Dussehra
E63872
Dussehra is a major Hindu festival that celebrates the victory of good over evil, most prominently marked in northern India by the burning of effigies of the demon king Ravana.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dussehra canonical | 14 |
| Vijayadashami | 8 |
| Dasara | 5 |
| Dussehra festival | 2 |
| Bastar Dussehra | 1 |
| Dussehra (traditional effigy festival) | 1 |
| Ganga Dussehra | 1 |
| Kullu Dussehra | 1 |
| Vijaya Dashami | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T502455 — 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: Dussehra Context triple: [Northern India, hasMajorFestival, Dussehra]
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A.
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.
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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.
Ganesh Chaturthi
Ganesh Chaturthi is a major Hindu festival celebrating the birth of Lord Ganesha, marked by elaborate worship, public processions, and the immersion of his idols in water.
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D.
Vaisakhi
Vaisakhi is a major spring harvest festival and Sikh religious celebration marking the formation of the Khalsa and the Punjabi New Year.
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E.
Teej
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.
- 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: Dussehra Target entity description: Dussehra is a major Hindu festival that celebrates the victory of good over evil, most prominently marked in northern India by the burning of effigies of the demon king Ravana.
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A.
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.
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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.
Ganesh Chaturthi
Ganesh Chaturthi is a major Hindu festival celebrating the birth of Lord Ganesha, marked by elaborate worship, public processions, and the immersion of his idols in water.
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D.
Vaisakhi
Vaisakhi is a major spring harvest festival and Sikh religious celebration marking the formation of the Khalsa and the Punjabi New Year.
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E.
Teej
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu festival
ⓘ
public holiday in India ⓘ religious festival ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Dussehra
ⓘ
surface form:
Dasara
Dussehra ⓘ
surface form:
Vijayadashami
|
| associatedConcept |
Durga Puja
ⓘ
Navaratri ⓘ Ramleela ⓘ
surface form:
Ramlila
|
| associatedWithDeity |
Devi
ⓘ
surface form:
Durga
Rama ⓘ |
| associatedWithEpic | Ramayana ⓘ |
| calendarSystem | Hindu lunisolar calendar ⓘ |
| calendarType | lunar calendar ⓘ |
| celebrates | victory of good over evil ⓘ |
| commemorates |
end of Navaratri festival
ⓘ
victory of Lord Rama over Ravana ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | major autumn festival in India ⓘ |
| fallsInMonth | Ashvin ⓘ |
| fallsOn | tenth day of Ashvin ⓘ |
| features |
community gatherings
ⓘ
fairs and melas ⓘ fireworks displays ⓘ theatrical enactments of Ramayana ⓘ |
| followedBy | Diwali in many regions ⓘ |
| mainRitual |
Ramlila performances
ⓘ
burning of Ravana effigies ⓘ processions with idols of Durga in eastern India ⓘ |
| marksEndOf |
Durga Puja in some regions
ⓘ
Navaratri ⓘ |
| mythologicalEvent |
slaying of Ravana by Rama
ⓘ
victory of goddess Durga over Mahishasura in some traditions ⓘ |
| observedBy |
Hinduism
ⓘ
surface form:
Hindus
|
| observedInCountry |
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
ⓘ
surface form:
Bangladesh
India ⓘ Nepal ⓘ Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| observedInRegion | South Asia ⓘ |
| precededBy | Navaratri ⓘ |
| publicHolidayIn |
India
ⓘ
Nepal ⓘ some Indian states as state holiday ⓘ |
| regionalVariation |
Durga-centric celebrations in West Bengal and eastern India
ⓘ
Mysore Dasara celebrations in Karnataka ⓘ Rama-centric celebrations in North India ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
destruction of evil forces
ⓘ
triumph of dharma over adharma ⓘ |
| typicalGregorianMonth |
October
ⓘ
September ⓘ |
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: Dussehra Description of subject: Dussehra is a major Hindu festival that celebrates the victory of good over evil, most prominently marked in northern India by the burning of effigies of the demon king Ravana.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Northern India
this entity surface form:
Vijayadashami
this entity surface form:
Ganga Dussehra
this entity surface form:
Dasara
this entity surface form:
Vijayadashami
this entity surface form:
Dasara
this entity surface form:
Kullu Dussehra
this entity surface form:
Vijayadashami
subject surface form:
Durga Mandir (Varanasi)
this entity surface form:
Vijayadashami
this entity surface form:
Vijaya Dashami
this entity surface form:
Dussehra festival
this entity surface form:
Vijayadashami
this entity surface form:
Dasara
this entity surface form:
Vijayadashami
this entity surface form:
Dasara
this entity surface form:
Dasara
this entity surface form:
Dussehra (traditional effigy festival)
this entity surface form:
Vijayadashami
this entity surface form:
Vijayadashami