Gawai Sowa
E582807
Gawai Sowa is a traditional harvest and thanksgiving festival celebrated by the Bidayuh people of Borneo, marked by communal rituals, feasting, and cultural performances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gawai Sowa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6295989 — 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: Gawai Sowa Context triple: [Bidayuh people, festival, Gawai Sowa]
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A.
Sanja Matsuri
Sanja Matsuri is one of Tokyo’s largest and most famous Shinto festivals, celebrated annually in Asakusa with lively processions of mikoshi (portable shrines), traditional performances, and large crowds.
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B.
Kanasubigi
Kanasubigi is an ancient Bulgar royal title, often interpreted as a form of "ruler from God" or "sovereign by the grace of God," used by early Bulgarian khans such as Omurtag.
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C.
Saki Matsuri
Saki Matsuri is the first of the two main parade events in Kyoto’s famous Gion Matsuri festival, featuring elaborate floats that process through the city streets in mid-July.
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D.
Kamo Matsuri
Kamo Matsuri is one of Kyoto’s three major traditional festivals, featuring elaborate Heian-period processions to the Kamo Shrines each May.
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E.
Mashujaa Day
Mashujaa Day is a Kenyan national holiday celebrated on October 20th to honor the country’s heroes and heroines who contributed to the struggle for independence and nation-building.
- 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: Gawai Sowa Target entity description: Gawai Sowa is a traditional harvest and thanksgiving festival celebrated by the Bidayuh people of Borneo, marked by communal rituals, feasting, and cultural performances.
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A.
Sanja Matsuri
Sanja Matsuri is one of Tokyo’s largest and most famous Shinto festivals, celebrated annually in Asakusa with lively processions of mikoshi (portable shrines), traditional performances, and large crowds.
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B.
Kanasubigi
Kanasubigi is an ancient Bulgar royal title, often interpreted as a form of "ruler from God" or "sovereign by the grace of God," used by early Bulgarian khans such as Omurtag.
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C.
Saki Matsuri
Saki Matsuri is the first of the two main parade events in Kyoto’s famous Gion Matsuri festival, featuring elaborate floats that process through the city streets in mid-July.
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D.
Kamo Matsuri
Kamo Matsuri is one of Kyoto’s three major traditional festivals, featuring elaborate Heian-period processions to the Kamo Shrines each May.
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E.
Mashujaa Day
Mashujaa Day is a Kenyan national holiday celebrated on October 20th to honor the country’s heroes and heroines who contributed to the struggle for independence and nation-building.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
festival
ⓘ
harvest festival ⓘ |
| associatedWithEthnicGroup | Bidayuh ⓘ |
| celebratedBy | Bidayuh people ⓘ |
| celebrationOf | successful harvest ⓘ |
| country | Malaysia ⓘ |
| culturalType | indigenous festival ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
communal rituals
ⓘ
cultural performances ⓘ feasting ⓘ offerings of thanks ⓘ prayers for good harvest ⓘ traditional dance ⓘ traditional music ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
Bidayuh culture
ⓘ
linked to:
Bidayuh
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| hasTheme |
community solidarity
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gratitude ⓘ harvest ⓘ |
| includes |
sharing of traditional food
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wearing of traditional attire ⓘ |
| languageContext |
Bidayuh languages
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linked to:
Bidayuhic languages
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| locatedIn |
Borneo
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Sarawak ⓘ |
| partOf | Bidayuh ritual calendar ⓘ |
| purpose | thanksgiving for agricultural bounty ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Dayak harvest festivals ⓘ |
| socialFunction | strengthening community bonds ⓘ |
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: Gawai Sowa Description of subject: Gawai Sowa is a traditional harvest and thanksgiving festival celebrated by the Bidayuh people of Borneo, marked by communal rituals, feasting, and cultural performances.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.