Storm Desmond
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Storm Desmond was a powerful extratropical cyclone and severe winter storm in December 2015 that brought record-breaking rainfall and widespread flooding to parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Storm Desmond canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7913321 — 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: Storm Desmond Context triple: [Pooley Bridge, bridgeDestroyedBy, Storm Desmond]
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A.
Dora Flood
Dora Flood is a prominent madam and compassionate businesswoman who runs a bordello in John Steinbeck’s novel "Cannery Row."
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B.
Isobel
Isobel is a feminine given name, typically considered a variant of Isabel or Isabella, used in various English-speaking and European cultures.
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C.
Catriona
Catriona is a feminine given name of Gaelic origin, commonly used in Scotland and Ireland and often considered a variant of Katherine.
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D.
Catriona
Catriona is a historical adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson that continues the story begun in Kidnapped, following David Balfour’s further trials and romance in 18th-century Scotland and the Netherlands.
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E.
Moira
Moira is a feminine given name of Greek origin, often considered a variant of Mary and associated with meanings like "fate" or "destiny."
- 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: Storm Desmond Target entity description: Storm Desmond was a powerful extratropical cyclone and severe winter storm in December 2015 that brought record-breaking rainfall and widespread flooding to parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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A.
Dora Flood
Dora Flood is a prominent madam and compassionate businesswoman who runs a bordello in John Steinbeck’s novel "Cannery Row."
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B.
Isobel
Isobel is a feminine given name, typically considered a variant of Isabel or Isabella, used in various English-speaking and European cultures.
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C.
Catriona
Catriona is a feminine given name of Gaelic origin, commonly used in Scotland and Ireland and often considered a variant of Katherine.
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D.
Catriona
Catriona is a historical adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson that continues the story begun in Kidnapped, following David Balfour’s further trials and romance in 18th-century Scotland and the Netherlands.
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E.
Moira
Moira is a feminine given name of Greek origin, often considered a variant of Mary and associated with meanings like "fate" or "destiny."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
European windstorm
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extratropical cyclone ⓘ natural disaster ⓘ winter storm ⓘ |
| affectedRegion |
Carlisle
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County Donegal ⓘ County Galway ⓘ County Mayo ⓘ Cumbria ⓘ Dumfries and Galloway ⓘ Kendal ⓘ Lancashire ⓘ North West England ⓘ Northern England ⓘ Scottish Borders ⓘ Southern Scotland ⓘ
linked to:
southern Scotland
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| associatedRiverFlooding |
River Eden
ⓘ
River Kent ⓘ River Lune ⓘ |
| classification | deep low-pressure system ⓘ |
| countryAffected |
Ireland
ⓘ
Isle of Man ⓘ
linked to:
Isle of Man (crown dependency)
Norway ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| economicDamage | over one billion pounds (approximate) ⓘ |
| endTime | 2015-12-06 ⓘ |
| fatalities | several ⓘ |
| formedOver |
North Atlantic Ocean
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linked to:
North Atlantic
|
| locatedIn |
Ireland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| mainImpact |
power outages
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record-breaking rainfall ⓘ strong winds ⓘ transport disruption ⓘ widespread flooding ⓘ |
| maximumDailyRainfallRecord | 341.4 millimetres at Honister Pass ⓘ |
| maximumDailyRainfallRecordDate | 2015-12-05 ⓘ |
| namedBy | Met Office ⓘ |
| notableFor |
breaking UK 24-hour rainfall records
ⓘ
severe flooding in Cumbria ⓘ |
| partOf | 2015–16 European windstorm season ⓘ |
| rainfallRecordLocation |
Honister Pass, Cumbria
ⓘ
linked to:
Honister Pass
Thirlmere, Cumbria ⓘ
linked to:
Thirlmere
|
| relatedEvent |
Storm Eva
ⓘ
Storm Frank ⓘ |
| season | 2015–16 North Atlantic windstorm season ⓘ |
| startTime | 2015-12-04 ⓘ |
| timeOfYear | December 2015 ⓘ |
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: Storm Desmond Description of subject: Storm Desmond was a powerful extratropical cyclone and severe winter storm in December 2015 that brought record-breaking rainfall and widespread flooding to parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.