Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea

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Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea is an early 19th-century exploration account by British naval officer and explorer Sir John Franklin, detailing his arduous travels and observations in the Canadian Arctic.

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Label	Occurrences
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea canonical	2
Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea	1
Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14461849 — 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: Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea
Context triple: [first overland expedition to the Arctic Ocean (1819–1822), documentedIn, Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea]

A. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition
Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition is a multi-volume 19th-century account by Charles Wilkes detailing the U.S. Navy’s pioneering global scientific and exploratory voyage of 1838–1842.
B. My Arctic Journal
My Arctic Journal is an 1893 memoir by Josephine Diebitsch Peary recounting her experiences accompanying her husband Robert Peary on an Arctic expedition.
C. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean is the official multi-volume account of Captain James Cook’s final expedition, detailing his explorations in the North Pacific and the circumstances leading to his death in Hawaii.
D. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean
*A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean* is an 18th-century exploration narrative by Samuel Hearne recounting his overland expedition across northern Canada to the Arctic coast.
E. Journal of a Voyage with Bering
"Journal of a Voyage with Bering" is Georg Wilhelm Steller’s firsthand account of the 1741–1742 Great Northern Expedition with Vitus Bering, documenting the natural history and exploration of the North Pacific and Alaska.
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: Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea
Target entity description: Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea is an early 19th-century exploration account by British naval officer and explorer Sir John Franklin, detailing his arduous travels and observations in the Canadian Arctic.

A. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition
Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition is a multi-volume 19th-century account by Charles Wilkes detailing the U.S. Navy’s pioneering global scientific and exploratory voyage of 1838–1842.
B. My Arctic Journal
My Arctic Journal is an 1893 memoir by Josephine Diebitsch Peary recounting her experiences accompanying her husband Robert Peary on an Arctic expedition.
C. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean is the official multi-volume account of Captain James Cook’s final expedition, detailing his explorations in the North Pacific and the circumstances leading to his death in Hawaii.
D. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean
*A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean* is an 18th-century exploration narrative by Samuel Hearne recounting his overland expedition across northern Canada to the Arctic coast.
E. Journal of a Voyage with Bering
"Journal of a Voyage with Bering" is Georg Wilhelm Steller’s firsthand account of the 1741–1742 Great Northern Expedition with Vitus Bering, documenting the natural history and exploration of the North Pacific and Alaska.
F. None of above. chosen

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

first overland expedition to the Arctic Ocean (1819–1822) → documentedIn → Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea ⓘ

second overland expedition to the Arctic (1825–1827) → documentedIn → Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea ⓘ

this entity surface form: Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea

Coppermine expedition → documentedIn → Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea ⓘ

Sir John Rae → hasWork → Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea ⓘ

this entity surface form: Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847

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