Starvation Creek train marooning incident
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The Starvation Creek train marooning incident was a 19th-century winter event in which a train became trapped by deep snow in the Columbia River Gorge, leaving passengers stranded for days and giving rise to the name "Starvation Creek."
All labels observed (1)
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| Starvation Creek train marooning incident canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14576338 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Starvation Creek train marooning incident Context triple: [Starvation Creek State Park, hasNameOrigin, Starvation Creek train marooning incident]
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Donner Party
The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who became infamous for being trapped by heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846–1847, leading to extreme hardship and incidents of cannibalism.
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Train Wreck
"Train Wreck" is a song by the British singer-songwriter Afterglow, known for its emotionally charged lyrics and melodic alternative rock sound.
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C.
The Massacre at Fall Creek
The Massacre at Fall Creek is a historical novel by Jessamyn West that dramatizes an 1824 Indiana crime in which white settlers were tried and executed for murdering Native Americans.
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Wagon Box Fight
The Wagon Box Fight was an 1867 engagement during Red Cloud's War in which a small group of U.S. soldiers and civilians, protected by wagon boxes, successfully repelled a much larger force of Lakota and allied warriors near Fort Phil Kearny in present-day Wyoming.
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E.
Altmark Incident
The Altmark Incident was a 1940 World War II naval confrontation in Norwegian waters, where British forces boarded the German tanker Altmark to free imprisoned Allied sailors, heightening tensions during the early "Phoney War" period.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Starvation Creek train marooning incident Target entity description: The Starvation Creek train marooning incident was a 19th-century winter event in which a train became trapped by deep snow in the Columbia River Gorge, leaving passengers stranded for days and giving rise to the name "Starvation Creek."
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A.
Donner Party
The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who became infamous for being trapped by heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846–1847, leading to extreme hardship and incidents of cannibalism.
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B.
Train Wreck
"Train Wreck" is a song by the British singer-songwriter Afterglow, known for its emotionally charged lyrics and melodic alternative rock sound.
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C.
The Massacre at Fall Creek
The Massacre at Fall Creek is a historical novel by Jessamyn West that dramatizes an 1824 Indiana crime in which white settlers were tried and executed for murdering Native Americans.
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D.
Wagon Box Fight
The Wagon Box Fight was an 1867 engagement during Red Cloud's War in which a small group of U.S. soldiers and civilians, protected by wagon boxes, successfully repelled a much larger force of Lakota and allied warriors near Fort Phil Kearny in present-day Wyoming.
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E.
Altmark Incident
The Altmark Incident was a 1940 World War II naval confrontation in Norwegian waters, where British forces boarded the German tanker Altmark to free imprisoned Allied sailors, heightening tensions during the early "Phoney War" period.
- F. None of above. chosen
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