E.
Krishna
Krishna is a major Hindu deity revered as the eighth avatar of Vishnu and celebrated for his roles as a divine lover, charioteer, and teacher in texts like the Bhagavad Gita and the Mahabharata.
- 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: Janmashtami Target entity description: Janmashtami is a major Hindu festival celebrating the birth of Lord Krishna, observed with fasting, devotional singing, and night-long vigils.
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A.
Diwali
Diwali is a major Hindu festival of lights celebrating the victory of good over evil and light over darkness, marked by prayers, feasts, and fireworks.
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B.
Navaratri
Navaratri is a major Hindu festival of nine nights dedicated to the worship of the Divine Mother in her various forms, celebrated with fasting, prayers, music, dance, and cultural rituals.
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C.
Holi
Holi is a major Hindu spring festival known as the "festival of colors," celebrated with vibrant powders, water, music, and communal joy to mark the victory of good over evil and the arrival of spring.
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D.
Gandhi Jayanti
Gandhi Jayanti is an annual Indian national holiday observed on October 2nd to honor the birth and legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, celebrating his role in the country’s nonviolent struggle for independence.
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E.
Krishna
Krishna is a major Hindu deity revered as the eighth avatar of Vishnu and celebrated for his roles as a divine lover, charioteer, and teacher in texts like the Bhagavad Gita and the Mahabharata.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu festival
ⓘ
religious observance ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Janmashtami
ⓘ
surface form:
Gokulashtami
Janmashtami ⓘ
surface form:
Krishna Janmashtami
Janmashtami ⓘ
surface form:
Krishnashtami
Janmashtami ⓘ
surface form:
Sri Krishna Jayanti
|
| associatedAvatar | eighth avatar of Vishnu ⓘ |
| associatedDeity | Vishnu ⓘ |
| calendarType | lunar calendar ⓘ |
| celebratesEvent | birth of Krishna ⓘ |
| culturalEvent |
Dahi Handi
ⓘ
surface form:
Dahi Handi human pyramid competition
|
| fastingType |
nirjala fast
ⓘ
phalahar fast ⓘ |
| foodTradition |
butter offerings
ⓘ
milk-based sweets ⓘ panjiri ⓘ |
| honors | Krishna ⓘ |
| linkedText |
Bhagavata Purana
ⓘ
Harivamsa ⓘ Vishnu Purana ⓘ |
| majorRitual |
Dahi Handi
ⓘ
Rasa Lila performances ⓘ decorating Krishna temples ⓘ devotional singing ⓘ fasting ⓘ midnight worship of Krishna ⓘ night-long vigil ⓘ offering sweets to Krishna ⓘ reading of Bhagavata Purana ⓘ |
| midnightSignificance | time of Krishna's birth ⓘ |
| observedBy |
Hinduism
ⓘ
surface form:
Hindus
|
| observedIn |
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
ⓘ
surface form:
Bangladesh
Fiji ⓘ British Guiana ⓘ
surface form:
Guyana
India ⓘ Mauritius ⓘ Nepal ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ Suriname ⓘ Trinidad and Tobago ⓘ global Hindu diaspora ⓘ |
| occursInMonth |
August
ⓘ
September ⓘ |
| occursOn | eighth day of Krishna Paksha in Bhadrapada ⓘ |
| publicHolidayInPartsOf |
India
ⓘ
Nepal ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
divine love
ⓘ
victory of good over evil ⓘ |
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: Janmashtami Description of subject: Janmashtami is a major Hindu festival celebrating the birth of Lord Krishna, observed with fasting, devotional singing, and night-long vigils.
Referenced by (60)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Krishna Janmashtami
this entity surface form:
Krishna Janmashtami