Quiberon expedition
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The Quiberon expedition was a failed 1795 British-backed Royalist landing on the Quiberon Peninsula in Brittany during the French Revolutionary Wars, intended to spark a counter-revolution against the French Republic.
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| Quiberon expedition canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14753985 — 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: Quiberon expedition Context triple: [HMS Indefatigable (1794), tookPartIn, Quiberon expedition]
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Walcheren Campaign
The Walcheren Campaign was a disastrous 1809 British military expedition to the Netherlands during the Napoleonic Wars, notorious for heavy losses to disease and its failure to achieve strategic objectives.
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Bagne of Toulon
The Bagne of Toulon was a notorious French naval penal labor colony where convicts endured harsh conditions, famously depicted as the prison of Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo’s "Les Misérables."
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Battle of Corunna
The Battle of Corunna was a 1809 engagement of the Peninsular War in which British forces under Sir John Moore fought a rearguard action against French troops led by Marshal Nicolas Soult, enabling the British army’s evacuation from Spain.
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D.
Morea campaign
The Morea campaign was an Ottoman military operation aimed at reasserting control over the Peloponnese (Morea) peninsula during the Greek War of Independence in the 19th century.
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E.
Battle of Groix
The Battle of Groix was a naval engagement fought in June 1795 during the French Revolutionary Wars, in which the British Royal Navy defeated the French fleet off the coast of Brittany.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Quiberon expedition Target entity description: The Quiberon expedition was a failed 1795 British-backed Royalist landing on the Quiberon Peninsula in Brittany during the French Revolutionary Wars, intended to spark a counter-revolution against the French Republic.
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A.
Walcheren Campaign
The Walcheren Campaign was a disastrous 1809 British military expedition to the Netherlands during the Napoleonic Wars, notorious for heavy losses to disease and its failure to achieve strategic objectives.
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B.
Bagne of Toulon
The Bagne of Toulon was a notorious French naval penal labor colony where convicts endured harsh conditions, famously depicted as the prison of Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo’s "Les Misérables."
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C.
Battle of Corunna
The Battle of Corunna was a 1809 engagement of the Peninsular War in which British forces under Sir John Moore fought a rearguard action against French troops led by Marshal Nicolas Soult, enabling the British army’s evacuation from Spain.
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D.
Morea campaign
The Morea campaign was an Ottoman military operation aimed at reasserting control over the Peloponnese (Morea) peninsula during the Greek War of Independence in the 19th century.
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E.
Battle of Groix
The Battle of Groix was a naval engagement fought in June 1795 during the French Revolutionary Wars, in which the British Royal Navy defeated the French fleet off the coast of Brittany.
- F. None of above. chosen
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