La Pérouse expedition
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The La Pérouse expedition was a major late-18th-century French scientific and exploratory voyage in the Pacific and around the world that mysteriously disappeared, becoming one of the era’s great maritime enigmas.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| La Pérouse expedition canonical | 4 |
| Lapérouse expedition | 1 |
| Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5660228 — 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: La Pérouse expedition Context triple: [Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, knownFor, La Pérouse expedition]
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voyage of Louis Antoine de Bougainville
The voyage of Louis Antoine de Bougainville was an 18th-century French circumnavigation of the globe that contributed significantly to European geographic knowledge and Enlightenment-era encounters with Pacific societies.
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Helder Expedition
The Helder Expedition was a 1799 joint British and Russian military campaign during the French Revolutionary Wars aimed at seizing control of the northern Netherlands from French-aligned forces.
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Pacific exploration voyage of 1721–1722
The Pacific exploration voyage of 1721–1722 was a Danish-led expedition under Vitus Bering that sought to explore and map the North Pacific and clarify the geographical relationship between Asia and North America.
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Challenger expedition
The Challenger expedition was a pioneering 19th-century scientific voyage that laid the foundations of modern oceanography through systematic deep-sea exploration and data collection.
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Danish Galathea expedition
The Danish Galathea expedition was a mid-20th-century Danish oceanographic research voyage renowned for its deep-sea explorations and scientific discoveries in some of the world’s deepest ocean trenches.
- 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: La Pérouse expedition Target entity description: The La Pérouse expedition was a major late-18th-century French scientific and exploratory voyage in the Pacific and around the world that mysteriously disappeared, becoming one of the era’s great maritime enigmas.
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A.
voyage of Louis Antoine de Bougainville
The voyage of Louis Antoine de Bougainville was an 18th-century French circumnavigation of the globe that contributed significantly to European geographic knowledge and Enlightenment-era encounters with Pacific societies.
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B.
Helder Expedition
The Helder Expedition was a 1799 joint British and Russian military campaign during the French Revolutionary Wars aimed at seizing control of the northern Netherlands from French-aligned forces.
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C.
Pacific exploration voyage of 1721–1722
The Pacific exploration voyage of 1721–1722 was a Danish-led expedition under Vitus Bering that sought to explore and map the North Pacific and clarify the geographical relationship between Asia and North America.
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D.
Challenger expedition
The Challenger expedition was a pioneering 19th-century scientific voyage that laid the foundations of modern oceanography through systematic deep-sea exploration and data collection.
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E.
Danish Galathea expedition
The Danish Galathea expedition was a mid-20th-century Danish oceanographic research voyage renowned for its deep-sea explorations and scientific discoveries in some of the world’s deepest ocean trenches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: La Pérouse expedition Description of subject: The La Pérouse expedition was a major late-18th-century French scientific and exploratory voyage in the Pacific and around the world that mysteriously disappeared, becoming one of the era’s great maritime enigmas.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: La Pérouse expedition
linked to: La Pérouse expedition