2016 Kaikōura earthquake
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The 2016 Kaikōura earthquake was a powerful magnitude 7.8 quake that struck New Zealand’s South Island, causing widespread ground deformation, landslides, and infrastructure damage across the Kaikōura region and beyond.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 2016 Kaikōura earthquake canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5569752 — 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: 2016 Kaikōura earthquake Context triple: [Kaikōura, wasAffectedBy, 2016 Kaikōura earthquake]
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A.
1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake
The 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake was a devastating 7.8-magnitude quake that struck New Zealand’s North Island, killing over 250 people and reshaping the cities of Napier and Hastings through widespread destruction and subsequent Art Deco–style reconstruction.
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B.
2010 Canterbury earthquake
The 2010 Canterbury earthquake was a powerful 7.1-magnitude quake that struck New Zealand’s South Island near Christchurch, causing widespread damage but no direct fatalities.
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C.
2011 Christchurch earthquake sequence
The 2011 Christchurch earthquake sequence was a series of powerful and destructive earthquakes in the Canterbury region of New Zealand, centered on and around Christchurch, causing widespread damage, loss of life, and long-term impacts on infrastructure and communities.
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D.
1960 Valdivia earthquake
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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E.
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.
- 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: 2016 Kaikōura earthquake Target entity description: The 2016 Kaikōura earthquake was a powerful magnitude 7.8 quake that struck New Zealand’s South Island, causing widespread ground deformation, landslides, and infrastructure damage across the Kaikōura region and beyond.
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A.
1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake
The 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake was a devastating 7.8-magnitude quake that struck New Zealand’s North Island, killing over 250 people and reshaping the cities of Napier and Hastings through widespread destruction and subsequent Art Deco–style reconstruction.
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B.
2010 Canterbury earthquake
The 2010 Canterbury earthquake was a powerful 7.1-magnitude quake that struck New Zealand’s South Island near Christchurch, causing widespread damage but no direct fatalities.
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C.
2011 Christchurch earthquake sequence
The 2011 Christchurch earthquake sequence was a series of powerful and destructive earthquakes in the Canterbury region of New Zealand, centered on and around Christchurch, causing widespread damage, loss of life, and long-term impacts on infrastructure and communities.
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D.
1960 Valdivia earthquake
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | earthquake ⓘ |
| affectedCity |
Kaikōura
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wellington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| affectedRegion |
Canterbury
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marlborough NERFINISHED ⓘ Wellington Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aftershocks | thousands ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
2016 New Zealand earthquake
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kaikoura earthquake 2016 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| casualtiesDeaths | 2 ⓘ |
| casualtiesInjured | dozens ⓘ |
| causedGroundDeformation | true ⓘ |
| causedLandslides | true ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| countryResponseAgency |
GNS Science
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Zealand Civil Defence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| damagedInfrastructure |
Main North Line railway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State Highway 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ buildings in Wellington CBD ⓘ |
| date | 2016-11-14 ⓘ |
| depth | 15 km ⓘ |
| economicLoss | billions of New Zealand dollars ⓘ |
| epicenterNear | Waiau, North Canterbury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| epicenterRegion | North Canterbury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentResponse | New Zealand national state of emergency not declared ⓘ |
| intensityScale | Modified Mercalli intensity scale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| localDate | 2016-11-14 ⓘ |
| localTime | 00:02 ⓘ |
| location |
Kaikōura region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marlborough region NERFINISHED ⓘ North Canterbury NERFINISHED ⓘ South Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| magnitude | 7.8 ⓘ |
| magnitudeScale | moment magnitude scale ⓘ |
| maximumHorizontalDisplacement | over 10 m ⓘ |
| maximumIntensity | IX ⓘ |
| maximumVerticalDisplacement | up to 8 m ⓘ |
| militaryInvolvement | Royal New Zealand Navy evacuation operations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAftershockMagnitude | 6.0+ ⓘ |
| numberOfLandslides | thousands ⓘ |
| partOfTectonicSetting | boundary between Pacific Plate and Australian Plate ⓘ |
| promptedEvacuations |
Kaikōura
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
coastal communities on east coast of South Island ⓘ |
| rupturedFaults |
Hundalee Fault
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jordan Thrust NERFINISHED ⓘ Kekerengu Fault NERFINISHED ⓘ Papatea Fault NERFINISHED ⓘ multiple faults ⓘ |
| ruptureLength | approximately 180 km ⓘ |
| scientificSignificance |
challenged assumptions about fault segmentation
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complex multi-fault rupture ⓘ |
| timeZone | NZDT ⓘ |
| triggeredTsunami | true ⓘ |
| tsunamiAffectedCoast | east coast of South Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tsunamiHeightMax | approximately 7 m ⓘ |
| utcTime | 2016-11-13T11:02:56Z ⓘ |
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: 2016 Kaikōura earthquake Description of subject: The 2016 Kaikōura earthquake was a powerful magnitude 7.8 quake that struck New Zealand’s South Island, causing widespread ground deformation, landslides, and infrastructure damage across the Kaikōura region and beyond.
Referenced by (3)
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