Loyalty Demands Dissent
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Loyalty Demands Dissent is a prominent political and spiritual critique by Thai intellectual and activist Sulak Sivaraksa that challenges authoritarianism and advocates socially engaged Buddhism.
All labels observed (1)
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| Loyalty Demands Dissent canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T862362 — 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: Loyalty Demands Dissent Context triple: [Sulak Sivaraksa, notableWork, Loyalty Demands Dissent]
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Loyalties
Loyalties is a 1922 play by John Galsworthy that explores themes of anti-Semitism, class prejudice, and moral responsibility within upper-class English society.
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Freedom and Resentment
Freedom and Resentment is a landmark philosophical essay by P. F. Strawson that reshaped debates on moral responsibility by emphasizing the role of our interpersonal reactive attitudes over metaphysical theories of free will.
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C.
“Loyalty and Truth”
“Loyalty and Truth” is the traditional Latin motto of King’s College, Cambridge, expressing the college’s core values of faithfulness and integrity.
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D.
On Contradiction
"On Contradiction" is a 1937 philosophical essay by Mao Zedong that systematically applies and develops Marxist dialectical materialism to analyze the nature and role of contradictions in social and historical processes.
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E.
A Call for Unity
A Call for Unity is a 1963 public statement by eight white Alabama clergymen criticizing civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham and urging reliance on the courts, which prompted Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in response.
- 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: Loyalty Demands Dissent Target entity description: Loyalty Demands Dissent is a prominent political and spiritual critique by Thai intellectual and activist Sulak Sivaraksa that challenges authoritarianism and advocates socially engaged Buddhism.
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A.
Loyalties
Loyalties is a 1922 play by John Galsworthy that explores themes of anti-Semitism, class prejudice, and moral responsibility within upper-class English society.
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B.
Freedom and Resentment
Freedom and Resentment is a landmark philosophical essay by P. F. Strawson that reshaped debates on moral responsibility by emphasizing the role of our interpersonal reactive attitudes over metaphysical theories of free will.
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C.
“Loyalty and Truth”
“Loyalty and Truth” is the traditional Latin motto of King’s College, Cambridge, expressing the college’s core values of faithfulness and integrity.
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D.
On Contradiction
"On Contradiction" is a 1937 philosophical essay by Mao Zedong that systematically applies and develops Marxist dialectical materialism to analyze the nature and role of contradictions in social and historical processes.
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E.
A Call for Unity
A Call for Unity is a 1963 public statement by eight white Alabama clergymen criticizing civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham and urging reliance on the courts, which prompted Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in response.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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political critique ⓘ spiritual critique ⓘ |
| advocates |
ethical dissent
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grassroots democracy ⓘ moral accountability of rulers ⓘ nonviolent social change ⓘ socially engaged Buddhism ⓘ |
| author | Sulak Sivaraksa ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Thailand ⓘ |
| criticizes |
authoritarian regimes
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consumer capitalism ⓘ militarism ⓘ state repression ⓘ unquestioning loyalty to authority ⓘ |
| genre |
Buddhist studies
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political philosophy ⓘ social criticism ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Buddhist ethics in politics
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Thai monarchy and society ⓘ civil disobedience ⓘ consumerism and materialism ⓘ critique of authoritarianism ⓘ critique of nationalism ⓘ freedom of expression ⓘ human rights ⓘ moral courage ⓘ moral responsibility of citizens ⓘ nonviolent resistance ⓘ role of religion in public life ⓘ social justice ⓘ structural violence ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Buddhist ethics
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Gandhian nonviolence ⓘ Thai political history ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
authoritarianism
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socially engaged Buddhism ⓘ |
| movement |
Thai democracy movement
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Engaged Buddhism ⓘ
surface form:
engaged Buddhism
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| notableFor |
articulating a Thai form of engaged Buddhism
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linking loyalty with moral dissent ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
Buddhism
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liberal democracy ⓘ nonviolence ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
Buddhist practitioners
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activists ⓘ scholars of religion and politics ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Loyalty Demands Dissent Description of subject: Loyalty Demands Dissent is a prominent political and spiritual critique by Thai intellectual and activist Sulak Sivaraksa that challenges authoritarianism and advocates socially engaged Buddhism.
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subject surface form:
Sulak Sivaraksa