Saint Andrew's Day
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Saint Andrew's Day is a Scottish national celebration held annually on 30 November in honor of Saint Andrew, the country's patron saint.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Saint Andrew's Day canonical | 6 |
| St Andrew's Day | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T734223 — 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 Andrew's Day Context triple: [Scotland, nationalDay, Saint Andrew's Day]
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A.
Saint David's Day
Saint David's Day is the annual Welsh cultural and religious celebration held on 1 March in honor of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales.
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B.
St George's Day
St George's Day is a Christian feast day and national celebration in several countries, notably England, honoring St George as their patron saint.
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C.
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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D.
St. Patrick's Day
St. Patrick's Day is an Irish cultural and religious holiday celebrated on March 17, widely known for parades, wearing green, and festivities honoring Ireland and its patron saint.
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E.
Great Union Day
Great Union Day is Romania’s national holiday commemorating the 1918 unification of Transylvania and other regions with the Romanian Kingdom, celebrated annually on December 1.
- 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 Andrew's Day Target entity description: Saint Andrew's Day is a Scottish national celebration held annually on 30 November in honor of Saint Andrew, the country's patron saint.
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A.
Saint David's Day
Saint David's Day is the annual Welsh cultural and religious celebration held on 1 March in honor of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales.
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B.
St George's Day
St George's Day is a Christian feast day and national celebration in several countries, notably England, honoring St George as their patron saint.
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C.
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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D.
St. Patrick's Day
St. Patrick's Day is an Irish cultural and religious holiday celebrated on March 17, widely known for parades, wearing green, and festivities honoring Ireland and its patron saint.
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E.
Great Union Day
Great Union Day is Romania’s national holiday commemorating the 1918 unification of Transylvania and other regions with the Romanian Kingdom, celebrated annually on December 1.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian feast day
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national day ⓘ public holiday in Scotland ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Scottish culture
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Scottish diaspora ⓘ Scottish nationalism ⓘ |
| celebratedWith |
Scottish dancing
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Scottish flags ⓘ Scottish music ⓘ ceilidhs ⓘ traditional Scottish food ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| date | 30 November ⓘ |
| dayOfYear | 334 ⓘ |
| follows | St Catherine's Day ⓘ |
| honours | Saint Andrew ⓘ |
| introducedByLaw | St Andrew's Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007 ⓘ |
| legalStatusInScotland |
bank holiday
ⓘ
public holiday for some workers ⓘ schools may close ⓘ |
| liturgicalColor | red ⓘ |
| month | November ⓘ |
| observedIn |
Barbados
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Bulgaria ⓘ Chile ⓘ Colombia ⓘ Cyprus ⓘ European Union ⓘ Germany ⓘ Greece ⓘ Italy ⓘ Malta ⓘ Philippines ⓘ Poland ⓘ Portugal ⓘ Romania ⓘ Russia ⓘ Scotland ⓘ Scots communities worldwide ⓘ Ukraine ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| patronSaint |
Saint Andrew
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surface form:
Saint Andrew the Apostle
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| patronSaintOf | Scotland ⓘ |
| precedes |
Saint Nicholas Day
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surface form:
St Nicholas Day
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| relatedHoliday |
Burns Night
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Saint David's Day ⓘ St George's Day ⓘ
surface form:
Saint George's Day
St. Patrick's Day ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Patrick's Day
|
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| symbol |
Saltire
ⓘ
Saltire ⓘ
surface form:
St Andrew's Cross
|
| typeOfHoliday | feast of an apostle ⓘ |
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: Saint Andrew's Day Description of subject: Saint Andrew's Day is a Scottish national celebration held annually on 30 November in honor of Saint Andrew, the country's patron saint.
Referenced by (11)
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