Little New Year
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Little New Year is a traditional Chinese festival day, usually preceding the Lunar New Year, when people ceremonially send off and honor the Kitchen God with offerings and household rituals.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Little New Year canonical | 4 |
| Minor New Year | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8798862 — 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: Little New Year Context triple: [Kitchen God, festival, Little New Year]
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A.
New Year
New Year is the celebration marking the beginning of a new calendar year, commonly observed worldwide with festivities, traditions, and public holidays.
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B.
Santa Baby
"Santa Baby" is a playful, flirtatious Christmas song best known from Eartha Kitt’s 1953 recording and frequently covered by later pop artists.
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C.
Lights Before Christmas
Lights Before Christmas is a popular annual holiday light display event held at the Toledo Zoo, featuring elaborate illuminated decorations and festive activities.
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D.
Noel Night
Noel Night is an annual holiday arts and cultural festival in Detroit that features open museums, performances, and community activities throughout the Midtown neighborhood.
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E.
The Night They Saved Christmas
The Night They Saved Christmas is a 1984 family fantasy television film about a family that helps Santa Claus save his North Pole operation from being destroyed by oil drilling.
- 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: Little New Year Target entity description: Little New Year is a traditional Chinese festival day, usually preceding the Lunar New Year, when people ceremonially send off and honor the Kitchen God with offerings and household rituals.
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A.
New Year
New Year is the celebration marking the beginning of a new calendar year, commonly observed worldwide with festivities, traditions, and public holidays.
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B.
Santa Baby
"Santa Baby" is a playful, flirtatious Christmas song best known from Eartha Kitt’s 1953 recording and frequently covered by later pop artists.
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C.
Lights Before Christmas
Lights Before Christmas is a popular annual holiday light display event held at the Toledo Zoo, featuring elaborate illuminated decorations and festive activities.
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D.
Noel Night
Noel Night is an annual holiday arts and cultural festival in Detroit that features open museums, performances, and community activities throughout the Midtown neighborhood.
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E.
The Night They Saved Christmas
The Night They Saved Christmas is a 1984 family fantasy television film about a family that helps Santa Claus save his North Pole operation from being destroyed by oil drilling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural observance
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traditional Chinese festival ⓘ |
| associatedDeity |
Kitchen God
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Zao Jun ⓘ |
| associatedFood |
guandong tang
ⓘ
malt sugar candy ⓘ sticky candy for the Kitchen God ⓘ |
| ChineseName | 小年 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese culture ⓘ |
| dateVariesBy | region ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Festival of the Kitchen God
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Minor New Year ⓘ
linked to:
Little New Year
Xiaonian ⓘ |
| hasAspect |
domestic ritual focus
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family-centered observance ⓘ |
| hasCustom |
beginning New Year preparations
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burning incense at the kitchen altar ⓘ offering sweets to ensure a favorable report from the Kitchen God ⓘ replacing old couplets and images in the kitchen ⓘ thorough house cleaning ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Chinese ⓘ |
| mainRitual |
burning the Kitchen God’s paper image
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honoring the Kitchen God ⓘ household cleaning rituals ⓘ making offerings to the Kitchen God ⓘ pasting a new paper image of the Kitchen God ⓘ preparing for Lunar New Year ⓘ sending off the Kitchen God ⓘ sweeping away bad luck ⓘ |
| observedBy |
Chinese communities worldwide
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Han Chinese ⓘ |
| occursBefore |
Lunar New Year
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linked to:
Spring Festival
Spring Festival ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Chinese New Year
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linked to:
Spring Festival
Kitchen God worship ⓘ Spring Festival customs ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
Chinese folk religion
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Taoism ⓘ |
| symbolism |
farewell to the old year
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inviting good fortune for the coming year ⓘ purification of the household ⓘ sending the Kitchen God to Heaven to report on the family ⓘ |
| timeOfYear | end of the lunar year ⓘ |
| typicalDate |
23rd day of the 12th lunar month
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24th day of the 12th lunar month ⓘ 25th day of the 12th lunar month ⓘ |
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: Little New Year Description of subject: Little New Year is a traditional Chinese festival day, usually preceding the Lunar New Year, when people ceremonially send off and honor the Kitchen God with offerings and household rituals.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Little New Year