2003 Dead River flood
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The 2003 Dead River flood was a major dam-failure-induced flooding event in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that caused significant damage in and around the city of Marquette.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 2003 Dead River flood canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1913278 — 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: 2003 Dead River flood Context triple: [Dead River (Michigan), hasFloodEvent, 2003 Dead River flood]
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A.
1997 Red River flood
The 1997 Red River flood was a catastrophic spring flood along the Red River of the North that devastated communities in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Manitoba, causing widespread evacuations and extensive property damage.
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B.
Great Flood of 1879
The Great Flood of 1879 was a catastrophic inundation of the city of Szeged in Hungary that destroyed most of the town and prompted a major reconstruction.
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C.
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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D.
Flood
Flood is a renowned British record producer and audio engineer known for his work with influential rock and alternative artists such as U2, Depeche Mode, and Nine Inch Nails.
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E.
Oder flood of 1997
The Oder flood of 1997 was a catastrophic Central European flood that devastated large areas of Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic, causing widespread damage and loss of life along the Oder River basin.
- 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: 2003 Dead River flood Target entity description: The 2003 Dead River flood was a major dam-failure-induced flooding event in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that caused significant damage in and around the city of Marquette.
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A.
1997 Red River flood
The 1997 Red River flood was a catastrophic spring flood along the Red River of the North that devastated communities in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Manitoba, causing widespread evacuations and extensive property damage.
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B.
Great Flood of 1879
The Great Flood of 1879 was a catastrophic inundation of the city of Szeged in Hungary that destroyed most of the town and prompted a major reconstruction.
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C.
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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D.
Flood
Flood is a renowned British record producer and audio engineer known for his work with influential rock and alternative artists such as U2, Depeche Mode, and Nine Inch Nails.
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E.
Oder flood of 1997
The Oder flood of 1997 was a catastrophic Central European flood that devastated large areas of Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic, causing widespread damage and loss of life along the Oder River basin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dam failure
ⓘ
flood ⓘ natural disaster ⓘ |
| affects |
Marquette, Michigan
ⓘ
surface form:
city of Marquette
communities along the Dead River ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| followedBy |
dam safety reviews in the region
ⓘ
reconstruction of damaged infrastructure ⓘ |
| hasCause |
Silver Lake Dam failure
ⓘ
dam failure ⓘ |
| hasEffect |
environmental impact
ⓘ
infrastructure damage ⓘ significant property damage ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | early 21st century ⓘ |
| location |
Dead River
ⓘ
Marquette County, Michigan ⓘ Marquette, Michigan ⓘ Upper Peninsula of Michigan ⓘ |
| naturalOrHumanCause | technological disaster ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of Marquette, Michigan
ⓘ
history of Michigan ⓘ |
| river | Dead River ⓘ |
| significance |
major flooding event in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
ⓘ
notable dam-failure-induced flood in the United States ⓘ |
| startTime | 2003 ⓘ |
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: 2003 Dead River flood Description of subject: The 2003 Dead River flood was a major dam-failure-induced flooding event in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that caused significant damage in and around the city of Marquette.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.