British Yangtze campaign
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The British Yangtze campaign was a series of Royal Navy and military operations along China’s Yangtze River during the First Opium War, aimed at forcing open trade and securing British commercial and strategic interests.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| British Yangtze campaign canonical | 1 |
| British expeditionary forces in China | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23366368 — 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: British Yangtze campaign Context triple: [Battle of Chinkiang, campaign, British Yangtze campaign]
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British Irrawaddy River campaign
The British Irrawaddy River campaign was a series of British military operations conducted along Burma’s Irrawaddy River during the First Anglo-Burmese War to secure control over key inland territories.
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Oriental Province campaign
The Oriental Province campaign was a major military operation during the Argentine War of Independence aimed at securing control over the Banda Oriental (present-day Uruguay) from Spanish royalist forces.
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Keelung Campaign
The Keelung Campaign was a series of military operations during the Sino-French War (1884–1885) in which French forces attempted to seize and hold the port of Keelung in northern Taiwan from Qing China.
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Cochinchina campaign
The Cochinchina campaign was a mid-19th-century French and Spanish military intervention in southern Vietnam that led to the establishment of French colonial rule in the region.
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Battle of Weihaiwei
The Battle of Weihaiwei was a decisive 1895 naval and land engagement in which Japan destroyed China’s Beiyang Fleet and secured control of the Yellow Sea during the First Sino-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: British Yangtze campaign Target entity description: The British Yangtze campaign was a series of Royal Navy and military operations along China’s Yangtze River during the First Opium War, aimed at forcing open trade and securing British commercial and strategic interests.
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A.
British Irrawaddy River campaign
The British Irrawaddy River campaign was a series of British military operations conducted along Burma’s Irrawaddy River during the First Anglo-Burmese War to secure control over key inland territories.
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B.
Oriental Province campaign
The Oriental Province campaign was a major military operation during the Argentine War of Independence aimed at securing control over the Banda Oriental (present-day Uruguay) from Spanish royalist forces.
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C.
Keelung Campaign
The Keelung Campaign was a series of military operations during the Sino-French War (1884–1885) in which French forces attempted to seize and hold the port of Keelung in northern Taiwan from Qing China.
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D.
Cochinchina campaign
The Cochinchina campaign was a mid-19th-century French and Spanish military intervention in southern Vietnam that led to the establishment of French colonial rule in the region.
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E.
Battle of Weihaiwei
The Battle of Weihaiwei was a decisive 1895 naval and land engagement in which Japan destroyed China’s Beiyang Fleet and secured control of the Yellow Sea during the First Sino-Japanese War.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: British Yangtze campaign