Frimaire
E371731
Frimaire is the third month of the French Republican Calendar, corresponding roughly to late November and early December and associated with frost and early winter.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frimaire canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3590412 — 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: Frimaire Context triple: [French Republican Calendar, monthName3, Frimaire]
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A.
Kislev
Kislev is a late autumn/early winter month in the Hebrew calendar traditionally associated with the festival of Hanukkah.
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B.
Candlemas
Candlemas is a Christian feast day observed on February 2 that commemorates the presentation of Jesus at the Temple and the purification of the Virgin Mary, traditionally marked by the blessing of candles.
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C.
Mardi
"Mardi" is an 1849 novel by Herman Melville, known as his first major foray into philosophical and allegorical fiction set in a fantastical South Seas archipelago.
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D.
MARDI
MARDI is a descent imaging camera on NASA's Curiosity rover that captured high-resolution video of the rover's landing on Mars and helps document the geology of its landing site.
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E.
Tevet
Tevet is a winter month in the Hebrew calendar, typically falling in December–January and associated with several Jewish fasts and historical commemorations.
- 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: Frimaire Target entity description: Frimaire is the third month of the French Republican Calendar, corresponding roughly to late November and early December and associated with frost and early winter.
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A.
Kislev
Kislev is a late autumn/early winter month in the Hebrew calendar traditionally associated with the festival of Hanukkah.
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B.
Candlemas
Candlemas is a Christian feast day observed on February 2 that commemorates the presentation of Jesus at the Temple and the purification of the Virgin Mary, traditionally marked by the blessing of candles.
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C.
Mardi
"Mardi" is an 1849 novel by Herman Melville, known as his first major foray into philosophical and allegorical fiction set in a fantastical South Seas archipelago.
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D.
MARDI
MARDI is a descent imaging camera on NASA's Curiosity rover that captured high-resolution video of the rover's landing on Mars and helps document the geology of its landing site.
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E.
Tevet
Tevet is a winter month in the Hebrew calendar, typically falling in December–January and associated with several Jewish fasts and historical commemorations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French Republican Calendar month
ⓘ
month ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
early winter
ⓘ
frost ⓘ |
| calendarEra |
French Revolution
ⓘ
surface form:
French Revolutionary era
|
| calendarType | solar calendar ⓘ |
| correspondsApproximatelyTo |
early December
ⓘ
late November ⓘ |
| dayStructure | 3 décades of 10 days each ⓘ |
| endDateFirstUseGregorian | 21 December 1793 ⓘ |
| etymology | derived from French word "frimas" meaning frost ⓘ |
| follows | Brumaire ⓘ |
| hasDayNamesPattern | each day named after plants, animals, or tools ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasTheme | rural and seasonal phenomena ⓘ |
| introducedBy | French First Republic ⓘ |
| introducedByDecreeOf | National Convention ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 1793 ⓘ |
| namedBy |
Fabre d’Églantine
ⓘ
surface form:
Fabre d'Églantine
|
| numberOfDays | 30 ⓘ |
| occursInHemisphere | Northern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| partOf | French Republican Calendar ⓘ |
| positionInCalendar | 3 ⓘ |
| precedes | Nivôse ⓘ |
| replaced | Gregorian calendar months November and December (partially) ⓘ |
| season | late autumn to early winter ⓘ |
| startDateFirstUseGregorian | 22 November 1793 ⓘ |
| usedIn | France ⓘ |
| usedUntil | 1805 ⓘ |
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: Frimaire Description of subject: Frimaire is the third month of the French Republican Calendar, corresponding roughly to late November and early December and associated with frost and early winter.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.