Lilac Festival
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The Lilac Festival is an annual spring celebration in Lombard, Illinois, featuring blooming lilacs, parades, garden tours, and community events.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lilac Time festival | 3 |
| Lilac Festival canonical | 2 |
| Lilac Time Festival | 1 |
| Lombard Lilac Festival | 1 |
| annual Lilac Festival | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1955803 — 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: Lilac Festival Context triple: [Lombard, Illinois, knownFor, Lilac Festival]
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A.
Daffodil Festival
The Daffodil Festival is an annual spring celebration in Meriden, Connecticut, featuring blooming daffodils, parades, live entertainment, food vendors, and community activities.
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B.
Orange City Tulip Festival
The Orange City Tulip Festival is an annual spring celebration in Orange City, Iowa, featuring Dutch heritage traditions, tulip displays, parades, and cultural performances.
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C.
Mackinac Island Lilac Festival
The Mackinac Island Lilac Festival is an annual early-summer celebration on Michigan’s Mackinac Island featuring parades, garden tours, and events centered around the island’s historic and abundant lilac trees.
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D.
Tulip Time Festival
The Tulip Time Festival is an annual spring celebration in Holland, Michigan, featuring millions of blooming tulips, Dutch heritage parades, traditional costumes, and cultural events.
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E.
Tulip Time Festival
Tulip Time Festival is an annual Dutch heritage and tulip-themed celebration in Pella, Iowa, featuring parades, traditional costumes, 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: Lilac Festival Target entity description: The Lilac Festival is an annual spring celebration in Lombard, Illinois, featuring blooming lilacs, parades, garden tours, and community events.
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A.
Daffodil Festival
The Daffodil Festival is an annual spring celebration in Meriden, Connecticut, featuring blooming daffodils, parades, live entertainment, food vendors, and community activities.
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B.
Orange City Tulip Festival
The Orange City Tulip Festival is an annual spring celebration in Orange City, Iowa, featuring Dutch heritage traditions, tulip displays, parades, and cultural performances.
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C.
Mackinac Island Lilac Festival
The Mackinac Island Lilac Festival is an annual early-summer celebration on Michigan’s Mackinac Island featuring parades, garden tours, and events centered around the island’s historic and abundant lilac trees.
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D.
Tulip Time Festival
The Tulip Time Festival is an annual spring celebration in Holland, Michigan, featuring millions of blooming tulips, Dutch heritage parades, traditional costumes, and cultural events.
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E.
Tulip Time Festival
Tulip Time Festival is an annual Dutch heritage and tulip-themed celebration in Pella, Iowa, featuring parades, traditional costumes, and cultural events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
annual festival
ⓘ
community event ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Lilacia Park
ⓘ
lilac gardens ⓘ |
| attracts |
local residents
ⓘ
tourists ⓘ |
| category |
Festivals in Illinois
ⓘ
Spring festivals in the United States ⓘ Tourist attractions in DuPage County, Illinois ⓘ |
| celebrates | blooming lilacs ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasActivity |
community events
ⓘ
family activities ⓘ food vendors ⓘ garden tours ⓘ live entertainment ⓘ parade ⓘ |
| hasMainTheme |
gardening
ⓘ
lilac flowers ⓘ |
| hasParade | Lilac Parade ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
DuPage County, Illinois
ⓘ
Illinois ⓘ Lombard, Illinois ⓘ |
| organisedBy |
Village of Lombard
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surface form:
Village of Lombard (Illinois)
|
| promotes |
local businesses
ⓘ
local community ⓘ |
| recurs | annually ⓘ |
| season | spring ⓘ |
| typicalMonth | May ⓘ |
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: Lilac Festival Description of subject: The Lilac Festival is an annual spring celebration in Lombard, Illinois, featuring blooming lilacs, parades, garden tours, and community events.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lilac Time Festival
subject surface form:
Lombard, Illinois
this entity surface form:
annual Lilac Festival
this entity surface form:
Lombard Lilac Festival
this entity surface form:
Lilac Time festival
this entity surface form:
Lilac Time festival
this entity surface form:
Lilac Time festival