Ra I expedition
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The Ra I expedition was Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s 1969 attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a papyrus-reed boat to demonstrate the possibility of ancient transoceanic contact between African and American civilizations.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22329684 — 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: Ra I expedition Context triple: [Thor Heyerdahl, ledExpedition, Ra I expedition]
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Punt expedition
The Punt expedition was a significant trading voyage organized by the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut to the fabled Land of Punt, renowned for bringing back luxury goods such as incense, myrrh trees, and exotic animals, and famously depicted on the walls of her mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri.
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Mir expeditions
Mir expeditions were long-duration crewed missions to the Soviet and later Russian Mir space station, focused on scientific research, technology testing, and international cooperation in low Earth orbit.
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Sapri expedition
The Sapri expedition was an 1857 failed insurrectionary landing in southern Italy led by Carlo Pisacane, aimed at sparking a popular uprising against the Bourbon monarchy of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
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expedition of Nakhla
The expedition of Nakhla was a pivotal early Muslim raid against a Quraysh caravan near Mecca that intensified tensions and helped precipitate larger battles in the early Islamic period.
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Jeannette Expedition
The Jeannette Expedition was a late 19th-century U.S. Navy Arctic exploration mission led by George W. De Long that sought to reach the North Pole via the Bering Strait but ended in disaster when its ship, USS Jeannette, became trapped and crushed in the ice.
- 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: Ra I expedition Target entity description: The Ra I expedition was Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s 1969 attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a papyrus-reed boat to demonstrate the possibility of ancient transoceanic contact between African and American civilizations.
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A.
Punt expedition
The Punt expedition was a significant trading voyage organized by the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut to the fabled Land of Punt, renowned for bringing back luxury goods such as incense, myrrh trees, and exotic animals, and famously depicted on the walls of her mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri.
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B.
Mir expeditions
Mir expeditions were long-duration crewed missions to the Soviet and later Russian Mir space station, focused on scientific research, technology testing, and international cooperation in low Earth orbit.
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C.
Sapri expedition
The Sapri expedition was an 1857 failed insurrectionary landing in southern Italy led by Carlo Pisacane, aimed at sparking a popular uprising against the Bourbon monarchy of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
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D.
expedition of Nakhla
The expedition of Nakhla was a pivotal early Muslim raid against a Quraysh caravan near Mecca that intensified tensions and helped precipitate larger battles in the early Islamic period.
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E.
Jeannette Expedition
The Jeannette Expedition was a late 19th-century U.S. Navy Arctic exploration mission led by George W. De Long that sought to reach the North Pole via the Bering Strait but ended in disaster when its ship, USS Jeannette, became trapped and crushed in the ice.
- F. None of above. chosen
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