March
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March is the third month of the Gregorian calendar, marking the transition from winter to spring in the Northern Hemisphere and often associated with seasonal festivals and observances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| March canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11110335 — 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: March Context triple: [Laetare of Stavelot, occursInMonth, March]
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March
March is a river in Central Europe that flows through countries including Austria, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic before joining the Danube.
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B.
March
March is a fictional family surname most famously associated with the four sisters in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Little Women."
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C.
March
"March" is a critically acclaimed graphic memoir trilogy co-written by civil rights leader John Lewis and Andrew Aydin that chronicles Lewis's experiences in the American civil rights movement.
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D.
March
"March" is Michael Penn's critically acclaimed 1989 debut album, known for its literate songwriting and the hit single "No Myth."
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E.
March
March is a common surname of Spanish origin borne by various notable individuals, including Cuban revolutionary Aleida March.
- 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: March Target entity description: March is the third month of the Gregorian calendar, marking the transition from winter to spring in the Northern Hemisphere and often associated with seasonal festivals and observances.
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A.
March
March is a river in Central Europe that flows through countries including Austria, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic before joining the Danube.
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B.
March
March is a market town in Cambridgeshire, England, known historically as an important railway and river port center in the Fens.
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C.
March
"March" is Michael Penn's critically acclaimed 1989 debut album, known for its literate songwriting and the hit single "No Myth."
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D.
March
"March" is a critically acclaimed graphic memoir trilogy co-written by civil rights leader John Lewis and Andrew Aydin that chronicles Lewis's experiences in the American civil rights movement.
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E.
March
March is a fictional family surname most famously associated with the four sisters in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Little Women."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
calendar month
ⓘ
month ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere
ⓘ
end of summer in the Southern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| birthFlower |
daffodil
ⓘ
jonquil ⓘ |
| birthstone |
aquamarine
ⓘ
bloodstone ⓘ |
| containsEvent | vernal equinox (in most years) ⓘ |
| containsHoliday |
Bangladesh Independence Day
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Common start of Lent-related observances (date varies) ⓘ Commonwealth Day (in some countries) NERFINISHED ⓘ César Chávez Day (some US states) NERFINISHED ⓘ Earth Hour (often in late March) NERFINISHED ⓘ Evacuation Day (Suffolk County, Massachusetts) NERFINISHED ⓘ Greek Independence Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Holi (date varies, often in March) NERFINISHED ⓘ International Day of Happiness NERFINISHED ⓘ International Women’s Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Mother’s Day (in the UK and some others) ⓘ Nowruz (around March, date varies) NERFINISHED ⓘ Pakistan Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Pi Day NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Patrick’s Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas Independence Day NERFINISHED ⓘ World Water Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| etymology | named after Mars, the Roman god of war ⓘ |
| follows | February ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
M
ⓘ
Mar ⓘ Mar. ⓘ |
| hasEnglishName | March ⓘ |
| hasLatinName | Martius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfDays | 31 ⓘ |
| hasZodiacSign |
Aries
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pisces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ISO8601MonthCode | 03 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Gregorian calendar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Julian calendar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInYear | 3 ⓘ |
| precedes | April ⓘ |
| quarterOfYear | first quarter ⓘ |
| typicalSchoolTermContext | spring term (in many Northern Hemisphere countries) GENERATED ⓘ |
| typicalSeasonNorthernHemisphere |
spring
ⓘ
winter ⓘ |
| typicalSeasonSouthernHemisphere |
autumn
ⓘ
summer ⓘ |
| wasFirstMonthIn | early Roman calendar ⓘ |
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: March Description of subject: March is the third month of the Gregorian calendar, marking the transition from winter to spring in the Northern Hemisphere and often associated with seasonal festivals and observances.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Laetare of Stavelot