Black Death
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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.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Black Death canonical | 17 |
| Black Death in England | 4 |
| Black Death in France | 1 |
| Great Mortality | 1 |
| Second plague pandemic | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T135051 — 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.
Target entity: Black Death Context triple: [Middle Ages, includesEvent, Black Death]
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Great Famine
The Great Famine was a catastrophic mid-19th-century potato blight in Ireland that caused mass starvation, disease, and a huge wave of emigration, particularly to North America.
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Porajmos
Porajmos is the term used to describe the genocide and systematic persecution of Roma and Sinti people by Nazi Germany and its allies during World War II.
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C.
Holodomor
The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that caused the deaths of millions of Ukrainians and is widely regarded as a genocide.
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Salem witch trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of infamous 1692–1693 prosecutions in colonial New England where mass hysteria and superstition led to the execution and imprisonment of people accused of witchcraft.
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Great Purge
The Great Purge was a brutal campaign of political repression, mass arrests, and executions in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s that targeted perceived enemies of the state, including Communist Party members, military leaders, and ordinary citizens.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Black Death Target entity description: 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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A.
Great Famine
The Great Famine was a catastrophic mid-19th-century potato blight in Ireland that caused mass starvation, disease, and a huge wave of emigration, particularly to North America.
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B.
Porajmos
Porajmos is the term used to describe the genocide and systematic persecution of Roma and Sinti people by Nazi Germany and its allies during World War II.
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C.
Holodomor
The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that caused the deaths of millions of Ukrainians and is widely regarded as a genocide.
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D.
Salem witch trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of infamous 1692–1693 prosecutions in colonial New England where mass hysteria and superstition led to the execution and imprisonment of people accused of witchcraft.
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E.
Great Purge
The Great Purge was a brutal campaign of political repression, mass arrests, and executions in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s that targeted perceived enemies of the state, including Communist Party members, military leaders, and ordinary citizens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bubonic plague pandemic
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epidemic ⓘ historical event ⓘ pandemic ⓘ |
| affects | human population ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Black Death
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Mortality
Great Plague of London ⓘ
surface form:
Great Plague
|
| caused |
changes in land use
ⓘ
decline of serfdom in Western Europe ⓘ economic contraction ⓘ labor shortages in Europe ⓘ persecution of Jewish communities ⓘ psychological trauma ⓘ religious movements and flagellant processions ⓘ social unrest ⓘ urban depopulation ⓘ wage increases for peasants and workers ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
contemporary chronicles
ⓘ
parish registers ⓘ tax records ⓘ |
| endTime | 1353 ⓘ |
| estimatedDeaths |
200000000
ⓘ
75000000 ⓘ |
| hasCause | Yersinia pestis ⓘ |
| hasDiseaseType |
bubonic plague
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pneumonic plague ⓘ septicemic plague ⓘ |
| hasLocation |
Asia
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Europe ⓘ Mediterranean Basin ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North Africa ⓘ |
| hasSymptom |
blackened skin lesions
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chills ⓘ fever ⓘ painful swollen lymph nodes ⓘ vomiting ⓘ |
| influenced |
art in late Middle Ages
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literature in late Middle Ages ⓘ religious thought in Europe ⓘ |
| majorOutbreakIn |
Byzantine Empire
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England ⓘ France ⓘ Germany ⓘ Italy ⓘ Mamluk Sultanate ⓘ Scandinavia ⓘ Spain ⓘ |
| mortalityRate | 30-60 percent of European population ⓘ |
| namedAfter | blackened appearance of skin lesions ⓘ |
| originatesFrom | Central Asia ⓘ |
| peakIn |
1347
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1348 ⓘ 1349 ⓘ |
| precedes | subsequent plague epidemics in Europe ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Justinianic Plague
ⓘ
Third Plague Pandemic ⓘ |
| spreadAlong |
Mediterranean trade routes
ⓘ
Silk Road routes ⓘ
surface form:
Silk Road
|
| startTime | 1346 ⓘ |
| transmittedBy |
black rats
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fleas ⓘ human-to-human respiratory droplets ⓘ |
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Subject: Black Death Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (24)
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