Straw Bear Festival

E249199

The Straw Bear Festival is a traditional English folk celebration in Whittlesey featuring a costumed “straw bear” paraded through the town with music, dancing, and other seasonal festivities.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Straw Bear Festival canonical 1
Straw Bear Festival Society 1

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf English folk custom
folk festival
associatedWith folk revival movement
harvest rituals
plough Monday customs
audience folk enthusiasts
local community
tourists
country United Kingdom
culturalOrigin English rural tradition
hasActivity Morris dancing
folk dancing
mumming
music
parade
pub performances
street procession
hasComponent Saturday procession
Sunday events
evening ceilidh
hasCostume straw bear costume
hasMainCharacter Straw Bear
hasMediaCoverage folk magazines
local press
regional television
hasSymbol straw bear
hasTheme agricultural tradition
seasonal celebration
winter custom
language English
location Cambridgeshire, England
surface form: Cambridgeshire

Whittlesey
mainVenue Whittlesey
surface form: Whittlesey town centre
notableTypeOf British calendar custom
occursAfter Christmas
occursBefore Candlemas
organisedBy Straw Bear Festival self-linksurface differs
surface form: Straw Bear Festival Society
region England
revivedIn 1980
status annual event
tourismAttraction yes
typicalTimeOfYear January
usesMaterial straw
usesMusicGenre folk music

How these facts were elicited

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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: Straw Bear Festival
Description of subject: The Straw Bear Festival is a traditional English folk celebration in Whittlesey featuring a costumed “straw bear” paraded through the town with music, dancing, and other seasonal festivities.

Referenced by (2)

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

Whittlesey knownFor Straw Bear Festival
Straw Bear Festival organisedBy Straw Bear Festival self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Straw Bear Festival Society