1960 Valdivia earthquake
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The 1960 Valdivia earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded, a magnitude 9.5 megathrust event that devastated southern Chile and triggered tsunamis across the Pacific.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1960 Valdivia earthquake canonical | 3 |
| 1960 Great Chilean earthquake | 1 |
| 1960 Valdivia earthquake and tsunami | 1 |
| Great Chilean earthquake | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4153962 — 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: 1960 Valdivia earthquake Context triple: [2010 Chile earthquake, strongestInCountrySince, 1960 Valdivia earthquake]
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A.
2010 Chile earthquake
The 2010 Chile earthquake was a massive magnitude 8.8 megathrust quake off the coast of central Chile that caused widespread destruction, triggered a tsunami, and became one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded.
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B.
1746 Lima–Callao earthquake
The 1746 Lima–Callao earthquake was a devastating seismic event in colonial Peru that destroyed much of Lima and the port of Callao and triggered a deadly tsunami, profoundly reshaping the region’s urban and architectural landscape.
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C.
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.
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D.
1985 Mexico City earthquake
The 1985 Mexico City earthquake was a devastating magnitude 8.0 seismic event that struck Mexico City on September 19, 1985, causing widespread destruction and significant loss of life.
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E.
1944 Tonankai earthquake
The 1944 Tonankai earthquake was a powerful undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that generated a destructive tsunami and caused extensive damage and loss of life in the Tōkai and Kii Peninsula regions during World War II.
- 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: 1960 Valdivia earthquake Target entity description: The 1960 Valdivia earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded, a magnitude 9.5 megathrust event that devastated southern Chile and triggered tsunamis across the Pacific.
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A.
2010 Chile earthquake
The 2010 Chile earthquake was a massive magnitude 8.8 megathrust quake off the coast of central Chile that caused widespread destruction, triggered a tsunami, and became one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded.
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B.
1746 Lima–Callao earthquake
The 1746 Lima–Callao earthquake was a devastating seismic event in colonial Peru that destroyed much of Lima and the port of Callao and triggered a deadly tsunami, profoundly reshaping the region’s urban and architectural landscape.
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C.
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.
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D.
1985 Mexico City earthquake
The 1985 Mexico City earthquake was a devastating magnitude 8.0 seismic event that struck Mexico City on September 19, 1985, causing widespread destruction and significant loss of life.
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E.
1944 Tonankai earthquake
The 1944 Tonankai earthquake was a powerful undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that generated a destructive tsunami and caused extensive damage and loss of life in the Tōkai and Kii Peninsula regions during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
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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: 1960 Valdivia earthquake Description of subject: The 1960 Valdivia earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded, a magnitude 9.5 megathrust event that devastated southern Chile and triggered tsunamis across the Pacific.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
1960 Valdivia earthquake and tsunami
this entity surface form:
Great Chilean earthquake
this entity surface form:
1960 Great Chilean earthquake