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Noun Named Entity
Categories: 19th-century Scottish people, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Royal Navy admirals, Scottish polar explorers, Scottish expatriates in Sweden
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Ross  John Ross  Sir John Ross  First Ross Expedition  second Ross expedition
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Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856) WordNet 3.0
English:
Arctic explorer
Royal Navy officer
Definitions
Relations
Sources
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Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Sir John Ross was a Scottish Royal Navy officer and polar explorer. Wikipedia
British naval officer and Polar explorer Wikipedia Disambiguation
British naval officer and Arctic explorer Wikidata
IS A
explorer
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations
Founder’s Medal
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Great Britain
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Nordisk familjebok
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
FAMILY NAME
Ross
GIVEN NAME
John
HAS WORKS IN THE COLLECTION
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MILITARY BRANCH
Royal Navy
MILITARY RANK
captain
rear admiral
lieutenant
OCCUPATION
naval officer
painter
explorer
PLACE OF BIRTH
Stranraer
PLACE OF BURIAL
Kensal Green Cemetery
PLACE OF DEATH
London
RELATIVE
Ross
SEX OR GENDER
male
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Ross, John Ross, Sir John Ross
Wikipedia
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John Ross (Royal Navy officer)
Wikidata
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John Ross
Wikipedia Redirections
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First Ross Expedition, John Ross (Arctic explorer), second Ross expedition, Sir John Ross
Wikidata Alias
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Ross, Sir John Ross, Sir Ross

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