Over 125 years of crisis,
mapped as a causal graph.
CrisisGraph is a collaborative knowledge graph of the wars, pandemics, natural disasters, industrial failures, terrorism, and financial crashes that shaped the modern world — and the laws, agencies, and reforms that responded. Every event has its own URL, its own citations, its own place in the chain.
What CrisisGraph is — and how to read it
CrisisGraph is a Zafronix research project and a free, public tool — not a commercial product, and not an authoritative academic reference. It maps historical crises and the responses to them so you can explore how events connect; use it as a starting point for research, not as a final source.
The causal links are interpretations, not settled facts. Each “X led to Y” connection is proposed by our AI from the source material and then editorially reviewed — but cause and effect in history is debated, rarely one-directional, and often contested by historians. Treat every link as one defensible reading: follow the citations on each event and draw your own conclusions. Where the graph is uncertain, it is labelled with a confidence level rather than presented as fact.
Provenance & corrections. Events come from trusted news feeds and historical archives, are enriched by AI (dates, countries, category, summary, and proposed links), and are reviewed before ambiguous or user-submitted changes go live. Every event carries its own citations and URL, the graph is versioned, and anyone can suggest an addition or a correction at crisisgraph.com/contribute.
Six ways to read the graph
Same data, different lens. Pick the one that matches how you're thinking.
How new events reach the graph
Automatic every night, human-reviewable at every step, transparently versioned.
Embed any event on your site
Journalists, researchers, teachers — drop an iframe on your article or lesson and get a live, always-updating CrisisGraph card with citations and connected events.
Why it exists
The web has plenty of timelines and plenty of encyclopedias — but no single place that treats history as a causal graph. Wikipedia links pages; it doesn't type the edges. Timelines lay events on an axis; they don't tell you which one caused which.
CrisisGraph is that missing piece. Typed causal edges (CAUSED, INFLUENCED, RESPONDED_TO, EXPOSED, INFORMED…) with evidence text and citations. First-class per-entity URLs and structured data (schema.org/Event, Legislation, Report) so search engines and other tools can join against it. Grows nightly through Zafronix's own AI pipeline — no third-party API calls, no user data shared out. Free to explore, free to embed, free to build on.