1963 Skopje earthquake
E176346
The 1963 Skopje earthquake was a devastating seismic event that struck the capital of present-day North Macedonia, causing widespread destruction and loss of life and prompting a major international reconstruction effort.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 1963 Skopje earthquake canonical | 5 |
| Skopje earthquake of 1963 | 1 |
| Скопски земјотрес 1963 година | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1547085 — 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: 1963 Skopje earthquake Context triple: [Skopje, historicalEvent, 1963 Skopje earthquake]
-
A.
1755 Lisbon earthquake
The 1755 Lisbon earthquake was a devastating seismic event that struck Portugal’s capital on All Saints’ Day, triggering massive fires and a tsunami, and profoundly influencing European philosophy, science, and urban planning.
-
B.
1986 San Salvador earthquake
The 1986 San Salvador earthquake was a devastating magnitude 5.7 tremor that struck El Salvador’s capital region on October 10, 1986, causing widespread destruction and significant loss of life.
-
C.
Račak massacre
The Račak massacre was a 1999 killing of ethnic Albanian civilians in the village of Račak in Kosovo by Serbian security forces, widely seen as a pivotal atrocity that galvanized international support for NATO intervention.
-
D.
Great Kanto earthquake
The Great Kanto earthquake was a devastating 1923 seismic disaster that struck the Tokyo-Yokohama region of Japan, causing massive destruction and loss of life.
-
E.
Mladenovac
Mladenovac is a suburban municipality and town located in the southern part of the City of Belgrade, Serbia.
- 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: 1963 Skopje earthquake Target entity description: The 1963 Skopje earthquake was a devastating seismic event that struck the capital of present-day North Macedonia, causing widespread destruction and loss of life and prompting a major international reconstruction effort.
-
A.
1755 Lisbon earthquake
The 1755 Lisbon earthquake was a devastating seismic event that struck Portugal’s capital on All Saints’ Day, triggering massive fires and a tsunami, and profoundly influencing European philosophy, science, and urban planning.
-
B.
1986 San Salvador earthquake
The 1986 San Salvador earthquake was a devastating magnitude 5.7 tremor that struck El Salvador’s capital region on October 10, 1986, causing widespread destruction and significant loss of life.
-
C.
Račak massacre
The Račak massacre was a 1999 killing of ethnic Albanian civilians in the village of Račak in Kosovo by Serbian security forces, widely seen as a pivotal atrocity that galvanized international support for NATO intervention.
-
D.
Great Kanto earthquake
The Great Kanto earthquake was a devastating 1923 seismic disaster that struck the Tokyo-Yokohama region of Japan, causing massive destruction and loss of life.
-
E.
Mladenovac
Mladenovac is a suburban municipality and town located in the southern part of the City of Belgrade, Serbia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
earthquake
ⓘ
historical event ⓘ natural disaster ⓘ |
| affectedArea |
Skopje
ⓘ
Skopje Region ⓘ
surface form:
Skopje region
|
| aftershocks | numerous aftershocks in the days following 1963-07-26 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
1963 Skopje earthquake
ⓘ
surface form:
Skopje earthquake of 1963
|
| architecturalPlanBy | Kenzo Tange ⓘ |
| buildingsDestroyedOrDamaged | around 80 percent of the city’s buildings ⓘ |
| casualties |
approximately 1,070 deaths
ⓘ
over 1,000 deaths ⓘ |
| cause | tectonic activity along local fault systems ⓘ |
| commemoratedOn | July 26 each year in Skopje ⓘ |
| country |
Yugoslavia
ⓘ
surface form:
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
|
| countryAtTime |
North Macedonia
ⓘ
surface form:
Socialist Republic of Macedonia
|
| date | 1963-07-26 ⓘ |
| depth | approximately 6 km ⓘ |
| displacedPeople | over 200,000 homeless ⓘ |
| epicenter | near Skopje ⓘ |
| followedBy | international reconstruction effort ⓘ |
| impact |
changes in Yugoslav building codes
ⓘ
increased focus on earthquake-resistant construction in the region ⓘ major urban redevelopment of Skopje ⓘ |
| injuries | over 3,000 injured ⓘ |
| intensity | IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale ⓘ |
| languageNameEnglish | 1963 Skopje earthquake self-link ⓘ |
| languageNameMacedonian |
1963 Skopje earthquake
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Скопски земјотрес 1963 година
|
| ledTo | modernist reconstruction of Skopje ⓘ |
| localTime | 05:17 ⓘ |
| location |
Skopje
ⓘ
present-day North Macedonia ⓘ |
| magnitude |
6.0–6.1 Mw
ⓘ
6.1 Mw ⓘ |
| notableDamage |
historic center of Skopje
ⓘ
railway station in Skopje ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of Skopje
ⓘ
seismic history of the Balkans ⓘ |
| receivedAidFrom |
Soviet Union
ⓘ
United Nations ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Yugoslav republics ⓘ many other countries ⓘ |
| reconstructionPlan | internationally designed master plan for Skopje ⓘ |
| region |
Balkans
ⓘ
surface form:
Balkan Peninsula
|
| response | United Nations-coordinated aid program ⓘ |
| time | 05:17 CET ⓘ |
| triggered | large-scale reconstruction of Skopje ⓘ |
| year | 1963 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: 1963 Skopje earthquake Description of subject: The 1963 Skopje earthquake was a devastating seismic event that struck the capital of present-day North Macedonia, causing widespread destruction and loss of life and prompting a major international reconstruction effort.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Skopje earthquake of 1963
this entity surface form:
Скопски земјотрес 1963 година