Taiwan Expedition of 1874
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The Taiwan Expedition of 1874 was a Japanese military campaign against Indigenous communities in southern Taiwan that marked Japan’s first overseas intervention in the modern era and asserted its emerging imperial ambitions in East Asia.
All labels observed (1)
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| Taiwan Expedition of 1874 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18288267 — 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: Taiwan Expedition of 1874 Context triple: [Imperial Japanese government forces, conflict, Taiwan Expedition of 1874]
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Japanese–Chinese expedition
The Japanese–Chinese expedition was a joint mountaineering team from Japan and China known for making the first recorded ascent of Nyainqêntanglha Feng in Tibet.
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Shimonoseki Campaign
The Shimonoseki Campaign was a series of mid-19th-century military actions by Western powers against the Chōshū Domain in Japan to force the reopening of the strategic Shimonoseki Strait to international shipping.
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Sakhalin invasion
The Sakhalin invasion was a 1905 Japanese military campaign in the Russo-Japanese War in which Japan seized control of Russia’s Sakhalin Island.
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First Sino-Japanese War
The First Sino-Japanese War was an 1894–1895 conflict between Qing dynasty China and Meiji Japan that marked Japan’s emergence as a major regional power and led to Chinese territorial losses, including Taiwan.
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E.
Siege of Port Arthur
The Siege of Port Arthur was a pivotal and brutal land and naval battle in 1904–1905 in which Japanese forces captured the heavily fortified Russian naval base at Port Arthur, decisively shaping the outcome of the Russo-Japanese 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: Taiwan Expedition of 1874 Target entity description: The Taiwan Expedition of 1874 was a Japanese military campaign against Indigenous communities in southern Taiwan that marked Japan’s first overseas intervention in the modern era and asserted its emerging imperial ambitions in East Asia.
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A.
Japanese–Chinese expedition
The Japanese–Chinese expedition was a joint mountaineering team from Japan and China known for making the first recorded ascent of Nyainqêntanglha Feng in Tibet.
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B.
Shimonoseki Campaign
The Shimonoseki Campaign was a series of mid-19th-century military actions by Western powers against the Chōshū Domain in Japan to force the reopening of the strategic Shimonoseki Strait to international shipping.
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C.
Sakhalin invasion
The Sakhalin invasion was a 1905 Japanese military campaign in the Russo-Japanese War in which Japan seized control of Russia’s Sakhalin Island.
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D.
First Sino-Japanese War
The First Sino-Japanese War was an 1894–1895 conflict between Qing dynasty China and Meiji Japan that marked Japan’s emergence as a major regional power and led to Chinese territorial losses, including Taiwan.
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E.
Siege of Port Arthur
The Siege of Port Arthur was a pivotal and brutal land and naval battle in 1904–1905 in which Japanese forces captured the heavily fortified Russian naval base at Port Arthur, decisively shaping the outcome of the Russo-Japanese War.
- F. None of above. chosen
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