crisis

C3144

concept

A crisis is a critical turning point or period of intense difficulty and instability that demands urgent decision-making and action to prevent severe negative consequences.

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All labels observed (28)

Label	Occurrences
hostage crisis	16
Ebola virus disease outbreak	6
energy crisis	4
public health crisis	4
crisis canonical	3
pre-World War I crisis	3
security crisis	3
crisis event	2
cross-strait crisis	2
influenza pandemic	2
pre–World War I crisis	2
European political crisis	1
automotive industry crisis	1
budgetary crisis	1
civil emergency	1
corporate crisis	1
crisis of the papacy	1
electricity crisis	1
eschatological crisis	1
existential crisis	1
food crisis	1
global health crisis	1
industrial crisis	1
marital crisis	1
oil crisis	1
salinity crisis	1
secession crisis	1
sectional crisis	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: crisis

Generated description

A crisis is a critical turning point or period of intense difficulty and instability that demands urgent decision-making and action to prevent severe negative consequences.

Instances (61)

Instance	Via concept surface
Planemeld crisis	—
Missouri secession crisis	secession crisis
2017 Équateur Province Ebola outbreak	Ebola virus disease outbreak
Iran hostage crisis	hostage crisis
2015 Ellen Pao resignation controversy	corporate crisis
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis	cross-strait crisis
2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic	influenza pandemic
2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak	Ebola virus disease outbreak
1973 oil crisis	oil crisis
Arab oil embargo	energy crisis
U.S. auto industry crisis of 2008–2010	automotive industry crisis
Bosnian Crisis	pre-World War I crisis
2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	Ebola virus disease outbreak
Prince's Gate, South Kensington, London surface form: Iranian Embassy siege	hostage crisis
Messinian Salinity Crisis (late Miocene) surface form: Messinian Salinity Crisis	salinity crisis
Three-Day Week crisis	industrial crisis
California electricity crisis	energy crisis
Horn of Africa conflicts	security crisis
Somalian famine of 2011	food crisis
2015 Bardo National Museum attack	hostage crisis
COVID-19 pandemic in New South Wales	public health crisis
Budennovsk hospital hostage crisis	hostage crisis
Kizlyar–Pervomayskoye hostage crisis	hostage crisis
Moscow theater hostage crisis	hostage crisis
1995 Kikwit Ebola outbreak	Ebola virus disease outbreak
Beslan school siege	hostage crisis
2013 United States federal government shutdown	budgetary crisis
2007 Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo	Ebola virus disease outbreak
Panther Affair	pre-World War I crisis
noögenic neurosis	existential crisis
Great Disappointment	eschatological crisis
Dawson's Field hijackings	hostage crisis
1968 El Al Flight 426 hijacking	hostage crisis
2018 Équateur Province Ebola outbreak	Ebola virus disease outbreak
Iranian Embassy siege	hostage crisis
Munich massacre	hostage crisis
Xá Lợi Pagoda raids	crisis event
Ma'alot massacre	hostage crisis
2013 Westgate shopping mall attack	hostage crisis
Flint water crisis	public health crisis
Annexation Crisis	pre-World War I crisis
Quemoy Crisis	cross-strait crisis
COVID-19 pandemic	global health crisis
Crisis of the Third Century	—
Evacuation during Dark Sea flood	crisis event
the Great Stink of 1858 surface form: Great Stink of 1858	public health crisis
Western Schism	crisis of the papacy
Eurozone crisis	European political crisis
2019 Toddbrook Reservoir emergency	civil emergency
Hijacking of Air France Flight 139	hostage crisis