Sapri expedition
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sapri expedition canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8737500 — 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: Sapri expedition Context triple: [Carlo Pisacane, knownFor, Sapri expedition]
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Loaísa expedition
The Loaísa expedition was a 16th-century Spanish voyage led by García Jofre de Loaísa that attempted to reach the Spice Islands via the Strait of Magellan, becoming one of the earliest major Pacific expeditions after Magellan.
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Gaselee Expedition
The Gaselee Expedition was an international military relief force led by British General Sir Alfred Gaselee in 1900 to lift the siege of foreign legations in Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion.
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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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Granma expedition
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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E.
Aunus expedition
The Aunus expedition was a 1919 Finnish military campaign into Eastern Karelia during the post–World War I turmoil, aimed at annexing the region from Soviet Russia.
- 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: Sapri expedition Target entity description: 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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A.
Loaísa expedition
The Loaísa expedition was a 16th-century Spanish voyage led by García Jofre de Loaísa that attempted to reach the Spice Islands via the Strait of Magellan, becoming one of the earliest major Pacific expeditions after Magellan.
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B.
Gaselee Expedition
The Gaselee Expedition was an international military relief force led by British General Sir Alfred Gaselee in 1900 to lift the siege of foreign legations in Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion.
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C.
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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D.
Granma expedition
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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E.
Aunus expedition
The Aunus expedition was a 1919 Finnish military campaign into Eastern Karelia during the post–World War I turmoil, aimed at annexing the region from Soviet Russia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
event in Italian unification
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failed military expedition ⓘ insurrectionary expedition ⓘ |
| chronologyWithin | pre-Garibaldi revolutionary attempts ⓘ |
| conflict | struggle against Bourbon rule in southern Italy ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ⓘ |
| describedIn | La spigolatrice di Sapri ⓘ |
| followedBy | Expedition of the Thousand ⓘ |
| goal |
overthrow Bourbon rule in southern Italy
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spark popular uprising ⓘ |
| hasCause | opposition to Bourbon monarchy ⓘ |
| hasEffect |
death of Carlo Pisacane
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repression of local supporters ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalPeriod |
Risorgimento era
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linked to:
Italian Risorgimento
|
| hasType | armed landing ⓘ |
| ideology |
Italian nationalism
ⓘ
republicanism ⓘ revolutionary socialism ⓘ |
| languageOfContext | Italian ⓘ |
| leader | Carlo Pisacane ⓘ |
| location |
Sapri
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southern Italy ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Sapri ⓘ |
| notableFor |
attempt to incite peasants to revolt
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its commemoration in Italian literature and memory ⓘ small size of the revolutionary force ⓘ |
| opponent |
Bourbon monarchy of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
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linked to:
Bourbon-Two Sicilies
|
| participant |
Carlo Pisacane
ⓘ
revolutionary volunteers ⓘ |
| partOf |
Risorgimento
ⓘ
linked to:
Italian Risorgimento
|
| precededBy | failed uprisings in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ⓘ |
| result | failure ⓘ |
| significance | symbol of heroic but unsuccessful Risorgimento action ⓘ |
| significantPerson | Carlo Pisacane ⓘ |
| startTime | 1857 ⓘ |
| temporalContext | mid-19th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Sapri expedition Description of subject: 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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