Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899
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The Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 was a two-month scientific and exploratory voyage along the Alaskan coast, funded and led by railroad magnate Edward Henry Harriman and staffed by prominent scientists, artists, and naturalists.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14110678 — 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: Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 Context triple: [Edward Henry Harriman, notableEvent, Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899]
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1897 Mount Saint Elias expedition
The 1897 Mount Saint Elias expedition was an Italian-led mountaineering venture that achieved the first successful ascent of Mount Saint Elias on the Alaska–Yukon border.
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1913 Denali expedition
The 1913 Denali expedition was the pioneering mountaineering journey that achieved the first successful ascent of North America’s highest peak, Denali, in Alaska.
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McClure expedition
The McClure expedition was a mid-19th-century British Arctic voyage led by Robert McClure that is credited with the first traversal of the Northwest Passage, albeit partly by sledge over ice.
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Jeannette Arctic expedition
The Jeannette Arctic expedition was a late 19th-century U.S. Navy voyage that ended in disaster when its ship became trapped and crushed by ice while attempting to reach the North Pole via the Bering Strait.
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Fram expedition 1893–1896
The Fram expedition of 1893–1896 was Fridtjof Nansen’s pioneering Arctic voyage that attempted to reach the North Pole by intentionally freezing the ship Fram into the polar ice and drifting with it across the Arctic Ocean.
- 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: Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 Target entity description: The Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 was a two-month scientific and exploratory voyage along the Alaskan coast, funded and led by railroad magnate Edward Henry Harriman and staffed by prominent scientists, artists, and naturalists.
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A.
1897 Mount Saint Elias expedition
The 1897 Mount Saint Elias expedition was an Italian-led mountaineering venture that achieved the first successful ascent of Mount Saint Elias on the Alaska–Yukon border.
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B.
1913 Denali expedition
The 1913 Denali expedition was the pioneering mountaineering journey that achieved the first successful ascent of North America’s highest peak, Denali, in Alaska.
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C.
McClure expedition
The McClure expedition was a mid-19th-century British Arctic voyage led by Robert McClure that is credited with the first traversal of the Northwest Passage, albeit partly by sledge over ice.
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D.
Jeannette Arctic expedition
The Jeannette Arctic expedition was a late 19th-century U.S. Navy voyage that ended in disaster when its ship became trapped and crushed by ice while attempting to reach the North Pole via the Bering Strait.
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E.
Fram expedition 1893–1896
The Fram expedition of 1893–1896 was Fridtjof Nansen’s pioneering Arctic voyage that attempted to reach the North Pole by intentionally freezing the ship Fram into the polar ice and drifting with it across the Arctic Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
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