Donner Party
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The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who became infamous for being trapped by heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846–1847, leading to extreme hardship and incidents of cannibalism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Donner Party canonical | 7 |
| Donner Party encampment of 1846–1847 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1025551 — 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: Donner Party Context triple: [Donner Lake, hasHistoricalAssociation, Donner Party]
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Granma expedition
The Granma expedition was the 1956 seaborne journey in which Fidel Castro and his followers sailed from Mexico to Cuba to launch the guerrilla war that ignited the Cuban Revolution.
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B.
Mormon Trail
The Mormon Trail was a 19th-century overland route used by Latter-day Saint pioneers migrating west from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah.
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Donner
Donner is one of Santa Claus's traditional flying reindeer, often depicted as helping pull Santa’s sleigh on Christmas Eve.
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D.
Fraser Canyon Gold Rush
The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush was an 1858 gold rush in British Columbia that drew thousands of prospectors, many from California, and marked the beginning of large-scale European settlement in the region.
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E.
Franklin expedition
The Franklin expedition was a 19th-century British Arctic voyage led by Sir John Franklin that tragically disappeared while attempting to chart and navigate the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage.
- 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: Donner Party Target entity description: The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who became infamous for being trapped by heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846–1847, leading to extreme hardship and incidents of cannibalism.
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A.
Granma expedition
The Granma expedition was the 1956 seaborne journey in which Fidel Castro and his followers sailed from Mexico to Cuba to launch the guerrilla war that ignited the Cuban Revolution.
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B.
Mormon Trail
The Mormon Trail was a 19th-century overland route used by Latter-day Saint pioneers migrating west from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah.
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C.
Donner
Donner is one of Santa Claus's traditional flying reindeer, often depicted as helping pull Santa’s sleigh on Christmas Eve.
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D.
Fraser Canyon Gold Rush
The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush was an 1858 gold rush in British Columbia that drew thousands of prospectors, many from California, and marked the beginning of large-scale European settlement in the region.
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E.
Franklin expedition
The Franklin expedition was a 19th-century British Arctic voyage led by Sir John Franklin that tragically disappeared while attempting to chart and navigate the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Donner Party Description of subject: The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who became infamous for being trapped by heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846–1847, leading to extreme hardship and incidents of cannibalism.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Donner Party encampment of 1846–1847