Teej
E54531
Teej is a traditional Hindu monsoon festival, especially celebrated by women in northern India, marked by fasting, swings, folk songs, and prayers for marital bliss and well-being.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Teej canonical | 8 |
| Teej festival | 3 |
| Hariyali Teej | 2 |
| Hartalika Teej | 2 |
| Kajari Teej | 2 |
| Teej Festival | 2 |
| Gangaur Festival | 1 |
| Hartalika Teej (in some regions) | 1 |
| Vat Savitri Vrat | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T433211 — 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: Teej Context triple: [Rajasthan, hasFamousFestival, Teej]
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A.
Bihu
Bihu is a major Assamese festival in India that marks seasonal changes and the agrarian New Year with music, dance, and community celebrations.
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B.
Navaratri
Navaratri is a major Hindu festival of nine nights dedicated to the worship of the Divine Mother in her various forms, celebrated with fasting, prayers, music, dance, and cultural rituals.
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C.
Makar Sankranti
Makar Sankranti is a major Hindu harvest and sun festival marking the transition of the Sun into the zodiac sign of Capricorn, celebrated across India with kite flying, feasts, and ritual bathing.
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D.
Holi
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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E.
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.
- 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: Teej Target entity description: Teej is a traditional Hindu monsoon festival, especially celebrated by women in northern India, marked by fasting, swings, folk songs, and prayers for marital bliss and well-being.
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A.
Bihu
Bihu is a major Assamese festival in India that marks seasonal changes and the agrarian New Year with music, dance, and community celebrations.
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B.
Navaratri
Navaratri is a major Hindu festival of nine nights dedicated to the worship of the Divine Mother in her various forms, celebrated with fasting, prayers, music, dance, and cultural rituals.
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C.
Makar Sankranti
Makar Sankranti is a major Hindu harvest and sun festival marking the transition of the Sun into the zodiac sign of Capricorn, celebrated across India with kite flying, feasts, and ritual bathing.
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D.
Holi
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu festival
ⓘ
monsoon festival ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity |
Devi
ⓘ
surface form:
Goddess Parvati
Shiva ⓘ
surface form:
Lord Shiva
|
| associatedWithSeason | monsoon ⓘ |
| calendarType |
Hindu lunisolar calendar
ⓘ
surface form:
Hindu lunar calendar
|
| celebratedBy | Hindu women ⓘ |
| celebratedIn |
India
ⓘ
Nepal ⓘ northern India ⓘ
surface form:
Northern India
|
| celebratedInRegion |
Bihar
ⓘ
Delhi ⓘ Haryana ⓘ Madhya Pradesh ⓘ Punjab ⓘ Rajasthan ⓘ Uttar Pradesh ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
celebration of arrival of monsoon
ⓘ
celebration of fertility ⓘ celebration of marital love ⓘ |
| featuresActivity |
applying henna
ⓘ
fasting ⓘ folk dances ⓘ folk songs ⓘ processions ⓘ special prayers ⓘ swinging on decorated swings ⓘ visiting parental home ⓘ wearing red and green clothes ⓘ |
| hasColorSymbolism |
green
ⓘ
red ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Teej
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Hariyali Teej
Teej self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hartalika Teej
Teej self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Kajari Teej
|
| linkedToMonth |
Bhadrapada
ⓘ
Bhadrapada ⓘ
surface form:
Shravana
|
| mainParticipants |
married women
ⓘ
unmarried girls ⓘ |
| observedFor |
family well-being
ⓘ
marital bliss ⓘ well-being of husband ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| ritualElement |
nirjala fast
ⓘ
worship of Shiva-Parvati ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
devotion of wife to husband
ⓘ
union of Shiva and Parvati ⓘ |
| typeOfFasting | women-only fast in many regions ⓘ |
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: Teej Description of subject: Teej is a traditional Hindu monsoon festival, especially celebrated by women in northern India, marked by fasting, swings, folk songs, and prayers for marital bliss and well-being.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hariyali Teej
this entity surface form:
Hartalika Teej
this entity surface form:
Kajari Teej
this entity surface form:
Vat Savitri Vrat
this entity surface form:
Hartalika Teej (in some regions)
this entity surface form:
Kajari Teej
this entity surface form:
Hariyali Teej
this entity surface form:
Teej festival
this entity surface form:
Teej festival
this entity surface form:
Hartalika Teej
this entity surface form:
Teej Festival
this entity surface form:
Teej festival