Great Famine of 1315–1317
E91408
The Great Famine of 1315–1317 was a devastating pan-European food crisis marked by widespread crop failures, mass starvation, and social upheaval that profoundly weakened medieval European society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Great Famine of 1315–1317 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T771402 — 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: Great Famine of 1315–1317 Context triple: [Late Middle Ages, hasMajorEvent, Great Famine of 1315–1317]
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A.
Great Famine
The Great Famine was a catastrophic mid-19th-century potato blight in Ireland that caused mass starvation, disease, and a huge wave of emigration, particularly to North America.
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B.
Great Plague of London
The Great Plague of London was a devastating outbreak of bubonic plague in 1665–1666 that killed a large portion of the city’s population and marked the last major epidemic of its kind in England.
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C.
Black Death
The Black Death was a devastating 14th-century pandemic of bubonic plague that killed tens of millions of people in Europe, Asia, and North Africa and profoundly reshaped medieval society.
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D.
Great Holland Fire of 1871
The Great Holland Fire of 1871 was a devastating conflagration that destroyed much of Holland, Michigan, during the same period as the Great Chicago Fire and other major Midwest fires.
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E.
Holodomor
The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that caused the deaths of millions of Ukrainians and is widely regarded as a genocide.
- 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: Great Famine of 1315–1317 Target entity description: The Great Famine of 1315–1317 was a devastating pan-European food crisis marked by widespread crop failures, mass starvation, and social upheaval that profoundly weakened medieval European society.
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A.
Great Famine
The Great Famine was a catastrophic mid-19th-century potato blight in Ireland that caused mass starvation, disease, and a huge wave of emigration, particularly to North America.
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B.
Great Plague of London
The Great Plague of London was a devastating outbreak of bubonic plague in 1665–1666 that killed a large portion of the city’s population and marked the last major epidemic of its kind in England.
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C.
Black Death
The Black Death was a devastating 14th-century pandemic of bubonic plague that killed tens of millions of people in Europe, Asia, and North Africa and profoundly reshaped medieval society.
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D.
Great Holland Fire of 1871
The Great Holland Fire of 1871 was a devastating conflagration that destroyed much of Holland, Michigan, during the same period as the Great Chicago Fire and other major Midwest fires.
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E.
Holodomor
The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that caused the deaths of millions of Ukrainians and is widely regarded as a genocide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
disaster
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famine ⓘ historical event ⓘ |
| chronology | early 14th century European crisis ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
manorial accounts
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medieval chronicles ⓘ tax records ⓘ |
| endTime | 1317 ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
demographic history
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economic history ⓘ environmental history ⓘ medieval history ⓘ |
| hasCause |
cold weather
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crop failures ⓘ grain shortages ⓘ livestock disease ⓘ prolonged heavy rainfall ⓘ |
| hasEffect |
abandonment of marginal lands
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changes in land use ⓘ crime increase ⓘ decline in agricultural productivity ⓘ decline in livestock numbers ⓘ economic disruption ⓘ food riots ⓘ increased grain prices ⓘ increased mortality ⓘ long-term demographic impact ⓘ malnutrition ⓘ mass starvation ⓘ population decline ⓘ social unrest ⓘ weakening of feudal structures ⓘ |
| location |
British Isles
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England ⓘ Europe ⓘ France ⓘ Holy Roman Empire ⓘ Ireland ⓘ Low Countries ⓘ Northern Europe ⓘ Poland ⓘ Scandinavia ⓘ Western Europe ⓘ |
| partOf | crisis of the Late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| pointInTime | 14th century ⓘ |
| significantFor |
shaping later medieval crises
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weakening medieval European society ⓘ |
| startTime | 1315 ⓘ |
| temporalRelation | preceded the Black Death ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Great Famine of 1315–1317 Description of subject: The Great Famine of 1315–1317 was a devastating pan-European food crisis marked by widespread crop failures, mass starvation, and social upheaval that profoundly weakened medieval European society.
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