Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the ruling Marxist–Leninist political party that dominated the government and society of the Soviet Union from its founding after the Russian Revolution until its dissolution in 1991.
All labels observed (21)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7096 — 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: Communist Party of the Soviet Union Context triple: [Joseph Stalin, memberOf, Communist Party of the Soviet Union]
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union was a socialist superpower that dominated Eastern Europe and led the communist bloc during the Cold War.
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was the authoritarian leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, overseeing rapid industrialization, World War II victory, and brutal political repression.
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Liberal Democratic Party
The Liberal Democratic Party is Japan’s long-ruling conservative political party that has governed the country for most of the period since its founding in 1955.
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Democratic Party
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, traditionally associated with liberal and progressive policies on social and economic issues.
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United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 that brings together most of the world’s countries to promote peace, security, cooperation, and human rights.
- 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: Communist Party of the Soviet Union Target entity description: The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the ruling Marxist–Leninist political party that dominated the government and society of the Soviet Union from its founding after the Russian Revolution until its dissolution in 1991.
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Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union was the highest legislative body and nominal supreme authority of the USSR, functioning as its national parliament from 1938 until the country's dissolution in 1991.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union was a socialist superpower that dominated Eastern Europe and led the communist bloc during the Cold War.
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was the authoritarian leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, overseeing rapid industrialization, World War II victory, and brutal political repression.
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Liberal Democratic Party
The Liberal Democratic Party is Japan’s long-ruling conservative political party that has governed the country for most of the period since its founding in 1955.
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E.
Democratic Party
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, traditionally associated with liberal and progressive policies on social and economic issues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
political party
ⓘ
ruling party ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
КПСС
|
| associatedWithEvent |
August 1991 Soviet coup attempt
ⓘ
Brezhnev stagnation ⓘ Great Purge ⓘ de-Stalinization ⓘ
surface form:
Khrushchev Thaw
Russian Revolution ⓘ
surface form:
October Revolution
Russian Civil War ⓘ collectivization in the Soviet Union ⓘ de-Stalinization ⓘ glasnost ⓘ perestroika ⓘ |
| bannedBy | Boris Yeltsin (as President of the RSFSR) in 1991 ⓘ |
| childrenWing | Young Pioneers ⓘ |
| constitutionalRole | leading and guiding force of Soviet society and the nucleus of its political system ⓘ |
| constitutionalRoleAdopted |
1977 Constitution of the Soviet Union
ⓘ
surface form:
1977 Soviet Constitution
|
| controlOverSociety | dominated political, economic, and social life of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| controlOverState | dominated government of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| country | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| deFactoStatus | only legal party in the Soviet Union for most of its existence ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1991 ⓘ |
| executiveOrgan |
Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
ⓘ
surface form:
Politburo
|
| flag | red flag with hammer and sickle and star ⓘ |
| founded | 1912 ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) ⓘ |
| founder | Vladimir Lenin ⓘ |
| headquarters | Moscow ⓘ |
| highestBody | Party Congress ⓘ |
| ideology | Marxism–Leninism ⓘ |
| influenced | communist parties worldwide ⓘ |
| internationalAffiliation |
Cominform (from 1947 to 1956)
ⓘ
Comintern (until 1943) ⓘ |
| keyFigure |
Joseph Stalin
ⓘ
Konstantin Chernenko ⓘ Leonid Brezhnev ⓘ Mikhail Gorbachev ⓘ Nikita Khrushchev ⓘ Vladimir Lenin ⓘ Yuri Andropov ⓘ |
| leaderTitle | General Secretary of the Central Committee ⓘ |
| leadingOrgan |
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Committee
|
| legalStatus | banned in 1991 in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ⓘ |
| membershipPeak | over 19 million members ⓘ |
| membershipPeakYear | 1980s ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза
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| paramilitaryWing |
Red Army
ⓘ
surface form:
Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (in early years closely linked)
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| partyNewspaper | Pravda ⓘ |
| partySystemRole | vanguard party ⓘ |
| politicalPosition | far-left ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) ⓘ |
| renamed |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1925
Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1952 ⓘ Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1918
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| secretariat | Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee ⓘ |
| shortName |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
CPSU
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| stateDoctrine | democratic centralism ⓘ |
| successor | Communist Party of the Russian Federation (as main Russian communist successor) ⓘ |
| symbol | hammer and sickle ⓘ |
| youthWing | Komsomol ⓘ |
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: Communist Party of the Soviet Union Description of subject: The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the ruling Marxist–Leninist political party that dominated the government and society of the Soviet Union from its founding after the Russian Revolution until its dissolution in 1991.
Referenced by (506)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.