People's Liberation Army
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The People's Liberation Army is the unified military organization of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party, encompassing its land, sea, air, rocket, and strategic support forces.
All labels observed (35)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T96572 — 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: People's Liberation Army Context triple: [Chinese Communist Party forces, successor, People's Liberation Army]
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A.
Chinese Communist Party forces
Chinese Communist Party forces were the military units loyal to the Chinese Communist Party that fought against Japanese invasion and occupation in China during the late 1930s and early 1940s.
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B.
Polish People’s Army
The Polish People’s Army was the communist-era military force of Poland, organized under Soviet influence and serving as the armed wing of the Polish People’s Republic during the Cold War.
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C.
Imperial Japanese Army
The Imperial Japanese Army was the ground-based military force of the Empire of Japan, playing a central role in Japan’s expansion and major conflicts across East Asia and the Pacific during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including World War II.
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D.
Red Army
The Red Army was the Soviet Union’s land-based military force, renowned for its pivotal role in defeating Nazi Germany during World War II and shaping the outcome of the Eastern Front.
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E.
Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China, leading the country’s one-party socialist system since 1949.
- 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: People's Liberation Army Target entity description: The People's Liberation Army is the unified military organization of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party, encompassing its land, sea, air, rocket, and strategic support forces.
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A.
Chinese Communist Party forces
Chinese Communist Party forces were the military units loyal to the Chinese Communist Party that fought against Japanese invasion and occupation in China during the late 1930s and early 1940s.
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B.
Polish People’s Army
The Polish People’s Army was the communist-era military force of Poland, organized under Soviet influence and serving as the armed wing of the Polish People’s Republic during the Cold War.
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C.
Imperial Japanese Army
The Imperial Japanese Army was the ground-based military force of the Empire of Japan, playing a central role in Japan’s expansion and major conflicts across East Asia and the Pacific during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including World War II.
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D.
Red Army
The Red Army was the Soviet Union’s land-based military force, renowned for its pivotal role in defeating Nazi Germany during World War II and shaping the outcome of the Eastern Front.
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E.
Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China, leading the country’s one-party socialist system since 1949.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (67)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
armed force
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military organization ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Chinese Communist Party
ⓘ
China ⓘ
surface form:
People's Republic of China
|
| anniversary | Army Day ⓘ |
| anniversaryDate | August 1 ⓘ |
| armedWingOf | Chinese Communist Party ⓘ |
| budget | funded by central government of the People's Republic of China ⓘ |
| chairmanOfCentralMilitaryCommission | Xi Jinping ⓘ |
| conscription | selective conscription system ⓘ |
| controlledBy |
Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Military Commission of the Chinese Communist Party
Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China ⓘ |
| country |
China
ⓘ
surface form:
People's Republic of China
|
| cyberWarfareCapability |
People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force
ⓘ
surface form:
Strategic Support Force
|
| educationSystem | PLA military academies and universities ⓘ |
| emblem | PLA insignia with red star and Chinese characters "八一" ⓘ |
| engagedIn |
Chinese Civil War (early phase)
ⓘ
surface form:
Chinese Civil War
Chinese involvement in the Cambodian Civil War ⓘ Chinese involvement in the Laotian Civil War ⓘ Chinese involvement in the Vietnam War ⓘ Korean War ⓘ Sino-Indian War ⓘ Sino–Soviet border conflict ⓘ
surface form:
Sino-Soviet border conflict
Sino-Vietnamese War ⓘ |
| formerName |
People's Liberation Army
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
National Revolutionary Army 8th Route Army ⓘ
surface form:
Eighth Route Army
New Fourth Army ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1927-08-01 ⓘ |
| foundingEvent | Nanchang Uprising ⓘ |
| garrison | Beijing ⓘ |
| hasBranch |
People's Armed Police
ⓘ
Chinese Air Force ⓘ
surface form:
People's Liberation Army Air Force
People's Liberation Army self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
People's Liberation Army Ground Force
People's Liberation Army self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
People's Liberation Army Navy
People's Liberation Army self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
People's Liberation Army Rocket Force
People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
militia forces
ⓘ
reserve forces ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Beijing ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Constitution of the People's Republic of China ⓘ |
| mainDoctrine | active defense ⓘ |
| mission |
safeguarding development interests of China
ⓘ
safeguarding national security ⓘ safeguarding national sovereignty ⓘ |
| modernizationProgram | mechanization and informatization of forces ⓘ |
| motto | 为人民服务 ⓘ |
| mottoTranslation | Serve the People ⓘ |
| nativeName |
People's Liberation Army
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
中国人民解放军
|
| nuclearForce | maintains China's land-based nuclear missile forces through the Rocket Force ⓘ |
| participatesIn |
UN peacekeepers
ⓘ
surface form:
United Nations peacekeeping operations
|
| partOf |
China
ⓘ
surface form:
People's Republic of China
|
| politicalWorkSystem | PLA political commissar system ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | Standard Chinese ⓘ |
| role |
national defense of China
ⓘ
protection of Chinese maritime rights ⓘ protection of Chinese sovereignty ⓘ protection of Chinese territorial integrity ⓘ support of Chinese Communist Party rule ⓘ |
| serviceType |
combined arms
ⓘ
regular armed forces ⓘ |
| shortName | PLA ⓘ |
| size | one of the world's largest military forces ⓘ |
| spaceWarfareCapability |
People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force
ⓘ
surface form:
Strategic Support Force
|
| supremeCommander | Xi Jinping ⓘ |
| symbol | August 1st insignia ⓘ |
| trainingFocus |
informationized warfare
ⓘ
joint operations ⓘ |
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: People's Liberation Army Description of subject: The People's Liberation Army is the unified military organization of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party, encompassing its land, sea, air, rocket, and strategic support forces.
Referenced by (240)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
National Defense Law of the People's Republic of China
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specifiesRoleOf
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People's Liberation Army
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this entity surface form:
armed forces of the People's Republic of China
this entity surface form:
armed forces of the People's Republic of China
Office for Reform and Organizational Structure of the Central Military Commission
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appliesTo
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People's Liberation Army
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
People’s Liberation Army
subject surface form:
National Revolutionary Army
this entity surface form:
Chinese Communist forces
this entity surface form:
Chinese Communist forces
this entity surface form:
Chinese Communist forces
this entity surface form:
Chinese armed forces
subject surface form:
People’s Armed Police
this entity surface form:
People’s Republic of China armed forces
subject surface form:
People’s Armed Police
this entity surface form:
People’s Liberation Army
this entity surface form:
Chinese Communist forces
this entity surface form:
People’s Liberation Army
this entity surface form:
Chinese Communist forces
this entity surface form:
People's Liberation Army (China)
this entity surface form:
People's Liberation Army forces
subject surface form:
Government of the People's Republic of China
subject surface form:
People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force
this entity surface form:
People’s Liberation Army
this entity surface form:
Chinese armed forces
this entity surface form:
People’s Liberation Army
this entity surface form:
People’s Liberation Army
this entity surface form:
People’s Liberation Army
this entity surface form:
Chinese armed forces
this entity surface form:
Chinese armed forces
this entity surface form:
People’s Liberation Army
this entity surface form:
People’s Liberation Army