Saint Sava Day
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Saint Sava Day is a major Serbian Orthodox religious and national holiday honoring Saint Sava, the first Archbishop of the Serbian Church and a key figure in Serbian cultural and spiritual history.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint Sava Day canonical | 1 |
| Slava (patron saint celebration) | 1 |
| St. Sava Day | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T626438 — 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: Saint Sava Day Context triple: [Serbian Orthodox Church, hasMajorFeast, Saint Sava Day]
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A.
Pentecostarion
The Pentecostarion is an Eastern Christian liturgical book used in the Byzantine Rite that contains the hymns and services for the period from Easter (Pascha) through the Sunday after Pentecost.
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B.
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is a major Christian liturgical celebration commemorating the discovery and veneration of the True Cross and honoring the saving power of Christ’s crucifixion.
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C.
Dormition Fast
The Dormition Fast is a two-week period of fasting and spiritual preparation in Eastern Christianity leading up to the feast commemorating the death and assumption of the Virgin Mary.
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D.
King's Day
King's Day is a nationwide Dutch holiday celebrated each April with street festivals, orange-themed festivities, and open-air markets honoring the birthday of the reigning monarch.
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E.
Feast of the Theophany
The Feast of the Theophany is a major Christian celebration, especially in Eastern traditions, commemorating the revelation of the Holy Trinity at the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River.
- 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: Saint Sava Day Target entity description: Saint Sava Day is a major Serbian Orthodox religious and national holiday honoring Saint Sava, the first Archbishop of the Serbian Church and a key figure in Serbian cultural and spiritual history.
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A.
Pentecostarion
The Pentecostarion is an Eastern Christian liturgical book used in the Byzantine Rite that contains the hymns and services for the period from Easter (Pascha) through the Sunday after Pentecost.
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B.
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is a major Christian liturgical celebration commemorating the discovery and veneration of the True Cross and honoring the saving power of Christ’s crucifixion.
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C.
Dormition Fast
The Dormition Fast is a two-week period of fasting and spiritual preparation in Eastern Christianity leading up to the feast commemorating the death and assumption of the Virgin Mary.
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D.
King's Day
King's Day is a nationwide Dutch holiday celebrated each April with street festivals, orange-themed festivities, and open-air markets honoring the birthday of the reigning monarch.
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E.
Feast of the Theophany
The Feast of the Theophany is a major Christian celebration, especially in Eastern traditions, commemorating the revelation of the Holy Trinity at the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Orthodox Christian feast day
ⓘ
Serbian national holiday ⓘ religious holiday ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Savindan ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Serbian Church autonomy
ⓘ
Serbian culture ⓘ Serbian education ⓘ |
| category |
Christian feast days
ⓘ
Serbian Orthodox holidays ⓘ Serbian national holidays ⓘ |
| commemorates | death of Saint Sava ⓘ |
| country | Serbia ⓘ |
| culturalRole | symbol of Serbian national and spiritual unity ⓘ |
| dateObserved | 27 January ⓘ |
| dateObservedOldStyle | 14 January (Julian calendar) ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| hasCentralFigure |
Saint Sava
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surface form:
Saint Sava, first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church
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| honoredPersonRole |
first Archbishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church
ⓘ
founder of Serbian medieval law and education ⓘ |
| honors | Saint Sava ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Serbian ⓘ |
| linkedTo | Serbian school patron-saint celebrations ⓘ |
| liturgicalRank | feast day ⓘ |
| monthObserved | January ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Saint Sava ⓘ |
| observedBy |
Serbian Orthodox Church
ⓘ
surface form:
Serbian Orthodox Christians
Serbs ⓘ
surface form:
Serbs in the diaspora
|
| patronOf | schools in Serbia ⓘ |
| publicHolidayStatus | important school and church holiday in Serbia ⓘ |
| region | Balkans ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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surface form:
Eastern Orthodoxy
Serbian Orthodox Church ⓘ |
| SerbianName | Савиндан ⓘ |
| significance |
celebration of Serbian spiritual and cultural identity
ⓘ
celebration of the first Archbishop of the Serbian Church ⓘ |
| symbolizes | connection between church, education, and nation in Serbia ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfOrigin | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| typicalActivities |
church services
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cultural programs ⓘ recitations and performances by pupils ⓘ religious processions ⓘ school ceremonies ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Saint Sava Day Description of subject: Saint Sava Day is a major Serbian Orthodox religious and national holiday honoring Saint Sava, the first Archbishop of the Serbian Church and a key figure in Serbian cultural and spiritual history.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Slava (patron saint celebration)
this entity surface form:
St. Sava Day