Holi
E18876
Holi is a major Hindu spring festival known as the "festival of colors," celebrated with vibrant powders, water, music, and communal joy to mark the victory of good over evil and the arrival of spring.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Holi canonical | 57 |
| Festival of Colors | 2 |
| Holika Dahan | 2 |
| Rangwali Holi | 2 |
| Chhoti Holi | 1 |
| Holi (through the story of Holika and Prahlada) | 1 |
| Holi Festival of Colors celebration | 1 |
| Holi festival | 1 |
| Holi in Braj | 1 |
| Holika Dahan bonfire | 1 |
| Lathmar Holi | 1 |
| Lathmar Holi celebrations | 1 |
| Phagwah (Holi) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T152511 — 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: Holi Context triple: [Hinduism, hasFestival, Holi]
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A.
Diwali
Diwali is a major Hindu festival of lights celebrating the victory of good over evil and light over darkness, marked by prayers, feasts, and fireworks.
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B.
Purim
Purim is a joyous Jewish holiday commemorating the salvation of the Jews in ancient Persia as recounted in the biblical Book of Esther, celebrated with feasting, costumes, charity, and the reading of the Megillah.
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C.
Sivan
Sivan is the third month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally associated with the festival of Shavuot and the giving of the Torah.
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D.
Swayam
Swayam is an Indian government-backed online learning platform that provides free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from schools, colleges, and universities across the country.
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E.
Hanukkah
Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish festival, also known as the Festival of Lights, commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem and celebrated by lighting a menorah, reciting special prayers, and enjoying traditional foods.
- 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: Holi Target entity description: Holi is a major Hindu spring festival known as the "festival of colors," celebrated with vibrant powders, water, music, and communal joy to mark the victory of good over evil and the arrival of spring.
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A.
Diwali
Diwali is a major Hindu festival of lights celebrating the victory of good over evil and light over darkness, marked by prayers, feasts, and fireworks.
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B.
Purim
Purim is a joyous Jewish holiday commemorating the salvation of the Jews in ancient Persia as recounted in the biblical Book of Esther, celebrated with feasting, costumes, charity, and the reading of the Megillah.
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C.
Sivan
Sivan is the third month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally associated with the festival of Shavuot and the giving of the Torah.
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D.
Swayam
Swayam is an Indian government-backed online learning platform that provides free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from schools, colleges, and universities across the country.
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E.
Hanukkah
Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish festival, also known as the Festival of Lights, commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem and celebrated by lighting a menorah, reciting special prayers, and enjoying traditional foods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu festival
ⓘ
cultural festival ⓘ religious festival ⓘ spring festival ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Holi
ⓘ
surface form:
Festival of Colors
Festival of Love ⓘ Festival of Spring ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity |
Krishna
ⓘ
Vishnu ⓘ |
| associatedWithLegend |
Hiranyakashipu
ⓘ
Holika and Prahlada ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Mathura
ⓘ
Vrindavan ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion | Braj ⓘ |
| celebratedIn |
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
ⓘ
surface form:
Bangladesh
Fiji ⓘ British Guiana ⓘ
surface form:
Guyana
India ⓘ Mauritius ⓘ Nepal ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ Sri Lanka ⓘ Suriname ⓘ Trinidad and Tobago ⓘ global Indian diaspora ⓘ |
| colorSubstance |
abir
ⓘ
gulal ⓘ |
| culturalImpact | inspired color-themed festivals worldwide ⓘ |
| custom |
drinking thandai
ⓘ
lighting bonfires ⓘ sharing sweets and festive foods ⓘ singing and dancing ⓘ sprinkling colored water ⓘ throwing colored powders ⓘ visiting friends and family ⓘ |
| duration | 2 days ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
community bonding
ⓘ
playfulness ⓘ social harmony ⓘ |
| mainDay |
Dhulandi
ⓘ
Rang Panchami ⓘ Holi self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Rangwali Holi
|
| mainlyCelebratedBy |
Hinduism
ⓘ
surface form:
Hindus
|
| observedBy | people of various religions in South Asia ⓘ |
| occursInMonth |
March
ⓘ
Phalguna ⓘ |
| preFestivalRitual |
Holi
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Chhoti Holi
Holi self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Holika Dahan
|
| publicHolidayIn |
Fiji
ⓘ
British Guiana ⓘ
surface form:
Guyana
India ⓘ Mauritius ⓘ Nepal ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ
surface form:
Pakistan (in some regions)
Suriname ⓘ Trinidad and Tobago ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| season | spring ⓘ |
| startsOn |
Narali Purnima
ⓘ
surface form:
Purnima
full moon day of Phalguna ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
arrival of spring
ⓘ
end of winter ⓘ forgiveness ⓘ joy ⓘ renewal of relationships ⓘ victory of good over evil ⓘ |
| typeOfHoliday |
public holiday
ⓘ
religious observance ⓘ |
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: Holi Description of subject: Holi is a major Hindu spring festival known as the "festival of colors," celebrated with vibrant powders, water, music, and communal joy to mark the victory of good over evil and the arrival of spring.
Referenced by (72)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Phagwah (Holi)
subject surface form:
Northern India
this entity surface form:
Festival of Colors
this entity surface form:
Holika Dahan
this entity surface form:
Chhoti Holi
this entity surface form:
Rangwali Holi
this entity surface form:
Holi (through the story of Holika and Prahlada)
this entity surface form:
Holi festival
subject surface form:
Holika
this entity surface form:
Holika Dahan bonfire
subject surface form:
Holika
subject surface form:
Prahlada
this entity surface form:
Holi in Braj