St Martin's Day
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St Martin's Day is a Christian feast celebrated on November 11 in honor of Saint Martin of Tours, often marked by processions, lantern walks, and charitable traditions.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Feast of Saint Martin | 1 |
| Feast of Saint Martin of Tours | 1 |
| Martinmas | 1 |
| Martinstag | 1 |
| St Martin's Day canonical | 1 |
| St Martin's Feast | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2778103 — 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: St Martin's Day Context triple: [Martin of Tours, commemoratedBy, St Martin's Day]
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A.
Saint Nicholas Day
Saint Nicholas Day is a Christian feast day on December 6 (in most Western countries) honoring Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of children, and is celebrated with gift-giving and various folk traditions that influenced the modern figure of Santa Claus.
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B.
All Saints’ Day
All Saints’ Day is a Christian solemnity celebrated on November 1st in Western churches to honor all known and unknown saints.
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C.
Saint Andrew's Day
Saint Andrew's Day is a Scottish national celebration held annually on 30 November in honor of Saint Andrew, the country's patron saint.
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D.
Pentecostarion
The Pentecostarion is an Eastern Christian liturgical book used in the Byzantine Rite that contains the hymns and services for the period from Easter (Pascha) through the Sunday after Pentecost.
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E.
Feast of the Holy Innocents
The Feast of the Holy Innocents is a Christian liturgical celebration commemorating the infant boys killed by King Herod in Bethlehem, observed within the Christmas season.
- 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: St Martin's Day Target entity description: St Martin's Day is a Christian feast celebrated on November 11 in honor of Saint Martin of Tours, often marked by processions, lantern walks, and charitable traditions.
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A.
Saint Nicholas Day
Saint Nicholas Day is a Christian feast day on December 6 (in most Western countries) honoring Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of children, and is celebrated with gift-giving and various folk traditions that influenced the modern figure of Santa Claus.
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B.
All Saints’ Day
All Saints’ Day is a Christian solemnity celebrated on November 1st in Western churches to honor all known and unknown saints.
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C.
Saint Andrew's Day
Saint Andrew's Day is a Scottish national celebration held annually on 30 November in honor of Saint Andrew, the country's patron saint.
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D.
Pentecostarion
The Pentecostarion is an Eastern Christian liturgical book used in the Byzantine Rite that contains the hymns and services for the period from Easter (Pascha) through the Sunday after Pentecost.
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E.
Feast of the Holy Innocents
The Feast of the Holy Innocents is a Christian liturgical celebration commemorating the infant boys killed by King Herod in Bethlehem, observed within the Christmas season.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian feast day
ⓘ
public holiday ⓘ religious holiday ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
St Martin's Day
ⓘ
surface form:
Feast of Saint Martin
St Martin's Day ⓘ
surface form:
Martinmas
St Martin's Day ⓘ
surface form:
Martinstag
St Martin's Day ⓘ
surface form:
St Martin's Feast
|
| associatedWith |
acts of mercy
ⓘ
end of the agrarian year in medieval Europe ⓘ sharing of a cloak with a beggar ⓘ |
| calendar |
Christian liturgical year
ⓘ
surface form:
Western Christian liturgical calendar
|
| commemorates | burial of Saint Martin of Tours ⓘ |
| dateObserved | November 11 ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAspect |
children's festivities
ⓘ
folk customs ⓘ local parish celebrations ⓘ |
| honors |
Martin of Tours
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Martin of Tours
|
| linkedTo | end of harvest season ⓘ |
| liturgicalColor | white ⓘ |
| observedIn |
Austria
ⓘ
Belgium ⓘ Croatia ⓘ Czech Republic ⓘ France ⓘ Germany ⓘ Hungary ⓘ Island of Ireland ⓘ
surface form:
Ireland
Netherlands ⓘ Poland ⓘ Portugal ⓘ Slovakia ⓘ Spain ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ parts of Italy ⓘ parts of the United Kingdom ⓘ some regions of Latin America ⓘ |
| patronSaint |
Martin of Tours
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Martin of Tours
|
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| season | autumn ⓘ |
| traditionIncludes |
bonfires
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charitable giving ⓘ children's lantern walks ⓘ drinking new wine ⓘ eating roast goose ⓘ lantern processions ⓘ processions on horseback representing Saint Martin ⓘ sharing food with the poor ⓘ singing of St Martin songs ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: St Martin's Day Description of subject: St Martin's Day is a Christian feast celebrated on November 11 in honor of Saint Martin of Tours, often marked by processions, lantern walks, and charitable traditions.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Feast of Saint Martin
this entity surface form:
Martinmas
this entity surface form:
Martinstag
this entity surface form:
St Martin's Feast