Angoon Bombardment of 1882
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The Angoon Bombardment of 1882 was a U.S. Navy attack on the Tlingit village of Angoon in Alaska, during which the town was shelled and destroyed following a dispute involving a whaling company.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13864898 — 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: Angoon Bombardment of 1882 Context triple: [Angoon, Alaska, hasHistoricalEvent, Angoon Bombardment of 1882]
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Damansky Island conflict
The Damansky Island conflict was a brief but intense 1969 military clash between the Soviet Union and China over a disputed border island on the Ussuri River, symbolizing the peak of the Sino-Soviet split.
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Fraser Canyon War
The Fraser Canyon War was an 1858 conflict between Indigenous peoples and mainly American gold miners in British Columbia’s Fraser Canyon, sparked by tensions during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush.
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Bombardment of Acre (1840)
The Bombardment of Acre (1840) was a key naval attack by a British-led coalition against Egyptian-held Acre during the Oriental Crisis, helping to force Muhammad Ali of Egypt to relinquish control of Ottoman territories in the Levant.
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Penobscot Expedition
The Penobscot Expedition was a disastrous 1779 American naval and land operation during the Revolutionary War, in which an attempted assault on a British fort in present-day Maine ended in a major defeat and the near-total loss of the American fleet.
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E.
Jameson Raid
The Jameson Raid was a failed 1895–1896 British-led incursion into the Transvaal Republic that helped spark tensions leading to the Second Boer War.
- 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: Angoon Bombardment of 1882 Target entity description: The Angoon Bombardment of 1882 was a U.S. Navy attack on the Tlingit village of Angoon in Alaska, during which the town was shelled and destroyed following a dispute involving a whaling company.
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A.
Damansky Island conflict
The Damansky Island conflict was a brief but intense 1969 military clash between the Soviet Union and China over a disputed border island on the Ussuri River, symbolizing the peak of the Sino-Soviet split.
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B.
Fraser Canyon War
The Fraser Canyon War was an 1858 conflict between Indigenous peoples and mainly American gold miners in British Columbia’s Fraser Canyon, sparked by tensions during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush.
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C.
Bombardment of Acre (1840)
The Bombardment of Acre (1840) was a key naval attack by a British-led coalition against Egyptian-held Acre during the Oriental Crisis, helping to force Muhammad Ali of Egypt to relinquish control of Ottoman territories in the Levant.
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D.
Penobscot Expedition
The Penobscot Expedition was a disastrous 1779 American naval and land operation during the Revolutionary War, in which an attempted assault on a British fort in present-day Maine ended in a major defeat and the near-total loss of the American fleet.
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E.
Jameson Raid
The Jameson Raid was a failed 1895–1896 British-led incursion into the Transvaal Republic that helped spark tensions leading to the Second Boer War.
- F. None of above. chosen
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