Nivôse
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Nivôse is the fourth month of the French Republican Calendar, corresponding roughly to late December and early January and associated with snow and winter.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nivôse canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3590413 — 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: Nivôse Context triple: [French Republican Calendar, monthName4, Nivôse]
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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.
Juin
Juin is the surname of Alphonse Juin, a prominent French general and Marshal of France during World War II.
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C.
Automne
Automne is a river in northern France that serves as a tributary of the Oise.
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D.
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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E.
Nisan
Nisan is the first month of the Hebrew religious year, traditionally associated with spring and the festival of Passover.
- 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: Nivôse Target entity description: Nivôse is the fourth month of the French Republican Calendar, corresponding roughly to late December and early January and associated with snow and 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.
Juin
Juin is the surname of Alphonse Juin, a prominent French general and Marshal of France during World War II.
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C.
Automne
Automne is a river in northern France that serves as a tributary of the Oise.
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D.
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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E.
Nisan
Nisan is the first month of the Hebrew religious year, traditionally associated with spring and the festival of Passover.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
calendar month
ⓘ
month of the French Republican Calendar ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
snow
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winter ⓘ |
| belongsToEra | French Revolution ⓘ |
| calendar | French Republican Calendar ⓘ |
| calendarType | revolutionary calendar ⓘ |
| correspondsRoughlyToGregorianPeriod | late December to early January ⓘ |
| dayLengthUnit | décade ⓘ |
| dividedInto | three décades ⓘ |
| endsNearGregorianDate | approximately 19 or 20 January ⓘ |
| etymology | derived from Latin word "nix" (genitive "nivis") meaning snow ⓘ |
| follows | Frimaire ⓘ |
| frenchRepublicanCalendarPosition | 4 ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristicWeatherAssociation | snowy conditions ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfDécades | 3 ⓘ |
| introducedBy | French National Convention ⓘ |
| introducedIn | 1793 ⓘ |
| languageOfName | French ⓘ |
| namedBy | Fabre d’Églantine ⓘ |
| numberOfDays | 30 ⓘ |
| positionInSeason | first month of winter in the French Republican Calendar ⓘ |
| precedes | Pluviôse ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Gregorian calendar months December and January ⓘ |
| season | winter ⓘ |
| startsNearGregorianDate | approximately 21 or 22 December ⓘ |
| themeOfDayNames | agricultural and natural products ⓘ |
| usedBetween | 1793 and 1805 ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | France ⓘ |
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: Nivôse Description of subject: Nivôse is the fourth month of the French Republican Calendar, corresponding roughly to late December and early January and associated with snow and winter.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.