Rochester Lilac Festival
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The Rochester Lilac Festival is an annual spring celebration in Rochester, New York, renowned for its extensive lilac collections, live music, food, and community events.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lilac Time festival | 2 |
| Rochester Lilac Festival canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6115844 — 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: Rochester Lilac Festival Context triple: [Highland Park (Rochester, New York), eventHosted, Rochester Lilac Festival]
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A.
Lilac Festival
The Lilac Festival is an annual spring celebration in Lombard, Illinois, featuring blooming lilacs, parades, garden tours, and community events.
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B.
Tulip Time Festival
The Tulip Time Festival is an annual spring celebration in Holland, Michigan, featuring millions of blooming tulips, Dutch heritage parades, traditional costumes, and cultural events.
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C.
Tulip Time Festival
Tulip Time Festival is an annual Dutch heritage and tulip-themed celebration in Pella, Iowa, featuring parades, traditional costumes, and cultural events.
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D.
Mackinac Island Lilac Festival
The Mackinac Island Lilac Festival is an annual early-summer celebration on Michigan’s Mackinac Island featuring parades, garden tours, and events centered around the island’s historic and abundant lilac trees.
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E.
Orange City Tulip Festival
The Orange City Tulip Festival is an annual spring celebration in Orange City, Iowa, featuring Dutch heritage traditions, tulip displays, parades, and cultural performances.
- 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: Rochester Lilac Festival Target entity description: The Rochester Lilac Festival is an annual spring celebration in Rochester, New York, renowned for its extensive lilac collections, live music, food, and community events.
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A.
Lilac Festival
The Lilac Festival is an annual spring celebration in Lombard, Illinois, featuring blooming lilacs, parades, garden tours, and community events.
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B.
Tulip Time Festival
The Tulip Time Festival is an annual spring celebration in Holland, Michigan, featuring millions of blooming tulips, Dutch heritage parades, traditional costumes, and cultural events.
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C.
Tulip Time Festival
Tulip Time Festival is an annual Dutch heritage and tulip-themed celebration in Pella, Iowa, featuring parades, traditional costumes, and cultural events.
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D.
Mackinac Island Lilac Festival
The Mackinac Island Lilac Festival is an annual early-summer celebration on Michigan’s Mackinac Island featuring parades, garden tours, and events centered around the island’s historic and abundant lilac trees.
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E.
Orange City Tulip Festival
The Orange City Tulip Festival is an annual spring celebration in Orange City, Iowa, featuring Dutch heritage traditions, tulip displays, parades, and cultural performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
annual festival
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flower festival ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| attracts |
local visitors
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national tourists ⓘ regional tourists ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| hasActivity |
5K and 10K races
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arts and crafts shows ⓘ children’s activities ⓘ concerts ⓘ food tastings ⓘ parades ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAspect |
community gathering
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food ⓘ music ⓘ visual arts ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
arts and crafts
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community events ⓘ extensive lilac collection ⓘ family activities ⓘ food vendors ⓘ live music ⓘ parades ⓘ |
| hasImpact |
promotes tourism in Rochester
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showcases Highland Park’s horticulture ⓘ supports local businesses ⓘ |
| hasMainTheme |
lilac flowers
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spring celebration ⓘ |
| hasPlantCollection |
flowering trees
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lilac shrubs ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
family-friendly atmosphere
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free outdoor concerts ⓘ large variety of lilac species and cultivars ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Rochester cultural events calendar ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Monroe County, New York
NERFINISHED
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Rochester, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainVenue | Highland Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| organizer |
Monroe County Parks Department
NERFINISHED
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Visit Rochester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recurs | annually ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| typicalMonth | May ⓘ |
| typicalSeason | spring ⓘ |
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: Rochester Lilac Festival Description of subject: The Rochester Lilac Festival is an annual spring celebration in Rochester, New York, renowned for its extensive lilac collections, live music, food, and community events.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Highland Park (Rochester, New York)
subject surface form:
Highland Park (Rochester, New York)
this entity surface form:
Lilac Time festival
this entity surface form:
Lilac Time festival