Holidays of Iraq
E766305
Holidays of Iraq are the officially recognized national and religious observances in Iraq that commemorate key historical events, cultural traditions, and Islamic holy days.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Holidays of Iraq canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8931823 — 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: Holidays of Iraq Context triple: [14 July Revolution Day, category, Holidays of Iraq]
-
A.
Holidays Around the World
Holidays Around the World was the original seasonal celebration at Epcot that showcased winter holiday traditions, music, and cuisine from various cultures and countries.
-
B.
Israeli national holidays
Israeli national holidays are official commemorative days in Israel that mark key religious, historical, and national events in the life of the Jewish people and the state.
-
C.
Nowruz celebrations
Nowruz celebrations are the vibrant Persian New Year festivities marked by Tajiks and other communities with rituals of renewal, family gatherings, special foods, music, and dance to welcome the spring.
-
D.
Halabja Memorial Day
Halabja Memorial Day is an annual day of remembrance honoring the victims of the 1988 chemical bombing of the Kurdish city of Halabja in Iraq.
-
E.
Eid
Eid is a municipality in the Nordfjord region of Vestland county in western Norway, known for its fjord landscapes and small-town coastal communities.
- 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: Holidays of Iraq Target entity description: Holidays of Iraq are the officially recognized national and religious observances in Iraq that commemorate key historical events, cultural traditions, and Islamic holy days.
-
A.
Holidays Around the World
Holidays Around the World was the original seasonal celebration at Epcot that showcased winter holiday traditions, music, and cuisine from various cultures and countries.
-
B.
Israeli national holidays
Israeli national holidays are official commemorative days in Israel that mark key religious, historical, and national events in the life of the Jewish people and the state.
-
C.
Nowruz celebrations
Nowruz celebrations are the vibrant Persian New Year festivities marked by Tajiks and other communities with rituals of renewal, family gatherings, special foods, music, and dance to welcome the spring.
-
D.
Halabja Memorial Day
Halabja Memorial Day is an annual day of remembrance honoring the victims of the 1988 chemical bombing of the Kurdish city of Halabja in Iraq.
-
E.
Eid
Eid is a municipality in the Nordfjord region of Vestland county in western Norway, known for its fjord landscapes and small-town coastal communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | public holiday system ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Iraqi national identity
ⓘ
Islamic religious calendar ⓘ Kurdish New Year celebrations ⓘ history of modern Iraq ⓘ post-2003 political changes in Iraq ⓘ |
| country | Iraq ⓘ |
| culturalComponent |
Assyrian cultural holidays
ⓘ
Kurdish cultural holidays ⓘ |
| feature |
closure of banks on official public holidays
ⓘ
closure of government offices on most national holidays ⓘ combination of fixed-date and movable holidays ⓘ regional variation in observance intensity ⓘ school closures on major holidays ⓘ strong influence of Shia Islam on public observances ⓘ |
| includes |
Arbaeen (Iraq)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Army Day (Iraq) NERFINISHED ⓘ Ashura (Iraq) NERFINISHED ⓘ Christmas Day (Iraq) NERFINISHED ⓘ Eid al-Adha (Iraq) NERFINISHED ⓘ Eid al-Fitr (Iraq) NERFINISHED ⓘ Independence Day (Iraq, historical observance) NERFINISHED ⓘ Islamic New Year (Iraq) NERFINISHED ⓘ Labour Day (Iraq) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mawlid (Iraq) NERFINISHED ⓘ National Iraqi Day (3 October) NERFINISHED ⓘ Newroz (Iraq) NERFINISHED ⓘ Nowruz (Kurdish New Year in Iraq) NERFINISHED ⓘ Republic Day (Iraq) NERFINISHED ⓘ Victory over ISIS Day (Iraq) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Iraqi labour law and public holidays legislation ⓘ |
| majorHoliday |
Arbaeen (Iraq)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Army Day (Iraq) NERFINISHED ⓘ Ashura (Iraq) NERFINISHED ⓘ Eid al-Adha (Iraq) NERFINISHED ⓘ Eid al-Fitr (Iraq) NERFINISHED ⓘ Newroz (Iraq) NERFINISHED ⓘ Republic Day (Iraq) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observedBy |
Iraqi citizens
ⓘ
Iraqi government institutions ⓘ Iraqi private sector (partially) ⓘ Iraqi schools ⓘ |
| religiousComponent |
Christian holidays in Iraq
ⓘ
Islamic holidays ⓘ Shia Muslim observances ⓘ Sunni Muslim observances ⓘ |
| timeSystem |
Gregorian calendar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Islamic lunar calendar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Holidays of Iraq Description of subject: Holidays of Iraq are the officially recognized national and religious observances in Iraq that commemorate key historical events, cultural traditions, and Islamic holy days.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.