1927 Crimean earthquake
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The 1927 Crimean earthquake was a powerful seismic event in the Black Sea region that caused significant damage across Crimea and nearby areas.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 1927 Crimean earthquake canonical | 1 |
| 1927 Crimean earthquakes | 1 |
| 1927 Sevastopol earthquake | 1 |
| 1927 Yalta earthquake | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1552674 — 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: 1927 Crimean earthquake Context triple: [Swallow’s Nest, damagedBy, 1927 Crimean earthquake]
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A.
1755 Lisbon earthquake
The 1755 Lisbon earthquake was a devastating seismic event that struck Portugal’s capital on All Saints’ Day, triggering massive fires and a tsunami, and profoundly influencing European philosophy, science, and urban planning.
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B.
1986 San Salvador earthquake
The 1986 San Salvador earthquake was a devastating magnitude 5.7 tremor that struck El Salvador’s capital region on October 10, 1986, causing widespread destruction and significant loss of life.
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C.
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ is a renowned Turkish archaeologist and Sumerologist known for her pioneering work on cuneiform tablets and the history of ancient Mesopotamia.
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D.
Great Kanto earthquake
The Great Kanto earthquake was a devastating 1923 seismic disaster that struck the Tokyo-Yokohama region of Japan, causing massive destruction and loss of life.
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E.
2010 Haiti earthquake
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 seismic event that struck near Haiti’s capital, causing massive destruction, hundreds of thousands of deaths, and a major international humanitarian crisis.
- 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: 1927 Crimean earthquake Target entity description: The 1927 Crimean earthquake was a powerful seismic event in the Black Sea region that caused significant damage across Crimea and nearby areas.
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A.
1755 Lisbon earthquake
The 1755 Lisbon earthquake was a devastating seismic event that struck Portugal’s capital on All Saints’ Day, triggering massive fires and a tsunami, and profoundly influencing European philosophy, science, and urban planning.
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B.
1986 San Salvador earthquake
The 1986 San Salvador earthquake was a devastating magnitude 5.7 tremor that struck El Salvador’s capital region on October 10, 1986, causing widespread destruction and significant loss of life.
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C.
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ is a renowned Turkish archaeologist and Sumerologist known for her pioneering work on cuneiform tablets and the history of ancient Mesopotamia.
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D.
Great Kanto earthquake
The Great Kanto earthquake was a devastating 1923 seismic disaster that struck the Tokyo-Yokohama region of Japan, causing massive destruction and loss of life.
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E.
2010 Haiti earthquake
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 seismic event that struck near Haiti’s capital, causing massive destruction, hundreds of thousands of deaths, and a major international humanitarian crisis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
earthquake
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natural disaster ⓘ |
| affectedRegion |
Crimea
ⓘ
Sevastopol ⓘ Southern coast of Crimea ⓘ Yalta ⓘ |
| aftershocks | sequence of smaller earthquakes following the main shock ⓘ |
| casualties | at least 12 deaths ⓘ |
| country | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| damage |
landslides along the southern Crimean coast
ⓘ
significant structural damage in Crimean coastal cities ⓘ |
| date | 1927-06-26 ⓘ |
| epicenterLocation | off the southern coast of Crimea in the Black Sea ⓘ |
| injured | dozens of people ⓘ |
| intensityScale |
Mercalli intensity scale
ⓘ
linked to:
Mercalli
|
| location |
Black Sea
ⓘ
Crimea ⓘ |
| magnitude | 6.0 ⓘ |
| magnitudeScale | surface-wave magnitude ⓘ |
| maximumIntensity | VIII ⓘ |
| notableFor | strong shaking felt across Crimea and surrounding regions ⓘ |
| observedPhenomenon | sea level oscillations in the Black Sea ⓘ |
| partOf | seismicity of the Black Sea region ⓘ |
| recordedBy | seismological stations in Europe ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Crimean seismic zone ⓘ |
| tectonicSetting |
Black Sea basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Sea drainage basin
|
| time | 22:20 ⓘ |
| triggered | tsunami ⓘ |
| tsunamiHeight | up to 2 meters ⓘ |
| year | 1927 ⓘ |
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: 1927 Crimean earthquake Description of subject: The 1927 Crimean earthquake was a powerful seismic event in the Black Sea region that caused significant damage across Crimea and nearby areas.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: 1927 Crimean earthquake
linked to: 1927 Crimean earthquake
linked to: 1927 Crimean earthquake