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
Missouri statehood controversy	sectional crisis
Lahad Datu standoff	security crisis
Sahel conflicts	security crisis
attempts to repudiate his wife Teutberga	marital crisis
COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium	public health crisis
Maersk Alabama hijacking	hostage crisis
1973 Khartoum diplomatic hostage crisis	hostage crisis
1918 influenza pandemic	influenza pandemic
Time of Troubles	—
First Moroccan Crisis	pre–World War I crisis
Second Moroccan Crisis	pre–World War I crisis