Coptic calendar
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The Coptic calendar is the liturgical and agricultural calendar used by the Coptic Orthodox Church, derived from the ancient Egyptian calendar and still employed in Egypt for religious feasts and seasons.
All labels observed (21)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T341363 — 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: Coptic calendar Context triple: [Copts, calendar, Coptic calendar]
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Ethiopian calendar
The Ethiopian calendar is a solar calendar used primarily in Ethiopia that is roughly seven to eight years behind the Gregorian calendar and features 13 months in a year.
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Hebrew calendar
The Hebrew calendar is a lunisolar calendar used primarily for Jewish religious observances, holidays, and the determination of ceremonial dates.
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Julian calendar
The Julian calendar is an ancient solar calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BCE, historically used throughout Europe and still employed by some Eastern Christian churches for liturgical purposes.
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Revised Julian calendar
The Revised Julian calendar is a modernized version of the traditional Julian calendar, adopted by several Eastern Orthodox Churches to more closely align fixed feast dates with the Gregorian calendar while retaining the Orthodox Paschalion.
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Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
The Gregorian calendar (Western churches) is the internationally used solar dating system introduced in 1582 that most Western Christian churches follow for determining liturgical dates and feasts.
- 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: Coptic calendar Target entity description: The Coptic calendar is the liturgical and agricultural calendar used by the Coptic Orthodox Church, derived from the ancient Egyptian calendar and still employed in Egypt for religious feasts and seasons.
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A.
Ethiopian calendar
The Ethiopian calendar is a solar calendar used primarily in Ethiopia that is roughly seven to eight years behind the Gregorian calendar and features 13 months in a year.
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B.
Hebrew calendar
The Hebrew calendar is a lunisolar calendar used primarily for Jewish religious observances, holidays, and the determination of ceremonial dates.
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C.
Julian calendar
The Julian calendar is an ancient solar calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BCE, historically used throughout Europe and still employed by some Eastern Christian churches for liturgical purposes.
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D.
Revised Julian calendar
The Revised Julian calendar is a modernized version of the traditional Julian calendar, adopted by several Eastern Orthodox Churches to more closely align fixed feast dates with the Gregorian calendar while retaining the Orthodox Paschalion.
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Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
The Gregorian calendar (Western churches) is the internationally used solar dating system introduced in 1582 that most Western Christian churches follow for determining liturgical dates and feasts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Coptic calendar Description of subject: The Coptic calendar is the liturgical and agricultural calendar used by the Coptic Orthodox Church, derived from the ancient Egyptian calendar and still employed in Egypt for religious feasts and seasons.
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ancient Egyptian calendar
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ancient Egyptian civil calendar
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Alexandrian liturgical calendar
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Liturgy of Saint Cyril
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Coptic calendar of saints
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Coptic calendar (for some liturgical purposes)
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Alexandrian (Coptic) calendar
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Egyptian calendar
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Egyptian civil calendar
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Alexandrian liturgical calendar
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Ancient Egyptian calendar
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Coptic New Year feast
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Alexandrian calendar
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Anno Martyrum (Coptic era)
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Coptic Orthodox Church liturgical calendar
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Alexandrian calendar
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Ancient Egyptian calendar
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Ancient Egyptian calendar
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Anno Martyrum (Coptic era)
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Alexandrian liturgical calendar
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Egyptian calendar
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Alexandrian liturgical calendar