Illinois expedition
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The Illinois expedition was a Revolutionary War military campaign led by George Rogers Clark that secured the Illinois Country for the American colonies by capturing key British-held forts in the Northwest Territory.
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| Illinois expedition canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16319792 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Illinois expedition Context triple: [Illinois campaign, alsoKnownAs, Illinois expedition]
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Price’s Missouri Expedition
Price’s Missouri Expedition was a major 1864 Confederate cavalry campaign into Missouri led by General Sterling Price, intended to capture the state and influence the U.S. presidential election but ultimately ending in failure.
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Gutierrez–Magee Expedition
The Gutierrez–Magee Expedition was an early 19th-century filibustering and revolutionary campaign that attempted to liberate Spanish Texas from Spanish rule during the Mexican War of Independence.
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Red River Expedition
The Red River Expedition was a Canadian military campaign in 1870 sent to the Red River Colony (in present-day Manitoba) to assert federal authority and respond to Louis Riel’s provisional government during the Red River Rebellion.
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Sullivan Expedition
The Sullivan Expedition was a 1779 Continental Army campaign during the American Revolutionary War aimed at destroying Iroquois settlements allied with the British in New York and Pennsylvania.
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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: Illinois expedition Target entity description: The Illinois expedition was a Revolutionary War military campaign led by George Rogers Clark that secured the Illinois Country for the American colonies by capturing key British-held forts in the Northwest Territory.
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A.
Price’s Missouri Expedition
Price’s Missouri Expedition was a major 1864 Confederate cavalry campaign into Missouri led by General Sterling Price, intended to capture the state and influence the U.S. presidential election but ultimately ending in failure.
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B.
Gutierrez–Magee Expedition
The Gutierrez–Magee Expedition was an early 19th-century filibustering and revolutionary campaign that attempted to liberate Spanish Texas from Spanish rule during the Mexican War of Independence.
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C.
Red River Expedition
The Red River Expedition was a Canadian military campaign in 1870 sent to the Red River Colony (in present-day Manitoba) to assert federal authority and respond to Louis Riel’s provisional government during the Red River Rebellion.
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D.
Sullivan Expedition
The Sullivan Expedition was a 1779 Continental Army campaign during the American Revolutionary War aimed at destroying Iroquois settlements allied with the British in New York and Pennsylvania.
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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.