2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak
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The 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak was the largest and deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, primarily affecting Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone and prompting a major international public health emergency response.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T127114 — 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: 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak Context triple: [International Health Regulations (2005), usedDuring, 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak]
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Roll Back Malaria
Roll Back Malaria is a global partnership initiative aimed at coordinating international efforts to control and eventually eliminate malaria, particularly in the most affected regions.
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2011 Libyan Civil War
The 2011 Libyan Civil War was an armed conflict that led to the overthrow and death of longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi amid a broader wave of Arab Spring uprisings, involving both domestic rebel forces and international military intervention.
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C.
Operation Serval
Operation Serval was a 2013 French-led military intervention in Mali aimed at halting Islamist militant advances and stabilizing the country.
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Benghazi
Benghazi is a major port city in eastern Libya that has historically served as a key political, economic, and cultural center of the country.
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Second Libyan Civil War
The Second Libyan Civil War was a multi-sided conflict that erupted after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, pitting rival governments, militias, and foreign-backed factions against each other and plunging Libya into prolonged instability and violence.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak Target entity description: The 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak was the largest and deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, primarily affecting Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone and prompting a major international public health emergency response.
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A.
Roll Back Malaria
Roll Back Malaria is a global partnership initiative aimed at coordinating international efforts to control and eventually eliminate malaria, particularly in the most affected regions.
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B.
2011 Libyan Civil War
The 2011 Libyan Civil War was an armed conflict that led to the overthrow and death of longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi amid a broader wave of Arab Spring uprisings, involving both domestic rebel forces and international military intervention.
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C.
Operation Serval
Operation Serval was a 2013 French-led military intervention in Mali aimed at halting Islamist militant advances and stabilizing the country.
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D.
Benghazi
Benghazi is a major port city in eastern Libya that has historically served as a key political, economic, and cultural center of the country.
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E.
Second Libyan Civil War
The Second Libyan Civil War was a multi-sided conflict that erupted after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, pitting rival governments, militias, and foreign-backed factions against each other and plunging Libya into prolonged instability and violence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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: 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak Description of subject: The 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak was the largest and deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, primarily affecting Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone and prompting a major international public health emergency response.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
International Health Regulations (2005)
Public Health Emergency of International Concern
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hasBeenDeclaredFor
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2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak
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subject surface form:
International Health Regulations
this entity surface form:
2014–2016 Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa
this entity surface form:
West African Ebola epidemic
2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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largerOnlyThan
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2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak
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this entity surface form:
2014–2016 West Africa Ebola epidemic
United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response
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hasCause
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2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak
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this entity surface form:
Ebola virus disease epidemic in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
this entity surface form:
2014–2016 West African Ebola outbreak