Homowo
E701105
Homowo is a major traditional harvest festival of the Ga people of Ghana, marked by rituals, drumming, dancing, and the symbolic “hooting at hunger.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Homowo canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7878771 — 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: Homowo Context triple: [Teshie, hasFestival, Homowo]
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A.
Homoine
Homoine is a town in southern Mozambique’s Inhambane Province, known primarily as a rural administrative and agricultural center.
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B.
Unhos
Unhos is a civil parish in the municipality of Loures, within the Lisbon District of Portugal.
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C.
Wormegay
Wormegay is a small rural village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, known for its agricultural landscape and historic setting near the River Great Ouse.
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D.
Heno
Heno is a Welsh-language television magazine programme broadcast on S4C, featuring news, interviews, and cultural stories from across Wales.
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E.
Maashees
Maashees is a small village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, situated along the river Meuse and known for its rural character and historic church.
- 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: Homowo Target entity description: Homowo is a major traditional harvest festival of the Ga people of Ghana, marked by rituals, drumming, dancing, and the symbolic “hooting at hunger.”
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A.
Homoine
Homoine is a town in southern Mozambique’s Inhambane Province, known primarily as a rural administrative and agricultural center.
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B.
Unhos
Unhos is a civil parish in the municipality of Loures, within the Lisbon District of Portugal.
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C.
Wormegay
Wormegay is a small rural village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, known for its agricultural landscape and historic setting near the River Great Ouse.
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D.
Heno
Heno is a Welsh-language television magazine programme broadcast on S4C, featuring news, interviews, and cultural stories from across Wales.
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E.
Maashees
Maashees is a small village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, situated along the river Meuse and known for its rural character and historic church.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural event
ⓘ
festival ⓘ harvest festival ⓘ |
| basedOn | traditional Ga calendar ⓘ |
| celebratedBy | Ga people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralLocation |
Ga Mashie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jamestown NERFINISHED ⓘ Ussher Town NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Ghana ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
affirmation of social cohesion
ⓘ
intergenerational family reunion ⓘ marker of Ga identity ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupContext | Ga-Adangbe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
dancing
ⓘ
drumming ⓘ feasting ⓘ singing ⓘ traditional prayers ⓘ |
| hasDanceType | traditional Ga dances ⓘ |
| hasMusicType | traditional Ga drumming ⓘ |
| hasRitual |
hooting at hunger
ⓘ
libation pouring ⓘ procession of chiefs ⓘ sprinkling of kpokpoi ⓘ visiting family houses ⓘ |
| hasSymbolicMeaning |
celebration of bumper harvest
ⓘ
mocking hunger ⓘ remembrance of past famine ⓘ thanksgiving to deities and ancestors ⓘ |
| languageOfSongs | Ga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainFood |
kpokpoi
ⓘ
palm-nut soup ⓘ |
| observedIn |
Accra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
La ⓘ Nungua NERFINISHED ⓘ Osu NERFINISHED ⓘ Tema NERFINISHED ⓘ Teshie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| preFestivalRitual |
ban on drumming
ⓘ
ban on noise-making ⓘ fasting and purification ⓘ planting of maize ⓘ |
| region | Greater Accra Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Ga traditional religion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousSignificance |
honouring ancestors
ⓘ
invoking protection for the coming year ⓘ |
| timeOfYear |
August
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
September NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Homowo Description of subject: Homowo is a major traditional harvest festival of the Ga people of Ghana, marked by rituals, drumming, dancing, and the symbolic “hooting at hunger.”
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.