Yom HaShoah
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Yom HaShoah is Israel’s national Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust and honoring Jewish resistance.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T75885 — 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: Yom HaShoah Context triple: [International Holocaust Remembrance Day, relatedTo, Yom HaShoah]
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A.
InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is a global memorial day observed annually on January 27 to honor the victims of the Holocaust and promote education about the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime.
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B.
Holocaust Memorial Day (UK)
Holocaust Memorial Day (UK) is the United Kingdom’s national day of remembrance for the Holocaust and other genocides, marked annually with commemorative events, education, and reflection on the dangers of hatred and intolerance.
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C.
YadVashem
Yad Vashem is Israel’s official memorial and research center dedicated to documenting, studying, and commemorating the Holocaust and its victims.
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D.
Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered six million Jews and millions of other targeted groups across Europe.
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E.
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht was a state-organized pogrom against Jews in Nazi Germany in November 1938, marked by widespread violence, destruction of synagogues and Jewish property, and mass arrests that signaled a major escalation toward the Holocaust.
- 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: Yom HaShoah Target entity description: Yom HaShoah is Israel’s national Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust and honoring Jewish resistance.
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A.
InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is a global memorial day observed annually on January 27 to honor the victims of the Holocaust and promote education about the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime.
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B.
Holocaust Memorial Day (UK)
Holocaust Memorial Day (UK) is the United Kingdom’s national day of remembrance for the Holocaust and other genocides, marked annually with commemorative events, education, and reflection on the dangers of hatred and intolerance.
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C.
YadVashem
Yad Vashem is Israel’s official memorial and research center dedicated to documenting, studying, and commemorating the Holocaust and its victims.
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D.
Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered six million Jews and millions of other targeted groups across Europe.
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E.
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht was a state-organized pogrom against Jews in Nazi Germany in November 1938, marked by widespread violence, destruction of synagogues and Jewish property, and mass arrests that signaled a major escalation toward the Holocaust.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Holocaust remembrance day
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Israeli national holiday ⓘ memorial day ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Yom HaShoah
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surface form:
Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day
Yom HaShoah ⓘ
surface form:
Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day
Yom HaShoah ⓘ
surface form:
Yom HaShoah veHaGevurah
|
| calendar | Hebrew calendar ⓘ |
| commemorates |
Holocaust
ⓘ
Jewish resistance during the Holocaust ⓘ six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust ⓘ victims of Nazi persecution ⓘ |
| country | Israel ⓘ |
| custom |
closing of places of entertainment in Israel
ⓘ
educational programs about the Holocaust ⓘ lighting of memorial candles ⓘ lowering flags to half-mast in Israel ⓘ memorial prayers and Kaddish ⓘ public standstill during siren in Israel ⓘ recitation of names of Holocaust victims ⓘ state ceremonies at Yad Vashem ⓘ two-minute siren in Israel ⓘ |
| dateRule |
27 Nisan
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27th day of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar ⓘ |
| establishedBy | Knesset ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| lawEnacted | 1953 ⓘ |
| legalStatus | Israeli national memorial day ⓘ |
| literalMeaning |
Yom HaShoah
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Day of the Holocaust
|
| observedBy |
Jewish communities worldwide
ⓘ
Israel ⓘ
surface form:
State of Israel
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| partOf |
Israeli civil calendar
ⓘ
Jewish cycle of Holocaust remembrance ⓘ |
| precededBy | Passover ⓘ |
| primaryLocationOfStateCeremony |
YadVashem
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surface form:
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
|
| relatedHoliday |
InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay
ⓘ
surface form:
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Tisha BAv ⓘ
surface form:
Tisha B'Av
Yom Ha’atzmaut ⓘ
surface form:
Yom HaAtzmaut
Yom HaZikaron ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| theme |
collective mourning
ⓘ
education about the Holocaust ⓘ heroism and resistance ⓘ remembrance of Holocaust victims ⓘ |
| typeOfDay | day of remembrance ⓘ |
| typicalGregorianTiming |
April
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early May ⓘ |
| yearEstablished | 1951 ⓘ |
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Input
Subject: Yom HaShoah Description of subject: Yom HaShoah is Israel’s national Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust and honoring Jewish resistance.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
this entity surface form:
Yom HaShoah veHaGevurah
this entity surface form:
Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day
this entity surface form:
Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day
this entity surface form:
Day of the Holocaust
subject surface form:
Yom HaShoah
this entity surface form:
Yom HaShoah Ve-Hagevurah
this entity surface form:
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah)
subject surface form:
Raoul Wallenberg Day
this entity surface form:
Yom HaShoah ceremonies