Sanja Festival
E815583
The Sanja Festival is one of Tokyo’s largest and most famous Shinto festivals, held annually at Asakusa Shrine and known for its lively parades of portable shrines and vibrant street celebrations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sanja Festival canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9689189 — 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: Sanja Festival Context triple: [Sanja Matsuri, alsoKnownAs, Sanja Festival]
-
A.
Lassanis Festival
The Lassanis Festival is a prominent cultural and arts festival in Kozani, Greece, featuring theater, music, and other performances that attract regional and national audiences.
-
B.
Sogra festival
Sogra festival is a traditional springtime agricultural and fertility celebration of the Tiwa people in Northeast India, marked by communal rituals, dances, and offerings for a good harvest.
-
C.
Tadjah festival
The Tadjah festival is a Caribbean observance of the Islamic mourning rituals of Muharram and Ashura, marked by colorful street processions, elaborate model tombs, and vibrant cultural performances.
-
D.
Naia festival
The Naia festival was an ancient Greek religious and athletic celebration held at Dodona in honor of Zeus Naios, featuring competitions and rituals at the sanctuary’s theater.
-
E.
Sandurot Festival
Sandurot Festival is a cultural celebration in Dumaguete City, Philippines, featuring street dancing, colorful costumes, and events that honor the city’s history of hospitality and diverse heritage.
- 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: Sanja Festival Target entity description: The Sanja Festival is one of Tokyo’s largest and most famous Shinto festivals, held annually at Asakusa Shrine and known for its lively parades of portable shrines and vibrant street celebrations.
-
A.
Lassanis Festival
The Lassanis Festival is a prominent cultural and arts festival in Kozani, Greece, featuring theater, music, and other performances that attract regional and national audiences.
-
B.
Sogra festival
Sogra festival is a traditional springtime agricultural and fertility celebration of the Tiwa people in Northeast India, marked by communal rituals, dances, and offerings for a good harvest.
-
C.
Tadjah festival
The Tadjah festival is a Caribbean observance of the Islamic mourning rituals of Muharram and Ashura, marked by colorful street processions, elaborate model tombs, and vibrant cultural performances.
-
D.
Naia festival
The Naia festival was an ancient Greek religious and athletic celebration held at Dodona in honor of Zeus Naios, featuring competitions and rituals at the sanctuary’s theater.
-
E.
Sandurot Festival
Sandurot Festival is a cultural celebration in Dumaguete City, Philippines, featuring street dancing, colorful costumes, and events that honor the city’s history of hospitality and diverse heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Shinto festival ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Sanja Matsuri ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Asakusa Shrine
ⓘ
Sensō-ji ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
important local community celebration in Asakusa
ⓘ
major event in Tokyo’s traditional festival calendar ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
Hajino Nakatomo
ⓘ
Hamanari Hinokuma ⓘ Takenari Hinokuma ⓘ
linked to:
Hamanari Hinokuma
|
| duration | three days ⓘ |
| estimatedAttendance | over one million visitors ⓘ |
| features |
festival stalls
ⓘ
mikoshi processions through Asakusa ⓘ taiko drumming ⓘ traditional costumes ⓘ yatai food stands ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre | matsuri ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Festivals in Tokyo
ⓘ
Shinto festivals in Japan ⓘ |
| hasProcessionType |
parade of three main shrine mikoshi
ⓘ
parade of town association mikoshi ⓘ |
| heldInMonth | May ⓘ |
| honors | three founders of Sensō-ji ⓘ |
| knownFor |
crowded street processions
ⓘ
energetic atmosphere ⓘ large crowds ⓘ parades of mikoshi ⓘ portable shrines ⓘ traditional festival music ⓘ vibrant street celebrations ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Asakusa
ⓘ
Asakusa Shrine ⓘ Taitō, Tokyo ⓘ
linked to:
Taitō, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo ⓘ |
| mainVenue |
Asakusa Shrine grounds
ⓘ
linked to:
Asakusa Shrine
streets around Sensō-ji ⓘ |
| oneOf |
largest festivals in Tokyo
ⓘ
most famous Shinto festivals in Tokyo ⓘ |
| organisedBy | Asakusa Shrine authorities ⓘ |
| region | Kantō region ⓘ |
| religion | Shinto ⓘ |
| theme |
community unity
ⓘ
veneration of shrine deities ⓘ |
| typicalEndDay | following Sunday ⓘ |
| typicalStartDay | third Friday of May ⓘ |
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: Sanja Festival Description of subject: The Sanja Festival is one of Tokyo’s largest and most famous Shinto festivals, held annually at Asakusa Shrine and known for its lively parades of portable shrines and vibrant street celebrations.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.