Bisket Jatra
E828578
Bisket Jatra is a major Newar spring festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, celebrated with chariot processions, tug-of-war events, and rituals marking the traditional New Year.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bisket Jatra canonical | 2 |
| Bisket Jatra (local observance) | 1 |
| Bisket Jatra festival | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9874068 — 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: Bisket Jatra Context triple: [Newar, festivalsInclude, Bisket Jatra]
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A.
Indra Jatra
Indra Jatra is a major traditional festival of Kathmandu, Nepal, celebrated with chariot processions, masked dances, and rituals honoring the god Indra and the living goddess Kumari.
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B.
Antarjali Jatra
Antarjali Jatra is a critically acclaimed Indian Bengali film directed by Goutam Ghose that explores social and religious oppression in 19th-century Bengal.
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C.
Rato Machhindranath Jatra
Rato Machhindranath Jatra is a major traditional chariot festival in the Kathmandu Valley, celebrated for invoking rain and good harvests and deeply rooted in the cultural and religious life of Patan.
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D.
Keslapur Jathra
Keslapur Jathra is a major tribal religious fair in Telangana, India, celebrated by the Gond community in honor of their deity Nagoba.
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E.
Ambubachi Mela
Ambubachi Mela is an annual Hindu fertility and tantric festival held at the Kamakhya Temple in Assam, marking the goddess Kamakhya’s yearly menstrual cycle and attracting large numbers of pilgrims and sadhus.
- 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: Bisket Jatra Target entity description: Bisket Jatra is a major Newar spring festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, celebrated with chariot processions, tug-of-war events, and rituals marking the traditional New Year.
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A.
Indra Jatra
Indra Jatra is a major traditional festival of Kathmandu, Nepal, celebrated with chariot processions, masked dances, and rituals honoring the god Indra and the living goddess Kumari.
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B.
Antarjali Jatra
Antarjali Jatra is a critically acclaimed Indian Bengali film directed by Goutam Ghose that explores social and religious oppression in 19th-century Bengal.
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C.
Rato Machhindranath Jatra
Rato Machhindranath Jatra is a major traditional chariot festival in the Kathmandu Valley, celebrated for invoking rain and good harvests and deeply rooted in the cultural and religious life of Patan.
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D.
Keslapur Jathra
Keslapur Jathra is a major tribal religious fair in Telangana, India, celebrated by the Gond community in honor of their deity Nagoba.
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E.
Ambubachi Mela
Ambubachi Mela is an annual Hindu fertility and tantric festival held at the Kamakhya Temple in Assam, marking the goddess Kamakhya’s yearly menstrual cycle and attracting large numbers of pilgrims and sadhus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Newar festival
ⓘ
festival ⓘ |
| alsoCelebratedIn |
Bode
ⓘ
Thimi ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Newar lunar-solar traditions
ⓘ
agrarian cycle ⓘ beginning of the new year ⓘ end of the old year ⓘ |
| attracts |
domestic tourists
ⓘ
international tourists ⓘ local pilgrims ⓘ |
| calendar | Nepal Sambat ⓘ |
| centerOfProcession | Taumadhi Square ⓘ |
| chariotOf |
Bhadra Kali
ⓘ
linked to:
Kalika Devi
Bhairab ⓘ |
| country | Nepal ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
important Newar heritage festival
ⓘ
major festival of Bhaktapur ⓘ |
| duration | several days ⓘ |
| endsOn | 5th day of the Baisakh month ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Newar ⓘ |
| featuresDeity |
Bhadra Kali
ⓘ
linked to:
Goddess Kali
Bhairab ⓘ |
| knownFor |
crowded street celebrations
ⓘ
intense tug-of-war over chariots ⓘ large wooden chariots ⓘ |
| languageCommunity | Nepal Bhasa speakers ⓘ |
| localNameLanguage |
Nepal Bhasa
ⓘ
linked to:
Newar language
|
| locatedIn |
Bagmati Province
ⓘ
Bhaktapur ⓘ Bhaktapur District ⓘ |
| mainCity | Bhaktapur ⓘ |
| mainEvent |
chariot procession
ⓘ
pole erection ritual ⓘ pole pulling ritual ⓘ tug-of-war ⓘ |
| marks | New Year according to the solar Newar calendar ⓘ |
| monthInGregorianCalendar | April ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Hinduism ⓘ |
| ritual |
erection of a ceremonial wooden pole (lingo)
ⓘ
procession of Bhadra Kali chariot ⓘ procession of Bhairab chariot ⓘ pulling down of the ceremonial wooden pole ⓘ |
| startsOn | last day of the Chaitra month ⓘ |
| timeOfYear | spring ⓘ |
| tugOfWarBetween |
lower town residents
ⓘ
upper town residents ⓘ |
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: Bisket Jatra Description of subject: Bisket Jatra is a major Newar spring festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, celebrated with chariot processions, tug-of-war events, and rituals marking the traditional New Year.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bisket Jatra
linked to: Bisket Jatra