Special Flood Hazard Area
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Special Flood Hazard Area is a high-risk flood zone designated on federal flood maps where properties are more likely to experience significant flooding and often require flood insurance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Special Flood Hazard Area canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4892899 — 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: Special Flood Hazard Area Context triple: [National Flood Insurance Program, defines, Special Flood Hazard Area]
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A.
Flood
"Flood" is a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter that explores a near-future Earth devastated by a mysterious, relentless rise in global sea levels.
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B.
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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C.
Flood
Flood is a common English surname of Germanic origin, often associated with families from regions prone to flooding or near bodies of water.
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D.
Flood
Flood is a landmark 1963 abstract expressionist painting by Helen Frankenthaler, celebrated for its lyrical color field technique and innovative use of thinned paint poured directly onto unprimed canvas.
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National Flood Insurance Program
The National Flood Insurance Program is a U.S. government initiative that provides flood insurance to property owners and encourages communities to adopt and enforce floodplain management regulations to reduce flood risk.
- 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: Special Flood Hazard Area Target entity description: Special Flood Hazard Area is a high-risk flood zone designated on federal flood maps where properties are more likely to experience significant flooding and often require flood insurance.
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A.
Flood
"Flood" is a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter that explores a near-future Earth devastated by a mysterious, relentless rise in global sea levels.
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B.
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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C.
Flood
Flood is a common English surname of Germanic origin, often associated with families from regions prone to flooding or near bodies of water.
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D.
Flood
Flood is a landmark 1963 abstract expressionist painting by Helen Frankenthaler, celebrated for its lyrical color field technique and innovative use of thinned paint poured directly onto unprimed canvas.
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E.
National Flood Insurance Program
The National Flood Insurance Program is a U.S. government initiative that provides flood insurance to property owners and encourages communities to adopt and enforce floodplain management regulations to reduce flood risk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flood hazard designation
ⓘ
regulatory floodplain term ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SFHA ⓘ |
| appearsOn |
FIRM
ⓘ
Flood Insurance Rate Map NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
areas with 26 percent chance of flooding over a 30-year mortgage
ⓘ
areas with at least 1 percent annual chance of flooding ⓘ |
| cartographicRepresentation | shaded or patterned areas on FIRMs ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
1-percent-annual-chance flood
ⓘ
100-year flood ⓘ base flood ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Non-Special Flood Hazard Area
ⓘ
moderate- to low-risk flood zones ⓘ |
| definedBy |
FEMA
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Federal Emergency Management Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| definedIn |
NFIP
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National Flood Insurance Program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicScope | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| goal |
reduce flood risk to life and property
ⓘ
support actuarially sound flood insurance rates ⓘ |
| governedBy | NFIP regulations ⓘ |
| hasConsequence |
additional building and elevation requirements
ⓘ
elevated flood insurance premiums compared to low-risk zones ⓘ mandatory purchase of flood insurance for many federally backed mortgages ⓘ |
| hasLegalBasis |
Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRiskLevel | high-risk flood zone ⓘ |
| includesZone |
Zone A
ⓘ
Zone A1-A30 ⓘ Zone A99 ⓘ Zone AE ⓘ Zone AH ⓘ Zone AO ⓘ Zone AR ⓘ Zone V ⓘ Zone V1-V30 ⓘ Zone VE ⓘ |
| mappedBy | FEMA flood mapping program ⓘ |
| monitoredBy | local floodplain administrators ⓘ |
| regulates | development in high-risk flood areas ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
BFE
ⓘ
Base Flood Elevation ⓘ |
| requires | elevation or floodproofing of new and substantially improved buildings ⓘ |
| subjectTo | floodplain development permits ⓘ |
| timeScale | based on statistical flood frequency analysis ⓘ |
| usedFor |
building code requirements
ⓘ
flood insurance rating ⓘ floodplain management ⓘ |
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: Special Flood Hazard Area Description of subject: Special Flood Hazard Area is a high-risk flood zone designated on federal flood maps where properties are more likely to experience significant flooding and often require flood insurance.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.