Cyclone Phailin
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Cyclone Phailin was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that struck eastern India in October 2013, causing widespread damage, heavy rainfall, and large-scale evacuations, particularly in the state of Odisha.
All labels observed (1)
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| Cyclone Phailin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17033180 — 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)
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Target entity: Cyclone Phailin Context triple: [Coastal Odisha, hasHazardHistory, Cyclone Phailin]
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Cyclone Wanda
Cyclone Wanda was a severe tropical cyclone that brought extreme rainfall and flooding to eastern Australia in January 1974, most notably causing the devastating Brisbane flood of that year.
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B.
1964 Rameswaram cyclone
The 1964 Rameswaram cyclone was a devastating tropical storm that struck southern India and Sri Lanka, causing massive destruction, thousands of deaths, and significant damage to infrastructure in the region.
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C.
Typhoon Haiyan
Typhoon Haiyan was one of the strongest and deadliest tropical cyclones ever recorded, devastating large parts of the Philippines and surrounding regions in November 2013.
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D.
Cyclone Nargis
Cyclone Nargis was a devastating 2008 tropical cyclone that struck Myanmar, causing catastrophic flooding and one of the deadliest natural disasters in the country's history.
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E.
Cyclone
Cyclone is a statically typed, safe dialect of C designed to prevent common programming errors such as buffer overflows and memory leaks while retaining low-level control.
- 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: Cyclone Phailin Target entity description: Cyclone Phailin was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that struck eastern India in October 2013, causing widespread damage, heavy rainfall, and large-scale evacuations, particularly in the state of Odisha.
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A.
Cyclone Wanda
Cyclone Wanda was a severe tropical cyclone that brought extreme rainfall and flooding to eastern Australia in January 1974, most notably causing the devastating Brisbane flood of that year.
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B.
1964 Rameswaram cyclone
The 1964 Rameswaram cyclone was a devastating tropical storm that struck southern India and Sri Lanka, causing massive destruction, thousands of deaths, and significant damage to infrastructure in the region.
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C.
Typhoon Haiyan
Typhoon Haiyan was one of the strongest and deadliest tropical cyclones ever recorded, devastating large parts of the Philippines and surrounding regions in November 2013.
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D.
Cyclone Nargis
Cyclone Nargis was a devastating 2008 tropical cyclone that struck Myanmar, causing catastrophic flooding and one of the deadliest natural disasters in the country's history.
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E.
Cyclone
Cyclone is the nickname of early 20th-century Canadian ice hockey legend Cyclone Taylor, renowned as one of the sport’s first great rushing defensemen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.