Easter Week

E107086

Christian feast liturgical period moveable feast

Easter Week is the Christian liturgical period beginning with Easter Sunday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus through a series of post-Easter observances and services.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Easter season	13
Easter Week canonical	1
Easter period	1
Festtage (Easter festival, historically)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T885970 — 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: Easter Week
Context triple: [Easter Monday, occursDuring, Easter Week]

A. Easter
Easter is the principal Christian festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, observed with religious services and various cultural traditions worldwide.
B. Easter Monday
Easter Monday is the Christian holiday observed on the day after Easter Sunday, often marked by religious services, public celebrations, and, in many countries, a public holiday.
C. Holy Week
Holy Week is the most solemn period in the Christian liturgical year, commemorating the final days of Jesus Christ’s life, including his passion, death, and burial, leading up to Easter.
D. Easter Eve
Easter Eve is the Christian observance on the day before Easter Sunday, commemorating the time Jesus lay in the tomb and often marked by quiet reflection and the Easter Vigil liturgy.
E. Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday is a Christian feast that commemorates Jesus Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem, marking the start of Holy Week before Easter.
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: Easter Week
Target entity description: Easter Week is the Christian liturgical period beginning with Easter Sunday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus through a series of post-Easter observances and services.

A. Easter
Easter is the principal Christian festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, observed with religious services and various cultural traditions worldwide.
B. Easter Monday
Easter Monday is the Christian holiday observed on the day after Easter Sunday, often marked by religious services, public celebrations, and, in many countries, a public holiday.
C. Holy Week
Holy Week is the most solemn period in the Christian liturgical year, commemorating the final days of Jesus Christ’s life, including his passion, death, and burial, leading up to Easter.
D. Easter Eve
Easter Eve is the Christian observance on the day before Easter Sunday, commemorating the time Jesus lay in the tomb and often marked by quiet reflection and the Easter Vigil liturgy.
E. Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday is a Christian feast that commemorates Jesus Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem, marking the start of Holy Week before Easter.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Christian feast ⓘ liturgical period ⓘ moveable feast ⓘ
associatedWith	joyful liturgical celebrations ⓘ renewal of baptismal promises ⓘ singing of the Alleluia ⓘ singing of the Gloria ⓘ
beginsOn	Resurrection Sunday ⓘ surface form: Easter Sunday
calendarBasis	date of Easter Sunday ⓘ
celebrates	resurrection of Jesus Christ ⓘ surface form: Resurrection of Jesus
commemorates	post-resurrection appearances of Jesus ⓘ
duration	8 days ⓘ
endsOn	the Sunday after Easter Sunday ⓘ
follows	Holy Week ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Bright Week ⓘ Octave of Easter ⓘ surface form: Easter Octave Octave of Easter ⓘ Renewal Week ⓘ
hasLiturgicalRank	solemnity (each day in Roman Catholic practice) ⓘ
hasTheme	encounters with the risen Christ ⓘ new life in Christ ⓘ victory over death ⓘ
includesDay	Easter Friday ⓘ Easter Monday ⓘ Easter Eve ⓘ surface form: Easter Saturday Resurrection Sunday ⓘ surface form: Easter Sunday Easter Thursday ⓘ Easter Tuesday ⓘ Easter Wednesday ⓘ Second Sunday of Easter ⓘ
inEasternOrthodoxyCalled	Bright Week ⓘ
inEasternOrthodoxyPractice	fasting is traditionally prohibited ⓘ
inRomanCatholicismAlsoCalled	Octave of Easter ⓘ
inRomanCatholicismPractice	special Mass propers for each day of the octave ⓘ
linkedTo	Paschal mystery ⓘ
liturgicalColor	white ⓘ
observedBy	Anglican Communion ⓘ Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ surface form: Eastern Orthodox Church Lutheranism ⓘ surface form: Lutheran Churches Methodist churches ⓘ surface form: Methodist Churches Oriental Orthodoxy ⓘ surface form: Oriental Orthodox Churches Roman Catholicism ⓘ surface form: Roman Catholic Church other Protestant Churches ⓘ
occursIn	spring in the Northern Hemisphere ⓘ
partOf	Paschal cycle ⓘ surface form: Easter season
precedes	remainder of the Easter season ⓘ
relatedTo	Ascension of Jesus ⓘ Pentecost ⓘ
usedIn	Christian liturgical calendar ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Easter Monday → occursDuring → Easter Week ⓘ

Berlin State Opera → hostsFestival → Easter Week ⓘ

this entity surface form: Festtage (Easter festival, historically)

Syriac liturgical year → hasSeason → Easter Week ⓘ