Granma expedition
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The Granma expedition was the 1956 seaborne journey in which Fidel Castro and his followers sailed from Mexico to Cuba to launch the guerrilla war that ignited the Cuban Revolution.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Granma expedition canonical | 4 |
| 1956 Granma expedition | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T282400 — 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: Granma expedition Context triple: [Cuban Revolution, hasPart, Granma expedition]
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Northern Expedition
The Northern Expedition was a 1926–1928 military campaign led by Chiang Kai-shek to unify China under the Nationalist government by defeating regional warlords.
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Transvaal Trek
Transvaal Trek was a segment of the 19th-century Great Trek in which Boer settlers migrated into the Transvaal region to escape British colonial rule and establish independent republics.
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Great Trek
The Great Trek was a 19th-century migration of Dutch-speaking Afrikaner settlers who moved inland from the British-controlled Cape Colony to establish independent Boer republics in southern Africa.
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Polish Andes Expedition
The Polish Andes Expedition was a pioneering mid-20th-century Polish mountaineering team known for major first ascents in the Andes, including the world’s highest volcano, Ojos del Salado.
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E.
Pearl of the West
Pearl of the West is a celebrated nickname for Guadalajara, highlighting its cultural richness, historical significance, and beauty in western Mexico.
- 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: Granma expedition Target entity description: The Granma expedition was the 1956 seaborne journey in which Fidel Castro and his followers sailed from Mexico to Cuba to launch the guerrilla war that ignited the Cuban Revolution.
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A.
Northern Expedition
The Northern Expedition was a 1926–1928 military campaign led by Chiang Kai-shek to unify China under the Nationalist government by defeating regional warlords.
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B.
Transvaal Trek
Transvaal Trek was a segment of the 19th-century Great Trek in which Boer settlers migrated into the Transvaal region to escape British colonial rule and establish independent republics.
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C.
Great Trek
The Great Trek was a 19th-century migration of Dutch-speaking Afrikaner settlers who moved inland from the British-controlled Cape Colony to establish independent Boer republics in southern Africa.
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D.
Polish Andes Expedition
The Polish Andes Expedition was a pioneering mid-20th-century Polish mountaineering team known for major first ascents in the Andes, including the world’s highest volcano, Ojos del Salado.
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E.
Pearl of the West
Pearl of the West is a celebrated nickname for Guadalajara, highlighting its cultural richness, historical significance, and beauty in western Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Granma expedition Description of subject: The Granma expedition was the 1956 seaborne journey in which Fidel Castro and his followers sailed from Mexico to Cuba to launch the guerrilla war that ignited the Cuban Revolution.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.