Typhoon Haiyan
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Typhoon Haiyan was one of the strongest and deadliest tropical cyclones ever recorded, devastating large parts of the Philippines and surrounding regions in November 2013.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Typhoon Haiyan canonical | 3 |
| Typhoon Yolanda | 3 |
| Super Typhoon Haiyan | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2375843 — 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: Typhoon Haiyan Context triple: [Eastern Visayas, hitBy, Typhoon Haiyan]
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A.
Cyclone Nargis
Cyclone Nargis was a devastating 2008 tropical cyclone that struck Myanmar, causing catastrophic flooding and one of the deadliest natural disasters in the country's history.
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B.
Shimotsumaki
Shimotsumaki is the third and final volume of the ancient Japanese chronicle Kojiki, focusing largely on historical-era emperors and genealogies rather than mythological narratives.
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C.
Typhoon FGR4
The Typhoon FGR4 is a multirole variant of the Eurofighter Typhoon used by the Royal Air Force for air-to-air and air-to-ground combat operations.
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D.
Cyclone
Cyclone is a statically typed, safe dialect of C designed to prevent common programming errors such as buffer overflows and memory leaks while retaining low-level control.
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E.
Cyclone
Cyclone is a family of low-cost, low-power FPGA devices developed by Altera (now part of Intel) for a wide range of embedded and programmable logic applications.
- 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: Typhoon Haiyan Target entity description: Typhoon Haiyan was one of the strongest and deadliest tropical cyclones ever recorded, devastating large parts of the Philippines and surrounding regions in November 2013.
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A.
Cyclone Nargis
Cyclone Nargis was a devastating 2008 tropical cyclone that struck Myanmar, causing catastrophic flooding and one of the deadliest natural disasters in the country's history.
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B.
Shimotsumaki
Shimotsumaki is the third and final volume of the ancient Japanese chronicle Kojiki, focusing largely on historical-era emperors and genealogies rather than mythological narratives.
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C.
Typhoon FGR4
The Typhoon FGR4 is a multirole variant of the Eurofighter Typhoon used by the Royal Air Force for air-to-air and air-to-ground combat operations.
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D.
Cyclone
Cyclone is a statically typed, safe dialect of C designed to prevent common programming errors such as buffer overflows and memory leaks while retaining low-level control.
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E.
Cyclone
Cyclone is a family of low-cost, low-power FPGA devices developed by Altera (now part of Intel) for a wide range of embedded and programmable logic applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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: Typhoon Haiyan Description of subject: Typhoon Haiyan was one of the strongest and deadliest tropical cyclones ever recorded, devastating large parts of the Philippines and surrounding regions in November 2013.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Typhoon Yolanda
this entity surface form:
Super Typhoon Haiyan
this entity surface form:
Typhoon Yolanda