Islamic New Year
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Islamic New Year is the religious observance that marks the beginning of the Islamic lunar calendar year, commemorated on the first day of the month of Muharram by Muslims worldwide.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Islamic New Year canonical | 2 |
| Hijri New Year | 1 |
| Islamic New Year (Iraq) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9718679 — 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: Islamic New Year Context triple: [Islamic holidays, majorCategory, Islamic New Year]
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A.
Islamic lunar calendar
The Islamic lunar calendar is a purely lunar, 12‑month religious calendar used by Muslims worldwide to determine the dates of Islamic holidays, rituals, and events.
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B.
Hijri calendar
The Hijri calendar is a lunar-based Islamic calendar used primarily to determine the dates of religious observances and events in the Muslim world.
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C.
Islamic holidays
Islamic holidays are religious observances in Islam that mark significant spiritual, historical, and ritual events in the Muslim calendar, such as major festivals, days of worship, and commemorations.
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D.
Ramadan
Ramadan is the Islamic holy month of fasting, prayer, reflection, and community observed annually by Muslims worldwide.
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E.
Eid al-Fitr
Eid al-Fitr is a major Islamic festival that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan with communal prayers, feasting, charity, and celebration.
- 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: Islamic New Year Target entity description: Islamic New Year is the religious observance that marks the beginning of the Islamic lunar calendar year, commemorated on the first day of the month of Muharram by Muslims worldwide.
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A.
Islamic lunar calendar
The Islamic lunar calendar is a purely lunar, 12‑month religious calendar used by Muslims worldwide to determine the dates of Islamic holidays, rituals, and events.
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B.
Hijri calendar
The Hijri calendar is a lunar-based Islamic calendar used primarily to determine the dates of religious observances and events in the Muslim world.
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C.
Islamic holidays
Islamic holidays are religious observances in Islam that mark significant spiritual, historical, and ritual events in the Muslim calendar, such as major festivals, days of worship, and commemorations.
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D.
Ramadan
Ramadan is the Islamic holy month of fasting, prayer, reflection, and community observed annually by Muslims worldwide.
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E.
Eid al-Fitr
Eid al-Fitr is a major Islamic festival that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan with communal prayers, feasting, charity, and celebration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
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: Islamic New Year Description of subject: Islamic New Year is the religious observance that marks the beginning of the Islamic lunar calendar year, commemorated on the first day of the month of Muharram by Muslims worldwide.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Islamic New Year
linked to: Islamic New Year