Sinews of Peace
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Sinews of Peace is the 1946 speech by Winston Churchill, delivered in Fulton, Missouri, that famously introduced the term "Iron Curtain" to describe the division of postwar Europe.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sinews of Peace canonical | 2 |
| The Sinews of Peace | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T119354 — 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: Sinews of Peace Context triple: [Iron Curtain, notableSpeech, Sinews of Peace]
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A.
The Truce
The Truce is a memoir by Primo Levi recounting his long, circuitous journey home through war-torn Europe after his liberation from Auschwitz.
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B.
Renunciation of War
Renunciation of War is a foundational principle in Japan’s postwar constitution that commits the nation to pacifism by rejecting war and the maintenance of traditional military forces.
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C.
Return to Zion
Return to Zion refers to the period and movement in which Jewish exiles returned from Babylon to their ancestral homeland and rebuilt their religious and communal life, including the restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem.
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D.
The Arts of War
The Arts of War is a pair of monumental equestrian bronze sculptures by Leo Friedlander that symbolize martial valor and sacrifice, installed at the Washington, D.C. entrance to Arlington Memorial Bridge.
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E.
The Path to Freedom
"The Path to Freedom" is a chapter in Carl Sagan’s science book *The Demon-Haunted World* that explores how scientific thinking and skepticism can liberate people from superstition and irrational beliefs.
- 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: Sinews of Peace Target entity description: Sinews of Peace is the 1946 speech by Winston Churchill, delivered in Fulton, Missouri, that famously introduced the term "Iron Curtain" to describe the division of postwar Europe.
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A.
The Truce
The Truce is a memoir by Primo Levi recounting his long, circuitous journey home through war-torn Europe after his liberation from Auschwitz.
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B.
Renunciation of War
Renunciation of War is a foundational principle in Japan’s postwar constitution that commits the nation to pacifism by rejecting war and the maintenance of traditional military forces.
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C.
Return to Zion
Return to Zion refers to the period and movement in which Jewish exiles returned from Babylon to their ancestral homeland and rebuilt their religious and communal life, including the restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem.
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D.
The Arts of War
The Arts of War is a pair of monumental equestrian bronze sculptures by Leo Friedlander that symbolize martial valor and sacrifice, installed at the Washington, D.C. entrance to Arlington Memorial Bridge.
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E.
The Path to Freedom
"The Path to Freedom" is a chapter in Carl Sagan’s science book *The Demon-Haunted World* that explores how scientific thinking and skepticism can liberate people from superstition and irrational beliefs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
political speech
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speech ⓘ |
| alternativeTitle |
Iron Curtain
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surface form:
Iron Curtain speech
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| associatedWithPerson |
President Harry S. Truman
ⓘ
surface form:
Harry S. Truman
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| audience |
American public
ⓘ
students and faculty of Westminster College ⓘ |
| author | Winston Churchill ⓘ |
| calledFor |
firm Western response to Soviet policies
ⓘ
strengthening of the United Nations ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| date | 1946-03-05 ⓘ |
| deliveredAt | Westminster College ⓘ |
| genre | oratory ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
Cold War rhetoric
ⓘ
Western foreign policy discourse ⓘ |
| hasMainMetaphor | Iron Curtain ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | early Cold War ⓘ |
| hostCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| introducedTerm | Iron Curtain ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | live speech ⓘ |
| mentions |
Belgrade
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Berlin ⓘ Bucharest ⓘ Budapest ⓘ Moscow ⓘ Prague ⓘ Sofia ⓘ Vienna ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocating a close partnership between the United Kingdom and the United States
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popularizing the phrase "Iron Curtain" for the division of Europe ⓘ warning about Soviet influence in Eastern Europe ⓘ |
| partOf |
Winston Churchill
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surface form:
Winston Churchill's postwar speeches
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| placeOfSpeech | Fulton, Missouri ⓘ |
| politicalOrientation | anti-communism ⓘ |
| relatedEvent | beginning of the Cold War ⓘ |
| significance | marker of the emerging division between East and West in Europe ⓘ |
| speaker | Winston Churchill ⓘ |
| subject |
Anglo-American relations
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Cold War ⓘ Soviet expansion ⓘ United Nations ⓘ collective security ⓘ postwar Europe ⓘ |
| subsequentPublication | printed text ⓘ |
| title | Sinews of Peace self-link ⓘ |
| year | 1946 ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Sinews of Peace Description of subject: Sinews of Peace is the 1946 speech by Winston Churchill, delivered in Fulton, Missouri, that famously introduced the term "Iron Curtain" to describe the division of postwar Europe.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Sinews of Peace