Ugadi
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Ugadi is the traditional New Year festival celebrated predominantly in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Karnataka, marking the beginning of the Hindu lunisolar calendar with rituals, special foods, and cultural festivities.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ugadi canonical | 20 |
| Hindu New Year | 1 |
| Yugadi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4817215 — 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: Ugadi Context triple: [Gudi Padwa, relatedFestival, Ugadi]
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A.
Vishu
Vishu is a major spring festival in Kerala that marks the traditional New Year in the Malayalam calendar, celebrated with rituals like Vishukkani, fireworks, and festive feasts.
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B.
Pongal
Pongal is a major South Indian harvest festival, especially celebrated in Tamil Nadu, that honors the sun god and marks the season of abundance with traditional rituals, feasts, and community gatherings.
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C.
Gudi Padwa
Gudi Padwa is a major spring festival marking the Marathi New Year, celebrated with rituals, colorful decorations, and the raising of a symbolic gudi flag.
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D.
Bhogi
Bhogi is the first day of the multi-day harvest festival around Makar Sankranti in South India, marked by discarding old possessions, lighting bonfires, and celebrating new beginnings.
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E.
Cheti Chand
Cheti Chand is the Sindhi New Year festival that commemorates the birth of Jhulelal, the community’s revered patron saint.
- 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: Ugadi Target entity description: Ugadi is the traditional New Year festival celebrated predominantly in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Karnataka, marking the beginning of the Hindu lunisolar calendar with rituals, special foods, and cultural festivities.
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A.
Vishu
Vishu is a major spring festival in Kerala that marks the traditional New Year in the Malayalam calendar, celebrated with rituals like Vishukkani, fireworks, and festive feasts.
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B.
Pongal
Pongal is a major South Indian harvest festival, especially celebrated in Tamil Nadu, that honors the sun god and marks the season of abundance with traditional rituals, feasts, and community gatherings.
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C.
Gudi Padwa
Gudi Padwa is a major spring festival marking the Marathi New Year, celebrated with rituals, colorful decorations, and the raising of a symbolic gudi flag.
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D.
Bhogi
Bhogi is the first day of the multi-day harvest festival around Makar Sankranti in South India, marked by discarding old possessions, lighting bonfires, and celebrating new beginnings.
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E.
Cheti Chand
Cheti Chand is the Sindhi New Year festival that commemorates the birth of Jhulelal, the community’s revered patron saint.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu festival
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New Year festival ⓘ spring festival ⓘ |
| associatedWithSeason | spring ⓘ |
| calendarBasis | lunar month of Chaitra ⓘ |
| celebratedIn |
Andhra Pradesh
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India ⓘ Karnataka ⓘ Telangana ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
regional identity for Telugu and Kannada communities
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start of new ventures and activities ⓘ |
| etymologyFrom |
Sanskrit word "adi"
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Sanskrit word "yuga" ⓘ |
| followsCalendar | Hindu lunisolar calendar ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Yugadi
ⓘ
linked to:
Ugadi
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| hasCustom |
buying new clothes
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exchanging greetings and visiting relatives ⓘ organizing cultural programs and performances ⓘ |
| hasFood |
Ugadi pachadi
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bevu-bella mixture ⓘ special festive meals ⓘ |
| hasRitual |
doorway decoration with mango leaves (toran)
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house cleaning ⓘ oil bath ⓘ panchanga shravana (almanac reading) ⓘ rangoli or muggu drawing ⓘ visiting temples ⓘ |
| marks |
beginning of the Hindu lunisolar year
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first day of the Chaitra month ⓘ |
| meaning | beginning of a new age ⓘ |
| observedBy |
Kannada people
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Konkani people in some regions ⓘ Telugu people ⓘ |
| relatedFestival |
Cheti Chand
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Gudi Padwa ⓘ Navreh ⓘ Puthandu ⓘ Vishu ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
beginning of a new cycle of life
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mixture of different emotions in life ⓘ |
| timeOfYear |
April
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March ⓘ |
| ugadiPachadiIngredient |
chili or pepper
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jaggery ⓘ neem flowers or leaves ⓘ raw mango ⓘ salt ⓘ tamarind ⓘ |
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: Ugadi Description of subject: Ugadi is the traditional New Year festival celebrated predominantly in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Karnataka, marking the beginning of the Hindu lunisolar calendar with rituals, special foods, and cultural festivities.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.