Yacolt Burn of 1902
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The Yacolt Burn of 1902 was a massive and devastating wildfire in southwest Washington State that destroyed vast areas of forest and led to significant changes in regional land management and fire policy.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15058294 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yacolt Burn of 1902 Context triple: [Yacolt Burn State Forest, hasHistoricalEvent, Yacolt Burn of 1902]
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A.
Tillamook Burn
Tillamook Burn was a series of devastating mid-20th-century forest fires in Oregon’s Coast Range that led to major reforestation and forest management efforts.
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B.
Missoula floods
The Missoula floods were a series of cataclysmic Ice Age glacial outburst floods that repeatedly swept across the Pacific Northwest, dramatically reshaping the landscape of what is now Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.
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C.
Soberanes Fire
The Soberanes Fire was a massive and destructive 2016 wildfire in California’s Big Sur region that burned over 130,000 acres, destroyed homes, and became one of the costliest wildfires in U.S. history.
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D.
Eagle Creek Fire 2017
Eagle Creek Fire 2017 was a major human-caused wildfire in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon that burned thousands of acres, forced evacuations, and led to long-term trail and area closures.
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E.
Peshtigo Fire
The Peshtigo Fire was a catastrophic 1871 forest fire in Wisconsin that remains the deadliest wildfire in United States history.
- 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: Yacolt Burn of 1902 Target entity description: The Yacolt Burn of 1902 was a massive and devastating wildfire in southwest Washington State that destroyed vast areas of forest and led to significant changes in regional land management and fire policy.
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A.
Tillamook Burn
Tillamook Burn was a series of devastating mid-20th-century forest fires in Oregon’s Coast Range that led to major reforestation and forest management efforts.
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B.
Missoula floods
The Missoula floods were a series of cataclysmic Ice Age glacial outburst floods that repeatedly swept across the Pacific Northwest, dramatically reshaping the landscape of what is now Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.
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C.
Soberanes Fire
The Soberanes Fire was a massive and destructive 2016 wildfire in California’s Big Sur region that burned over 130,000 acres, destroyed homes, and became one of the costliest wildfires in U.S. history.
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D.
Eagle Creek Fire 2017
Eagle Creek Fire 2017 was a major human-caused wildfire in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon that burned thousands of acres, forced evacuations, and led to long-term trail and area closures.
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E.
Peshtigo Fire
The Peshtigo Fire was a catastrophic 1871 forest fire in Wisconsin that remains the deadliest wildfire in United States history.
- F. None of above. chosen
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