Hikkaduwa Beach Festival (intermittent)
E1046671
Hikkaduwa Beach Festival (intermittent) is a periodically held seaside music and cultural festival in the coastal town of Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka, known for its lively parties, DJs, and beachside entertainment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hikkaduwa Beach Festival (intermittent) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13540172 — 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: Hikkaduwa Beach Festival (intermittent) Context triple: [Hikkaduwa, hasEvent, Hikkaduwa Beach Festival (intermittent)]
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A.
Sanur Village Festival
The Sanur Village Festival is an annual cultural and community event in Sanur, Bali, featuring traditional arts, music, food, and environmental activities that celebrate local heritage and tourism.
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B.
Pattini Devale Perahera
Pattini Devale Perahera is a traditional Sri Lankan religious procession held in honor of the goddess Pattini as part of the larger Esala Perahera festival in Kandy.
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C.
Thingyan festival
Thingyan festival is the traditional Burmese New Year water festival, celebrated nationwide in Myanmar with water-throwing, religious merit-making, and communal festivities marking the transition to a new year.
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D.
Esala Perahera
Esala Perahera is a grand annual Buddhist procession in Kandy, Sri Lanka, famed for its elaborately decorated elephants, traditional dancers, and veneration of the Sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha.
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E.
Wangala festival
Wangala festival is a major post-harvest thanksgiving celebration of the Garo people, marked by traditional music, dance, and rituals honoring the Sun god.
- 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: Hikkaduwa Beach Festival (intermittent) Target entity description: Hikkaduwa Beach Festival (intermittent) is a periodically held seaside music and cultural festival in the coastal town of Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka, known for its lively parties, DJs, and beachside entertainment.
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A.
Sanur Village Festival
The Sanur Village Festival is an annual cultural and community event in Sanur, Bali, featuring traditional arts, music, food, and environmental activities that celebrate local heritage and tourism.
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B.
Pattini Devale Perahera
Pattini Devale Perahera is a traditional Sri Lankan religious procession held in honor of the goddess Pattini as part of the larger Esala Perahera festival in Kandy.
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C.
Thingyan festival
Thingyan festival is the traditional Burmese New Year water festival, celebrated nationwide in Myanmar with water-throwing, religious merit-making, and communal festivities marking the transition to a new year.
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D.
Esala Perahera
Esala Perahera is a grand annual Buddhist procession in Kandy, Sri Lanka, famed for its elaborately decorated elephants, traditional dancers, and veneration of the Sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha.
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E.
Wangala festival
Wangala festival is a major post-harvest thanksgiving celebration of the Garo people, marked by traditional music, dance, and rituals honoring the Sun god.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural festival
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music festival ⓘ tourist event ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hikkaduwa tourism
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Sri Lankan nightlife ⓘ |
| attracts |
international tourists
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local tourists ⓘ |
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| culturalAspect |
beach culture
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youth culture ⓘ |
| frequency | intermittent ⓘ |
| genre |
club music
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electronic dance music ⓘ pop music ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
food and drink stalls
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sound and light shows ⓘ stages on the beach ⓘ |
| knownFor |
beachside entertainment
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international DJs ⓘ lively parties ⓘ night-time events ⓘ |
| language |
English
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Sinhala ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Southern Province, Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Hikkaduwa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainActivity |
DJ performances
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beach parties ⓘ dance events ⓘ live music ⓘ nightlife entertainment ⓘ |
| recurrence | periodically held ⓘ |
| setting |
beachfront venues
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seaside ⓘ |
| tourismImpact |
increases hotel occupancy in Hikkaduwa
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promotes Hikkaduwa as a party destination ⓘ |
| typicalTime | night ⓘ |
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: Hikkaduwa Beach Festival (intermittent) Description of subject: Hikkaduwa Beach Festival (intermittent) is a periodically held seaside music and cultural festival in the coastal town of Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka, known for its lively parties, DJs, and beachside entertainment.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.