traditional Chinese calendar
E81628
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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chinese calendar | 4 |
| Chinese lunisolar calendar | 1 |
| traditional Chinese calendar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T652381 — 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: traditional Chinese calendar Context triple: [Metonic cycle, usedIn, traditional Chinese calendar]
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A.
Sinosphere
Sinosphere is the cultural sphere in East and Southeast Asia historically shaped by Chinese language, Confucian philosophy, and related political and social institutions.
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B.
Imperial China
Imperial China refers to the long historical period of Chinese civilization ruled by successive dynasties, characterized by centralized imperial authority, Confucian bureaucracy, and rich cultural, technological, and artistic achievements.
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C.
Han Chinese
The Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group in both China and the world, with a shared cultural heritage, language family, and historical identity rooted in ancient Chinese civilization.
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D.
Xiang Chinese
Xiang Chinese is a major Sinitic language variety spoken primarily in Hunan province and surrounding regions in south-central China.
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E.
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a family of related Sinitic languages and dialects, including Mandarin, Cantonese, and others, spoken by over a billion people primarily in China and across Chinese-speaking communities worldwide.
- 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: traditional Chinese calendar Target entity description: 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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A.
Sinosphere
Sinosphere is the cultural sphere in East and Southeast Asia historically shaped by Chinese language, Confucian philosophy, and related political and social institutions.
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B.
Imperial China
Imperial China refers to the long historical period of Chinese civilization ruled by successive dynasties, characterized by centralized imperial authority, Confucian bureaucracy, and rich cultural, technological, and artistic achievements.
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C.
Han Chinese
The Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group in both China and the world, with a shared cultural heritage, language family, and historical identity rooted in ancient Chinese civilization.
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D.
Xiang Chinese
Xiang Chinese is a major Sinitic language variety spoken primarily in Hunan province and surrounding regions in south-central China.
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E.
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a family of related Sinitic languages and dialects, including Mandarin, Cantonese, and others, spoken by over a billion people primarily in China and across Chinese-speaking communities worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lunisolar calendar
ⓘ
traditional calendar system ⓘ |
| alignsWith |
apparent motion of the Sun
ⓘ
phases of the Moon ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
traditional Chinese calendar
ⓘ
surface form:
Chinese lunisolar calendar
agricultural calendar ⓘ yin calendar ⓘ |
| averageYearLength |
about 354 days without leap month
ⓘ
about 383 to 385 days with leap month ⓘ |
| basedOn |
lunar months
ⓘ
solar terms ⓘ |
| coexistsWith | Gregorian calendar in modern China ⓘ |
| combinedCycleLength | 60 years ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
basis for many East Asian traditional practices
ⓘ
core element of Chinese cultural identity ⓘ |
| definesFestival |
Double Ninth Festival
ⓘ
Dragon Boat Festival ⓘ Laba Festival ⓘ Lantern Festival ⓘ Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations ⓘ
surface form:
Mid-Autumn Festival
Qingming Festival ⓘ Qixi Festival ⓘ Spring Festival ⓘ Yalda Night ⓘ
surface form:
Winter Solstice Festival
|
| definesNewYear |
Spring Festival
ⓘ
surface form:
Chinese New Year
|
| earthlyBranchesCycleLength | 12 years ⓘ |
| eraStart | Yellow Emperor era (traditional) ⓘ |
| governingPrinciple | harmony between Heaven, Earth, and humanity ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
10 heavenly stems
ⓘ
12 earthly branches ⓘ 12 zodiac animals ⓘ 24 solar terms ⓘ leap month system ⓘ months ⓘ sexagenary cycle ⓘ years ⓘ |
| heavenlyStemsCycleLength | 10 years ⓘ |
| influenced |
Japanese traditional calendar
ⓘ
Korean traditional calendar ⓘ Vietnamese traditional calendar ⓘ traditional Mongolian calendar ⓘ |
| leapMonthDeterminedBy | absence of mid-climate solar term in a lunar month ⓘ |
| leapMonthRule | inserts leap month in years with 13 lunar months ⓘ |
| modernComputationBasedOn | astronomical calculations ⓘ |
| newYearOccursIn |
February
ⓘ
late January ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
astrology
ⓘ
determining traditional Chinese festivals ⓘ fortune-telling ⓘ guiding agricultural activities ⓘ selecting auspicious dates ⓘ traditional medicine timing ⓘ |
| regulatedBy |
Imperial China
ⓘ
surface form:
imperial Chinese governments
|
| solarTermCount | 24 ⓘ |
| solarTermInterval | 15 degrees of solar longitude ⓘ |
| typicalMonthLength |
29 days
ⓘ
30 days ⓘ |
| usedIn |
China
ⓘ
Hong Kong, China ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong
Macau ⓘ Taiwan, Province of China ⓘ
surface form:
Taiwan
Overseas Chinese communities ⓘ
surface form:
overseas Chinese communities
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| usesEpoch | sexagenary cycle year count ⓘ |
| zodiacCycleLength | 12 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: traditional Chinese calendar Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Chinese lunisolar calendar
this entity surface form:
Chinese calendar
this entity surface form:
Chinese calendar
this entity surface form:
Chinese calendar
this entity surface form:
Chinese calendar