Martius and Spix’s journey through Brazil
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"Martius and Spix’s journey through Brazil" was a major early 19th-century scientific expedition across Brazil by German naturalists Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius and Johann Baptist von Spix, renowned for its extensive contributions to botany, zoology, and ethnography.
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| Martius and Spix’s journey through Brazil canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16768181 — 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: Martius and Spix’s journey through Brazil Context triple: [Austro-Brazilian expedition (1817–1820), hasPart, Martius and Spix’s journey through Brazil]
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The Discovery of Brazil
The Discovery of Brazil is a monumental painting by Brazilian modernist artist Cândido Portinari that depicts the arrival of the Portuguese in Brazil with dramatic, historically themed imagery.
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B.
Brazilian Adventure
Brazilian Adventure is a 1933 travel book by British writer Peter Fleming recounting his ill-fated expedition into the Brazilian jungle in search of the missing explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett.
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C.
Brazilian Wilderness (with Theodore Roosevelt)
"Brazilian Wilderness (with Theodore Roosevelt)" is a travel and exploration narrative recounting Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt’s 1913–1914 expedition through the Brazilian rainforest and down the River of Doubt.
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D.
1924–1925 Amazon and Rio Branco expedition
The 1924–1925 Amazon and Rio Branco expedition was a major exploratory and scientific journey led by Alexander Hamilton Rice Jr. that mapped remote regions of the Amazon Basin and advanced geographic and ethnographic knowledge of the area.
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E.
1916–1917 Amazon Basin expedition
The 1916–1917 Amazon Basin expedition was an early 20th-century exploratory journey through the Amazon led by American geographer and physician Alexander Hamilton Rice Jr., aimed at mapping remote regions and studying the river system and its surrounding environment.
- 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: Martius and Spix’s journey through Brazil Target entity description: "Martius and Spix’s journey through Brazil" was a major early 19th-century scientific expedition across Brazil by German naturalists Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius and Johann Baptist von Spix, renowned for its extensive contributions to botany, zoology, and ethnography.
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A.
The Discovery of Brazil
The Discovery of Brazil is a monumental painting by Brazilian modernist artist Cândido Portinari that depicts the arrival of the Portuguese in Brazil with dramatic, historically themed imagery.
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B.
Brazilian Adventure
Brazilian Adventure is a 1933 travel book by British writer Peter Fleming recounting his ill-fated expedition into the Brazilian jungle in search of the missing explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett.
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C.
Brazilian Wilderness (with Theodore Roosevelt)
"Brazilian Wilderness (with Theodore Roosevelt)" is a travel and exploration narrative recounting Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt’s 1913–1914 expedition through the Brazilian rainforest and down the River of Doubt.
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D.
1924–1925 Amazon and Rio Branco expedition
The 1924–1925 Amazon and Rio Branco expedition was a major exploratory and scientific journey led by Alexander Hamilton Rice Jr. that mapped remote regions of the Amazon Basin and advanced geographic and ethnographic knowledge of the area.
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E.
1916–1917 Amazon Basin expedition
The 1916–1917 Amazon Basin expedition was an early 20th-century exploratory journey through the Amazon led by American geographer and physician Alexander Hamilton Rice Jr., aimed at mapping remote regions and studying the river system and its surrounding environment.
- F. None of above. chosen
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