Moonraking Festival
E290978
Moonraking Festival is a traditional community celebration in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, featuring lantern parades, folk tales, and music, inspired by a local legend about villagers raking the moon’s reflection from a canal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Moonraking Festival canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2709063 — 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: Moonraking Festival Context triple: [Slaithwaite, hasCulturalEvent, Moonraking Festival]
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A.
Festival of Spring
Festival of Spring is a vibrant Hindu festival celebrated with colored powders, music, and dancing to mark the arrival of spring and the triumph of good over evil.
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B.
Yabun Festival
Yabun Festival is a major annual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural celebration in Sydney that showcases Indigenous music, dance, and community on 26 January.
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C.
Festival of the Horse
The Festival of the Horse is an annual community celebration in Georgetown, Kentucky, honoring the region’s rich equine heritage with parades, horse-themed events, and local entertainment.
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D.
Golowan Festival
The Golowan Festival is a revived traditional midsummer celebration in Penzance, Cornwall, featuring parades, music, fireworks, and community arts events.
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E.
Sagicho Festival
The Sagicho Festival is a traditional fire festival in Omihachiman, Japan, featuring elaborately decorated floats that are paraded and then dramatically burned to mark the coming of spring.
- 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: Moonraking Festival Target entity description: Moonraking Festival is a traditional community celebration in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, featuring lantern parades, folk tales, and music, inspired by a local legend about villagers raking the moon’s reflection from a canal.
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A.
Festival of Spring
Festival of Spring is a vibrant Hindu festival celebrated with colored powders, music, and dancing to mark the arrival of spring and the triumph of good over evil.
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B.
Yabun Festival
Yabun Festival is a major annual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural celebration in Sydney that showcases Indigenous music, dance, and community on 26 January.
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C.
Festival of the Horse
The Festival of the Horse is an annual community celebration in Georgetown, Kentucky, honoring the region’s rich equine heritage with parades, horse-themed events, and local entertainment.
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D.
Golowan Festival
The Golowan Festival is a revived traditional midsummer celebration in Penzance, Cornwall, featuring parades, music, fireworks, and community arts events.
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E.
Sagicho Festival
The Sagicho Festival is a traditional fire festival in Omihachiman, Japan, featuring elaborately decorated floats that are paraded and then dramatically burned to mark the coming of spring.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
community festival
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cultural event ⓘ local tradition ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Colne Valley
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Huddersfield Narrow Canal ⓘ
surface form:
Slaithwaite Canal
|
| audience |
local residents
ⓘ
visitors to Slaithwaite ⓘ |
| basedOn | Slaithwaite moonraking legend ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| culturalContext | English folk tradition ⓘ |
| frequency | periodic ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
family-friendly events
ⓘ
lantern making workshops ⓘ musical performances ⓘ procession along the canal ⓘ storytelling ⓘ |
| hasArtForm |
folk music
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lantern art ⓘ oral storytelling ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
community participation
ⓘ
folk tales ⓘ lantern parade ⓘ live music ⓘ street performances ⓘ |
| hasSymbol |
canal water
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moon ⓘ rake ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
canal
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local legend ⓘ moon ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | informal local heritage ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | legend of villagers raking the moon’s reflection from a canal ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
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Slaithwaite ⓘ West Yorkshire ⓘ |
| organisedBy |
local community groups
ⓘ
volunteers ⓘ |
| purpose |
community celebration
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preservation of local legend ⓘ promotion of arts and culture ⓘ |
| region | Yorkshire and the Humber ⓘ |
| significance |
celebrates local heritage
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strengthens community identity ⓘ |
| typeOfLocation | canal-side festival ⓘ |
| usesMedium |
light
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music ⓘ narrative performance ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Moonraking Festival Description of subject: Moonraking Festival is a traditional community celebration in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, featuring lantern parades, folk tales, and music, inspired by a local legend about villagers raking the moon’s reflection from a canal.
Referenced by (1)
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