Holy Week
E14131
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.
All labels observed (17)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T35152 — 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: Holy Week Context triple: [Easter, preceededBy, Holy Week]
-
A.
Good Friday
Good Friday is a solemn Christian holy day commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ.
-
B.
Lent
Lent is a solemn Christian liturgical season of prayer, fasting, and penitence that prepares believers for the celebration of Easter.
-
C.
Paschal cycle
The Paschal cycle is the sequence of movable feasts and liturgical observances in the Christian calendar that are determined each year in relation to the date of Easter.
-
D.
Eastertide
Eastertide is the liturgical season in the Christian calendar celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, spanning the weeks from Easter Sunday until Pentecost.
-
E.
Ascension Day
Ascension Day is a major Christian feast commemorating Jesus Christ’s bodily ascension into heaven, observed on the 40th day of 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: Holy Week Target entity description: 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.
-
A.
Good Friday
Good Friday is a solemn Christian holy day commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ.
-
B.
Lent
Lent is a solemn Christian liturgical season of prayer, fasting, and penitence that prepares believers for the celebration of Easter.
-
C.
Paschal cycle
The Paschal cycle is the sequence of movable feasts and liturgical observances in the Christian calendar that are determined each year in relation to the date of Easter.
-
D.
Eastertide
Eastertide is the liturgical season in the Christian calendar celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, spanning the weeks from Easter Sunday until Pentecost.
-
E.
Ascension Day
Ascension Day is a major Christian feast commemorating Jesus Christ’s bodily ascension into heaven, observed on the 40th day of Easter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian observance
ⓘ
liturgical season ⓘ religious festival period ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Great Week
ⓘ
Holy Week ⓘ
surface form:
Heilige Woche
Holy Week ⓘ
surface form:
Semaine Sainte
Holy Week ⓘ
surface form:
Semana Santa
Holy Week ⓘ
surface form:
Settimana Santa
|
| associatedWith |
Passion plays
ⓘ
Stations of the Cross ⓘ penitential practices ⓘ processions ⓘ special liturgies ⓘ |
| calendarBasis | liturgical year ⓘ |
| commemorates |
Passion of Christ
ⓘ
surface form:
Passion of Jesus
burial of Jesus ⓘ death of Jesus ⓘ final days of Jesus Christ ⓘ |
| contains | Paschal Triduum ⓘ |
| culminatesIn |
Easter
ⓘ
surface form:
Easter Sunday
|
| dateDetermination | movable feast based on date of Easter ⓘ |
| follows | Fifth Sunday of Lent ⓘ |
| includesDay |
Good Friday
ⓘ
Holy Saturday ⓘ
surface form:
Holy Monday
Holy Saturday ⓘ Holy Tuesday ⓘ Holy Wednesday ⓘ Maundy Thursday ⓘ Palm Sunday ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
French (Semaine Sainte)
ⓘ
German (Heilige Woche) ⓘ Italian (Settimana Santa) ⓘ Spanish ⓘ
surface form:
Spanish (Semana Santa)
|
| liturgicalColor |
red (for certain days such as Palm Sunday and Good Friday)
ⓘ
violet ⓘ |
| observedBy |
Anglican Communion
ⓘ
Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Orthodox Church
Lutheranism ⓘ
surface form:
Lutheran Churches
Oriental Orthodoxy ⓘ
surface form:
Oriental Orthodox Churches
Roman Catholicism ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
many other Protestant denominations ⓘ |
| partOf |
Paschal cycle
ⓘ
surface form:
Easter cycle
Paschal Triduum ⓘ
surface form:
Paschal Triduum and related days
|
| precedes |
Resurrection Sunday
ⓘ
surface form:
Easter Sunday
|
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| startsWith | Palm Sunday ⓘ |
| theme |
preparation for Easter
ⓘ
redemption ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ suffering of Christ ⓘ |
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: Holy Week Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (94)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Holy Week (Coptic observance)
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: Mannerist Architectural and Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park
→
notableEvent
→
Holy Week
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Holy Week Passion plays
this entity surface form:
Semana Santa
this entity surface form:
Christian Holy Week (in some traditions)
this entity surface form:
Semana Santa
this entity surface form:
Settimana Santa
this entity surface form:
Semaine Sainte
this entity surface form:
Heilige Woche
this entity surface form:
Holy Week in Jerusalem
this entity surface form:
Holy Week celebrations
this entity surface form:
Holy Week offices
this entity surface form:
Holy Week processions
this entity surface form:
Holy Week processions
this entity surface form:
Great and Holy Week
this entity surface form:
Passion Week
this entity surface form:
Passion Week in Eastern Christianity