Great Plague of Vienna (1679)
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The Great Plague of Vienna (1679) was a devastating outbreak of bubonic plague that killed tens of thousands in Vienna and prompted major public health, religious, and urban responses in the Habsburg capital.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Great Plague of 1679 in Vienna | 1 |
| Great Plague of Vienna (1679) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14755855 — 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: Great Plague of Vienna (1679) Context triple: [Graben Pestsäule, commemorates, Great Plague of Vienna (1679)]
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Great Plague of London
The Great Plague of London was a devastating outbreak of bubonic plague in 1665–1666 that killed a large portion of the city’s population and marked the last major epidemic of its kind in England.
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Justinianic Plague
The Justinianic Plague was a devastating 6th-century pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the Byzantine Empire and Mediterranean world, often considered a precursor to the later Black Death.
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C.
Black Death
The Black Death was a devastating 14th-century pandemic of bubonic plague that killed tens of millions of people in Europe, Asia, and North Africa and profoundly reshaped medieval society.
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D.
Plague of Cyprian
The Plague of Cyprian was a devastating mid-3rd-century epidemic that severely weakened the Roman Empire’s population, military, and economy, and is known largely through the writings of Bishop Cyprian of Carthage.
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E.
Third Plague Pandemic
The Third Plague Pandemic was a global outbreak of bubonic plague that began in China in the mid-19th century, spread worldwide via trade routes, and led to the modern scientific understanding of plague and its transmission.
- 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: Great Plague of Vienna (1679) Target entity description: The Great Plague of Vienna (1679) was a devastating outbreak of bubonic plague that killed tens of thousands in Vienna and prompted major public health, religious, and urban responses in the Habsburg capital.
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A.
Great Plague of London
The Great Plague of London was a devastating outbreak of bubonic plague in 1665–1666 that killed a large portion of the city’s population and marked the last major epidemic of its kind in England.
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B.
Justinianic Plague
The Justinianic Plague was a devastating 6th-century pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the Byzantine Empire and Mediterranean world, often considered a precursor to the later Black Death.
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C.
Black Death
The Black Death was a devastating 14th-century pandemic of bubonic plague that killed tens of millions of people in Europe, Asia, and North Africa and profoundly reshaped medieval society.
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D.
Plague of Cyprian
The Plague of Cyprian was a devastating mid-3rd-century epidemic that severely weakened the Roman Empire’s population, military, and economy, and is known largely through the writings of Bishop Cyprian of Carthage.
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E.
Third Plague Pandemic
The Third Plague Pandemic was a global outbreak of bubonic plague that began in China in the mid-19th century, spread worldwide via trade routes, and led to the modern scientific understanding of plague and its transmission.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Great Plague of 1679 in Vienna