2013 Yukon River flood
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The 2013 Yukon River flood was a major spring breakup flood that caused extensive damage and forced evacuations in river communities along Alaska’s Yukon River, particularly devastating the village of Galena.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 2013 Yukon River flood canonical | 1 |
| Yukon River flood events | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7706804 — 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: 2013 Yukon River flood Context triple: [Galena, Alaska, hasSignificantEvent, 2013 Yukon River flood]
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A.
1967 Fairbanks flood
The 1967 Fairbanks flood was a devastating inundation of Fairbanks, Alaska, that caused widespread damage and led to major changes in the region’s flood control and urban planning.
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B.
Missoula floods
The Missoula floods were a series of cataclysmic Ice Age glacial outburst floods that repeatedly swept across the Pacific Northwest, dramatically reshaping the landscape of what is now Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.
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C.
2003 Dead River flood
The 2003 Dead River flood was a major dam-failure-induced flooding event in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that caused significant damage in and around the city of Marquette.
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D.
1997 Red River flood
The 1997 Red River flood was a catastrophic spring flood along the Red River of the North that devastated communities in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Manitoba, causing widespread evacuations and extensive property damage.
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E.
2009 Red River flood
The 2009 Red River flood was a major spring flood along the Red River of the North that caused extensive flooding and emergency responses in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Manitoba.
- 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: 2013 Yukon River flood Target entity description: The 2013 Yukon River flood was a major spring breakup flood that caused extensive damage and forced evacuations in river communities along Alaska’s Yukon River, particularly devastating the village of Galena.
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A.
1967 Fairbanks flood
The 1967 Fairbanks flood was a devastating inundation of Fairbanks, Alaska, that caused widespread damage and led to major changes in the region’s flood control and urban planning.
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B.
Missoula floods
The Missoula floods were a series of cataclysmic Ice Age glacial outburst floods that repeatedly swept across the Pacific Northwest, dramatically reshaping the landscape of what is now Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.
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C.
2003 Dead River flood
The 2003 Dead River flood was a major dam-failure-induced flooding event in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that caused significant damage in and around the city of Marquette.
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D.
1997 Red River flood
The 1997 Red River flood was a catastrophic spring flood along the Red River of the North that devastated communities in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Manitoba, causing widespread evacuations and extensive property damage.
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E.
2009 Red River flood
The 2009 Red River flood was a major spring flood along the Red River of the North that caused extensive flooding and emergency responses in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Manitoba.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flood
ⓘ
spring breakup flood ⓘ |
| affected | Alaska river communities along the Yukon River ⓘ |
| cause |
ice jam formation
ⓘ
spring ice breakup on the Yukon River ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| describedBySource |
government disaster assessments
ⓘ
news reports ⓘ |
| emergencyResponseBy |
Federal Emergency Management Agency
ⓘ
State of Alaska ⓘ
linked to:
Alaska
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ⓘ |
| endTime | June 2013 ⓘ |
| followedBy | rebuilding efforts in Galena ⓘ |
| hasEffect |
contamination of local infrastructure
ⓘ
damage to homes in Galena ⓘ displacement of residents ⓘ extensive property damage ⓘ forced evacuations ⓘ infrastructure damage ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Alaska Interior
ⓘ
linked to:
Interior Alaska
Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska ⓘ
linked to:
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area
|
| location |
Alaska
ⓘ
Yukon River ⓘ |
| mainlyAffected | Galena, Alaska ⓘ |
| naturalHazardType | river flood ⓘ |
| partOf |
Yukon River flood events
ⓘ
linked to:
2013 Yukon River flood
|
| pointInTime | 2013 ⓘ |
| river | Yukon River ⓘ |
| significantFor | disaster preparedness in rural Alaska ⓘ |
| startTime | May 2013 ⓘ |
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: 2013 Yukon River flood Description of subject: The 2013 Yukon River flood was a major spring breakup flood that caused extensive damage and forced evacuations in river communities along Alaska’s Yukon River, particularly devastating the village of Galena.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Galena
linked to: 2013 Yukon River flood