Second Grinnell Expedition
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The Second Grinnell Expedition was an 1853–1855 American Arctic voyage led by Elisha Kent Kane that searched for the lost Franklin expedition and made important geographic and scientific discoveries in the high Arctic.
All labels observed (1)
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| Second Grinnell Expedition canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16127563 — 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: Second Grinnell Expedition Context triple: [Elisha Kent Kane, knownFor, Second Grinnell Expedition]
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A.
Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition
The Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition was an 1870 exploratory survey of the Yellowstone region whose reports helped lead to the creation of Yellowstone National Park.
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B.
Second Fram Expedition
The Second Fram Expedition was a Norwegian Arctic exploration voyage (1898–1902) led by Otto Sverdrup that charted large areas of the Canadian High Arctic and significantly advanced polar geography.
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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.
Custer Expedition of 1874
The Custer Expedition of 1874 was a U.S. Army reconnaissance mission led by Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer into the Black Hills that publicized the region’s gold deposits and helped trigger the Black Hills Gold Rush.
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E.
Powder River Expedition
The Powder River Expedition was an 1865 U.S. Army campaign against Plains tribes in present-day Wyoming and Montana, aimed at securing overland travel routes and asserting federal control in the northern Great Plains.
- 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: Second Grinnell Expedition Target entity description: The Second Grinnell Expedition was an 1853–1855 American Arctic voyage led by Elisha Kent Kane that searched for the lost Franklin expedition and made important geographic and scientific discoveries in the high Arctic.
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A.
Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition
The Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition was an 1870 exploratory survey of the Yellowstone region whose reports helped lead to the creation of Yellowstone National Park.
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B.
Second Fram Expedition
The Second Fram Expedition was a Norwegian Arctic exploration voyage (1898–1902) led by Otto Sverdrup that charted large areas of the Canadian High Arctic and significantly advanced polar geography.
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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.
Custer Expedition of 1874
The Custer Expedition of 1874 was a U.S. Army reconnaissance mission led by Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer into the Black Hills that publicized the region’s gold deposits and helped trigger the Black Hills Gold Rush.
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E.
Powder River Expedition
The Powder River Expedition was an 1865 U.S. Army campaign against Plains tribes in present-day Wyoming and Montana, aimed at securing overland travel routes and asserting federal control in the northern Great Plains.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.