Sacred Round
E600278
Sacred Round is the English name for the 260-day Mesoamerican ritual calendar used by the Maya and other pre-Columbian cultures for divination and ceremonial purposes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sacred Round canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6561106 — 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: Sacred Round Context triple: [Tzolkʼin calendar, hasAlternativeName, Sacred Round]
-
A.
Sacred Service
Sacred Service is a major choral-orchestral work by composer Ernest Bloch that sets the Jewish Sabbath morning liturgy in a symphonic, concert-style format.
-
B.
Sacred
"Sacred" is a crime novel by Dennis Lehane featuring Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro as they unravel a complex missing-person case.
-
C.
Sacred Arrows
Sacred Arrows are the most revered ceremonial and spiritual objects of the Cheyenne people, central to their religious traditions, identity, and historical narratives.
-
D.
Saviours
Saviours is an American heavy metal band known for its blend of stoner, doom, and classic metal influences.
-
E.
Sacred Grove
The Sacred Grove is a historically significant woodland near Palmyra, New York, revered in Latter-day Saint tradition as the site of Joseph Smith’s First Vision.
- 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: Sacred Round Target entity description: Sacred Round is the English name for the 260-day Mesoamerican ritual calendar used by the Maya and other pre-Columbian cultures for divination and ceremonial purposes.
-
A.
Sacred Service
Sacred Service is a major choral-orchestral work by composer Ernest Bloch that sets the Jewish Sabbath morning liturgy in a symphonic, concert-style format.
-
B.
Sacred
"Sacred" is a crime novel by Dennis Lehane featuring Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro as they unravel a complex missing-person case.
-
C.
Sacred Arrows
Sacred Arrows are the most revered ceremonial and spiritual objects of the Cheyenne people, central to their religious traditions, identity, and historical narratives.
-
D.
Saviours
Saviours is an American heavy metal band known for its blend of stoner, doom, and classic metal influences.
-
E.
Sacred Grove
The Sacred Grove is a historically significant woodland near Palmyra, New York, revered in Latter-day Saint tradition as the site of Joseph Smith’s First Vision.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mesoamerican ritual calendar
ⓘ
calendar system ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeityType | day patrons ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion | Mesoamerica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion | Mesoamerican religion ⓘ |
| category |
Mesoamerican calendars
ⓘ
Religious calendars ⓘ |
| combinedWith | Mesoamerican 365-day solar calendar ⓘ |
| cycleLengthWhenCombined |
18,980 days
ⓘ
52 Haabʼ years ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
Aztec codices
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maya codices NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formsCalendarRoundWith |
Haabʼ
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Xiuhpohualli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
260-day calendar
ⓘ
Tonalpohualli NERFINISHED ⓘ Tzolk'in NERFINISHED ⓘ Tzolkʼin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
20 day names
ⓘ
numbers 1–13 ⓘ |
| hasConceptualRole |
guiding ritual specialists
ⓘ
organizing sacred time ⓘ |
| hasDayCount | 260 days ⓘ |
| hasMathematicalBasis | least common multiple of 13 and 20 ⓘ |
| hasStructure | cycle of 20 named days combined with numbers 1 to 13 ⓘ |
| influencedBy | earlier Mesoamerican calendrical traditions ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| practitionerTitle | daykeeper ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Aztec calendar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maya calendar NERFINISHED ⓘ Mesoamerican Long Count calendar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stillUsedBy | some contemporary Maya communities ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfUse |
Classic period of Mesoamerica
ⓘ
Postclassic period of Mesoamerica NERFINISHED ⓘ Preclassic period of Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| usedByCulture |
Aztec civilization
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maya civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ Mixtec civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ Zapotec civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ other pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures ⓘ |
| usedFor |
astrological interpretation
ⓘ
ceremonial purposes ⓘ divination ⓘ naming of days ⓘ ritual scheduling ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Aztec divinatory practices
ⓘ
Maya divinatory practices ⓘ |
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: Sacred Round Description of subject: Sacred Round is the English name for the 260-day Mesoamerican ritual calendar used by the Maya and other pre-Columbian cultures for divination and ceremonial purposes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.