First Grinnell Expedition
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The First Grinnell Expedition was an 1850–1851 American Arctic voyage launched to search for the lost Franklin expedition and explore the high northern latitudes.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16127575 — 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: First Grinnell Expedition Context triple: [Elisha Kent Kane, participantIn, First Grinnell Expedition]
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Second Grinnell Expedition
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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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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C.
Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899
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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D.
Ross expedition
The Ross expedition was a 19th-century British Antarctic exploration led by James Clark Ross that conducted pioneering scientific research and charted large portions of the Antarctic coastline.
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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.
- 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: First Grinnell Expedition Target entity description: The First Grinnell Expedition was an 1850–1851 American Arctic voyage launched to search for the lost Franklin expedition and explore the high northern latitudes.
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A.
Second Grinnell Expedition
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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B.
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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C.
Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899
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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D.
Ross expedition
The Ross expedition was a 19th-century British Antarctic exploration led by James Clark Ross that conducted pioneering scientific research and charted large portions of the Antarctic coastline.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
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