An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere
E785580
An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere is an 18th-century multi-volume work edited by John Hawkesworth that compiles and narrates British exploratory voyages, including those of Captain James Cook, to the southern Pacific and Antarctic regions.
All labels observed (1)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9215434 — 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.
Target entity: An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere Context triple: [A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, relatedWork, An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere]
-
A.
A Voyage of Discovery into the South Sea and Beering’s Straits
"A Voyage of Discovery into the South Sea and Beering’s Straits" is the published account of the early 19th-century Russian circumnavigation voyage of the Rurik, documenting its scientific explorations and discoveries in the Pacific and Bering Strait regions.
-
B.
Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo
Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo is Antonio Pigafetta’s detailed eyewitness account of Ferdinand Magellan’s circumnavigation, providing one of the earliest and most important narratives of the first voyage around the world.
-
C.
A Voyage Towards the South Pole Performed in the Years 1822–24
A Voyage Towards the South Pole Performed in the Years 1822–24 is James Weddell’s published account of his early 19th-century Antarctic expedition, notable for reaching a then-record southern latitude in what is now called the Weddell Sea.
-
D.
Supplément au voyage de Bougainville
Supplément au voyage de Bougainville is a philosophical dialogue by Denis Diderot that critiques European colonialism and morality through a fictional commentary on Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s Pacific voyage.
-
E.
Journal of the Endeavour voyage
The "Journal of the Endeavour voyage" is the detailed account kept by naturalist Joseph Banks during Captain James Cook’s first Pacific expedition (1768–1771), documenting scientific observations, encounters with Indigenous peoples, and the natural history of newly explored regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere Target entity description: An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere is an 18th-century multi-volume work edited by John Hawkesworth that compiles and narrates British exploratory voyages, including those of Captain James Cook, to the southern Pacific and Antarctic regions.
-
A.
A Voyage of Discovery into the South Sea and Beering’s Straits
"A Voyage of Discovery into the South Sea and Beering’s Straits" is the published account of the early 19th-century Russian circumnavigation voyage of the Rurik, documenting its scientific explorations and discoveries in the Pacific and Bering Strait regions.
-
B.
Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo
Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo is Antonio Pigafetta’s detailed eyewitness account of Ferdinand Magellan’s circumnavigation, providing one of the earliest and most important narratives of the first voyage around the world.
-
C.
A Voyage Towards the South Pole Performed in the Years 1822–24
A Voyage Towards the South Pole Performed in the Years 1822–24 is James Weddell’s published account of his early 19th-century Antarctic expedition, notable for reaching a then-record southern latitude in what is now called the Weddell Sea.
-
D.
Supplément au voyage de Bougainville
Supplément au voyage de Bougainville is a philosophical dialogue by Denis Diderot that critiques European colonialism and morality through a fictional commentary on Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s Pacific voyage.
-
E.
Journal of the Endeavour voyage
The "Journal of the Endeavour voyage" is the detailed account kept by naturalist Joseph Banks during Captain James Cook’s first Pacific expedition (1768–1771), documenting scientific observations, encounters with Indigenous peoples, and the natural history of newly explored regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
travel literature ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
British Empire expansion
ⓘ
Royal Society NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissionedBy |
British Admiralty
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
accounts of British voyages in the South Seas
ⓘ
narrative of Captain James Cook’s first voyage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| controversy | criticized for inaccuracies and moral commentary by contemporaries ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| documentsActivity |
cartographic surveying
ⓘ
encounters with Indigenous peoples ⓘ scientific observation during voyages ⓘ |
| editor | John Hawkesworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editorialApproach | Hawkesworth rewrote and unified separate journals into a single narrative NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresVoyagesOf |
James Cook
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Byron NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip Carteret NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel Wallis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focusesOnRegion |
Antarctic regions
ⓘ
southern Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
exploration narrative
ⓘ
historical non-fiction ⓘ |
| historicalPeriodDescribed |
18th-century British exploration
ⓘ
Age of Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
influential in shaping European views of the Pacific
ⓘ
major source for early accounts of James Cook’s voyages ⓘ |
| includes |
descriptions of Tahiti and other Pacific islands
ⓘ
maps and illustrations of newly charted regions ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | compiled narrative from journals and logs ⓘ |
| printingTechnology | letterpress ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| relatedTo | voyages in search of Terra Australis ⓘ |
| relatedWork | The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
British naval expeditions
ⓘ
Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Hemisphere ⓘ exploration ⓘ |
| targetAudience | European reading public interested in exploration ⓘ |
| timeOfPublication | late 18th century ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered | mid-18th century Pacific voyages ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere Description of subject: An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere is an 18th-century multi-volume work edited by John Hawkesworth that compiles and narrates British exploratory voyages, including those of Captain James Cook, to the southern Pacific and Antarctic regions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.