Whit Friday marches
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Whit Friday marches are traditional brass band contests held on Whit Friday in parts of northern England, especially around Saddleworth and Tameside, featuring bands parading and performing in village streets.
All labels observed (1)
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11916478 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whit Friday marches Context triple: [Whit Friday brass band contests, alsoKnownAs, Whit Friday marches]
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Twelfth of July parades
Twelfth of July parades are annual Protestant unionist marches in Northern Ireland that commemorate the 1690 Battle of the Boyne and assert British and Orange Order cultural identity.
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B.
Handsworth Carnival
Handsworth Carnival is a vibrant annual Caribbean-style street festival in Handsworth, Birmingham, celebrating Black culture with music, dance, food, and parades.
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C.
Jarrow March
The Jarrow March was a 1936 protest in which unemployed workers from the English town of Jarrow marched to London to demand government action against severe local unemployment and poverty.
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Street Parade
Street Parade is one of the world’s largest techno and electronic music festivals, held annually as a massive street party in Zurich, Switzerland.
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E.
Burntollet Bridge march
The Burntollet Bridge march was a pivotal 1969 civil rights protest in Northern Ireland that was violently attacked by loyalists, helping to escalate tensions at the outset of the Troubles.
- 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: Whit Friday marches Target entity description: Whit Friday marches are traditional brass band contests held on Whit Friday in parts of northern England, especially around Saddleworth and Tameside, featuring bands parading and performing in village streets.
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A.
Twelfth of July parades
Twelfth of July parades are annual Protestant unionist marches in Northern Ireland that commemorate the 1690 Battle of the Boyne and assert British and Orange Order cultural identity.
-
B.
Handsworth Carnival
Handsworth Carnival is a vibrant annual Caribbean-style street festival in Handsworth, Birmingham, celebrating Black culture with music, dance, food, and parades.
-
C.
Jarrow March
The Jarrow March was a 1936 protest in which unemployed workers from the English town of Jarrow marched to London to demand government action against severe local unemployment and poverty.
-
D.
Street Parade
Street Parade is one of the world’s largest techno and electronic music festivals, held annually as a massive street party in Zurich, Switzerland.
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E.
Burntollet Bridge march
The Burntollet Bridge march was a pivotal 1969 civil rights protest in Northern Ireland that was violently attacked by loyalists, helping to escalate tensions at the outset of the Troubles.
- F. None of above. chosen
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