disaster
C223
concept
A disaster is a sudden, disruptive event—natural or human-made—that causes significant harm to people, property, or the environment and overwhelms normal coping capacities.
All labels observed (83)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| natural disaster | 109 |
| earthquake | 73 |
| flood | 37 |
| disaster canonical | 34 |
| tropical cyclone | 26 |
| famine | 20 |
| industrial disaster | 19 |
| environmental disaster | 16 |
| wildfire | 14 |
| epidemic | 12 |
| humanitarian crisis | 11 |
| pandemic | 10 |
| man-made disaster | 7 |
| mining disaster | 7 |
| Category 5 Atlantic hurricane | 5 |
| humanitarian disaster | 5 |
| stadium disaster | 5 |
| tsunami | 5 |
| disaster in the United Kingdom | 4 |
| disaster in the United States | 4 |
| bubonic plague outbreak | 3 |
| cataclysm | 3 |
| catastrophic event | 3 |
| flood disaster | 3 |
| bubonic plague pandemic | 2 |
| disaster in Canada | 2 |
| football-related disaster | 2 |
| historical disaster | 2 |
| human disaster | 2 |
| mass casualty incident | 2 |
| mass fatality incident | 2 |
| military disaster | 2 |
| nuclear disaster | 2 |
| technological disaster | 2 |
| weather disaster | 2 |
| 1963 disaster | 1 |
| 2000s disaster | 1 |
| 2010 disaster | 1 |
| 2014 disaster | 1 |
| 2018 disaster | 1 |
| 2023 disaster | 1 |
| air pollution disaster | 1 |
| cataclysmic flood | 1 |
| cataclysmic flood event | 1 |
| crowd disaster | 1 |
| dam failure event | 1 |
| demographic catastrophe | 1 |
| disaster in 2009 | 1 |
| disaster in Denmark | 1 |
| disaster in England | 1 |
| disaster in Ethiopia | 1 |
| disaster in Europe | 1 |
| disaster in Japan | 1 |
| disaster in New York City | 1 |
| disaster in Rome | 1 |
| disaster in Russia | 1 |
| disaster in Somalia | 1 |
| disaster in Virginia Colony | 1 |
| disaster in the Netherlands | 1 |
| disaster site | 1 |
| drought | 1 |
| dust storm | 1 |
| dust storm disaster | 1 |
| ecological catastrophe | 1 |
| famine-related disaster | 1 |
| fireworks disaster | 1 |
| gas leak disaster | 1 |
| health disaster | 1 |
| human-caused disaster | 1 |
| human-induced environmental disaster | 1 |
| landslide disaster | 1 |
| man-made famine | 1 |
| mass extinction | 1 |
| monsoon disaster | 1 |
| natural disaster in the United States | 1 |
| public transportation disaster | 1 |
| school disaster | 1 |
| series of wildfires | 1 |
| storm surge | 1 |
| storm surge event | 1 |
| superhero-related disaster | 1 |
| transport disaster in the United States | 1 |
| weather-related disaster | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: disaster
Generated description
A disaster is a sudden, disruptive event—natural or human-made—that causes significant harm to people, property, or the environment and overwhelms normal coping capacities.
Instances (360)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Hurricane Jeanne (2004) | tropical cyclone |
| 2018 Ellicott City flood | natural disaster |
| Great Seattle Fire of 1889 | — |
| Great Fire of 1922 | wildfire |
| Texas City disaster of 1947 | industrial disaster |
| Three Years of Great Famine | famine |
| Three Years of Natural Disasters | famine |
| Three Years of Difficulty | famine |
| Hurricane Isaac | tropical cyclone |
| Missoula floods | cataclysmic flood event |