Japanese traditional calendar
E381214
The Japanese traditional calendar is a lunisolar timekeeping system historically used in Japan, adapted from Chinese models and incorporating local festivals, seasonal markers, and era names tied to imperial reigns.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Japanese traditional calendar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3720634 — 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: Japanese traditional calendar Context triple: [traditional Chinese calendar, influenced, Japanese traditional calendar]
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A.
Javanese calendar
The Javanese calendar is a traditional lunisolar timekeeping system from Java that blends indigenous, Islamic, and Hindu-Buddhist elements and is used to mark cultural and religious events.
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B.
traditional Chinese calendar
The traditional Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar system that combines lunar months with solar terms to guide festivals, agriculture, and daily life in Chinese culture.
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C.
Badíʻ calendar
The Badíʻ calendar is the unique solar calendar of the Bahá'í Faith, structured around 19 months of 19 days each and anchored by Bahá'í holy days and astronomical events like the vernal equinox.
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D.
Assamese calendar
The Assamese calendar is a traditional lunisolar calendar used in Assam, India, to determine regional festivals, agricultural cycles, and cultural observances.
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E.
Hindu lunisolar calendar
The Hindu lunisolar calendar is a traditional timekeeping system used across the Indian subcontinent that combines lunar months with solar years to determine religious festivals, rituals, and regional New Year dates.
- 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: Japanese traditional calendar Target entity description: The Japanese traditional calendar is a lunisolar timekeeping system historically used in Japan, adapted from Chinese models and incorporating local festivals, seasonal markers, and era names tied to imperial reigns.
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A.
Javanese calendar
The Javanese calendar is a traditional lunisolar timekeeping system from Java that blends indigenous, Islamic, and Hindu-Buddhist elements and is used to mark cultural and religious events.
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B.
traditional Chinese calendar
The traditional Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar system that combines lunar months with solar terms to guide festivals, agriculture, and daily life in Chinese culture.
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C.
Badíʻ calendar
The Badíʻ calendar is the unique solar calendar of the Bahá'í Faith, structured around 19 months of 19 days each and anchored by Bahá'í holy days and astronomical events like the vernal equinox.
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D.
Assamese calendar
The Assamese calendar is a traditional lunisolar calendar used in Assam, India, to determine regional festivals, agricultural cycles, and cultural observances.
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E.
Hindu lunisolar calendar
The Hindu lunisolar calendar is a traditional timekeeping system used across the Indian subcontinent that combines lunar months with solar years to determine religious festivals, rituals, and regional New Year dates.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lunisolar calendar
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traditional calendar system ⓘ |
| alignsWith |
agricultural seasons
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seasonal changes ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
kyūreki
ⓘ
old Japanese calendar ⓘ |
| basedOn |
synodic month
ⓘ
tropical year ⓘ |
| calendarType | lunisolar ⓘ |
| countryOfUse | Japan ⓘ |
| eraNameExample |
Heisei
ⓘ
Meiji era ⓘ
surface form:
Meiji
Reiwa ⓘ Showa era ⓘ
surface form:
Showa
Taisho era ⓘ
surface form:
Taisho
|
| hasComponent |
era name system
ⓘ
lunar months ⓘ sexagenary cycle ⓘ solar terms ⓘ |
| hasPart |
24 solar terms
ⓘ
72 microseasons ⓘ Choyo no sekku ⓘ Doyo no ushi no hi ⓘ Gosekku festivals ⓘ Higan ⓘ Hinamatsuri ⓘ Jinjitsu ⓘ New Year festival ⓘ Ullambana Festival ⓘ
surface form:
Obon festival
Setsubun festival ⓘ
surface form:
Setsubun
Tanabata ⓘ Tango no sekku ⓘ era names ⓘ sexagenary day cycle ⓘ sexagenary year cycle ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
traditional Chinese calendar
ⓘ
surface form:
Chinese calendar
|
| introducedGregorianCalendarInJapan | 1873 ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| officialUseEnded | 1873 ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
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surface form:
Gregorian calendar
|
| stillUsedFor |
Buddhist observances
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Shinto rituals ⓘ fortune-telling ⓘ traditional festivals scheduling ⓘ |
| usedFor |
agricultural activities
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astrology ⓘ court ceremonies ⓘ religious festivals ⓘ seasonal festivals ⓘ |
| uses | intercalary months ⓘ |
| usesEraNamesFor | years ⓘ |
| usesSexagenaryCycleFor |
days
ⓘ
years ⓘ |
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: Japanese traditional calendar Description of subject: The Japanese traditional calendar is a lunisolar timekeeping system historically used in Japan, adapted from Chinese models and incorporating local festivals, seasonal markers, and era names tied to imperial reigns.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.