Amazigh calendar
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The Amazigh calendar is a traditional North African agricultural and cultural calendar used by Berber (Amazigh) communities to mark seasons, festivals, and historical events.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Amazigh calendar canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7053065 — 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: Amazigh calendar Context triple: [Shilha people, usesCalendar, Amazigh calendar]
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A.
Amazigh New Year (Yennayer)
Amazigh New Year (Yennayer) is the traditional Berber New Year celebration in North Africa, marked by cultural festivities, special foods, and the affirmation of Amazigh identity and heritage.
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B.
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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C.
Samaritan calendar
The Samaritan calendar is a lunisolar religious calendar used by the Samaritan community to determine the dates of their festivals and rituals, distinct from but related to the traditional Hebrew calendar.
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D.
Hijri calendar
The Hijri calendar is a lunar-based Islamic calendar used primarily to determine the dates of religious observances and events in the Muslim world.
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E.
Ethiopian calendar
The Ethiopian calendar is a solar calendar used primarily in Ethiopia that is roughly seven to eight years behind the Gregorian calendar and features 13 months in a year.
- 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: Amazigh calendar Target entity description: The Amazigh calendar is a traditional North African agricultural and cultural calendar used by Berber (Amazigh) communities to mark seasons, festivals, and historical events.
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A.
Amazigh New Year (Yennayer)
Amazigh New Year (Yennayer) is the traditional Berber New Year celebration in North Africa, marked by cultural festivities, special foods, and the affirmation of Amazigh identity and heritage.
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B.
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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C.
Samaritan calendar
The Samaritan calendar is a lunisolar religious calendar used by the Samaritan community to determine the dates of their festivals and rituals, distinct from but related to the traditional Hebrew calendar.
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D.
Hijri calendar
The Hijri calendar is a lunar-based Islamic calendar used primarily to determine the dates of religious observances and events in the Muslim world.
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E.
Ethiopian calendar
The Ethiopian calendar is a solar calendar used primarily in Ethiopia that is roughly seven to eight years behind the Gregorian calendar and features 13 months in a year.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
North African cultural heritage
ⓘ
calendar system ⓘ traditional calendar ⓘ |
| associatedWithEthnicGroup | Imazighen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithLanguage | Tamazight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
Amazigh oral tradition
ⓘ
modern ethnographic studies ⓘ |
| eraStartEvent | accession of Sheshonq I to the throne of Egypt ⓘ |
| eraStartYearBC | 950 BC ⓘ |
| hasLeapYearLength | 366 days ⓘ |
| hasMonthName |
Cutanbir
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dujanbir NERFINISHED ⓘ Furar NERFINISHED ⓘ Ghuct NERFINISHED ⓘ Ibrir ⓘ Kctuber NERFINISHED ⓘ Mayyu NERFINISHED ⓘ Meghres ⓘ Nwanbir NERFINISHED ⓘ Yennayer NERFINISHED ⓘ Yulyuz NERFINISHED ⓘ Yunyu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNewYearFestival | Yennayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfMonths | 12 ⓘ |
| hasYearLength | 365 days ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Roman agricultural practices ⓘ |
| preserves | Amazigh cultural identity ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
agricultural calendar
ⓘ
cultural calendar ⓘ |
| recognizedAsPublicHolidayIn |
Algeria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Morocco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Julian calendar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roman calendar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tracks |
festivals
ⓘ
historical events ⓘ seasons ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Amazigh people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Berber communities ⓘ |
| usedFor |
marking religiously inspired customs
ⓘ
organizing communal feasts ⓘ timing agricultural activities ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Algeria
NERFINISHED
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Libya NERFINISHED ⓘ Morocco NERFINISHED ⓘ North Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ Tunisia NERFINISHED ⓘ parts of the Sahara ⓘ |
| YennayerCorrespondsTo | Amazigh New Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| YennayerObservedAround |
January 12
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January 13 ⓘ January 14 ⓘ |
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: Amazigh calendar Description of subject: The Amazigh calendar is a traditional North African agricultural and cultural calendar used by Berber (Amazigh) communities to mark seasons, festivals, and historical events.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Amazigh New Year