Hebrew calendar
E2294
The Hebrew calendar is a lunisolar calendar used primarily for Jewish religious observances, holidays, and the determination of ceremonial dates.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hebrew calendar canonical | 57 |
| Jewish liturgical calendar | 4 |
| Jewish calendar | 3 |
| lunisolar Hebrew calendar | 2 |
| Hebrew civil calendar | 1 |
| Jewish liturgical year | 1 |
| Jewish religious calendar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T30473 — 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: Hebrew calendar Context triple: [Jews, followsCalendar, Hebrew calendar]
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A.
Judaism
Judaism is one of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions, centered on the covenant between God and the Jewish people and expressed through the Hebrew Bible, law, and tradition.
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B.
Jews
Jews are an ethnoreligious group originating from the ancient Israelites and Hebrews, historically associated with Judaism and a shared cultural, religious, and national identity.
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C.
Easter
Easter is the principal Christian festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, observed with religious services and various cultural traditions worldwide.
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D.
Kimigayo
Kimigayo is the national anthem of Japan, known for its extremely short length and lyrics derived from a Heian-period waka poem expressing wishes for the emperor’s enduring reign.
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E.
Pentecost
Pentecost is a major Christian feast commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles, often regarded as the "birthday" of the Church.
- 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: Hebrew calendar Target entity description: The Hebrew calendar is a lunisolar calendar used primarily for Jewish religious observances, holidays, and the determination of ceremonial dates.
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A.
Judaism
Judaism is one of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions, centered on the covenant between God and the Jewish people and expressed through the Hebrew Bible, law, and tradition.
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B.
Jews
Jews are an ethnoreligious group originating from the ancient Israelites and Hebrews, historically associated with Judaism and a shared cultural, religious, and national identity.
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C.
Easter
Easter is the principal Christian festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, observed with religious services and various cultural traditions worldwide.
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D.
Kimigayo
Kimigayo is the national anthem of Japan, known for its extremely short length and lyrics derived from a Heian-period waka poem expressing wishes for the emperor’s enduring reign.
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E.
Pentecost
Pentecost is a major Christian feast commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles, often regarded as the "birthday" of the Church.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (67)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
calendar system
ⓘ
lunisolar calendar ⓘ |
| alignsWith |
lunar month
ⓘ
solar year ⓘ |
| calculationBasis |
astronomical rules
ⓘ
rabbinic rules ⓘ |
| coexistsWith |
Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
ⓘ
surface form:
Gregorian calendar
|
| countsYearsFrom | Anno Mundi ⓘ |
| epochDescription | traditional date of creation ⓘ |
| followsCycle | Metonic cycle ⓘ |
| hasAverageMonthLength | about 29.5 days ⓘ |
| hasBiblicalNewYear | month of Nisan ⓘ |
| hasCommonYearMonthCount | 12 ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
days
ⓘ
months ⓘ weeks ⓘ years ⓘ |
| hasDayOfRest | Shabbat ⓘ |
| hasDayStart | sunset ⓘ |
| hasEpoch | Hebrew calendar epoch ⓘ |
| hasEraName | Anno Mundi ⓘ |
| hasHolidayCycleStart | month of Tishrei ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasLeapMonth | Adar I ⓘ |
| hasLeapYearFrequency | 7 leap years in 19-year cycle ⓘ |
| hasLeapYearMonthCount | 13 ⓘ |
| hasMonth |
Adar
ⓘ
Adar I ⓘ Adar I ⓘ
surface form:
Adar II
Av ⓘ Cheshvan ⓘ Elul ⓘ Iyar ⓘ Kislev ⓘ Nisan ⓘ Shevat ⓘ Sivan ⓘ Tammuz ⓘ Tevet ⓘ Tishrei ⓘ |
| hasMonthType |
deficient month
ⓘ
full month ⓘ regular month ⓘ |
| hasVariableMonth |
Cheshvan
ⓘ
Kislev ⓘ |
| hasWeekLength | 7 days ⓘ |
| hasYearType |
complete year
ⓘ
deficient year ⓘ regular year ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Jewish law
ⓘ
Jewish liturgy ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Jews
ⓘ
surface form:
Jewish people
|
| usedFor |
Jewish liturgical calendar
ⓘ
Jewish religious observances ⓘ Torah reading cycle ⓘ determining Jewish holidays ⓘ yahrzeit calculation ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Israel
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Israel (religious context)
|
| usedToDetermine |
Hanukkah date
ⓘ
Omer counting period ⓘ Passover date ⓘ Purim date ⓘ Rosh Hashanah date ⓘ Shavuot date ⓘ Sukkot date ⓘ Yom Kippur date ⓘ |
| yearZero | not used ⓘ |
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: Hebrew calendar Description of subject: The Hebrew calendar is a lunisolar calendar used primarily for Jewish religious observances, holidays, and the determination of ceremonial dates.
Referenced by (69)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Shemini Atzeret
this entity surface form:
Jewish calendar
this entity surface form:
Jewish liturgical calendar