Jose Maria Sison
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Jose Maria Sison was a Filipino revolutionary leader, writer, and political activist best known for leading the Maoist insurgency in the Philippines and serving as its chief ideologue.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jose Maria Sison canonical | 5 |
| Joma Sison | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3000033 — 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: Jose Maria Sison Context triple: [Communist Party of the Philippines, founder, Jose Maria Sison]
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A.
Juan Ponce Enrile
Juan Ponce Enrile is a Filipino lawyer, politician, and long-time government official who played a pivotal role in the 1986 transition from Ferdinand Marcos’s dictatorship to a restored democracy.
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B.
Gregorio Aglipay
Gregorio Aglipay was a Filipino Catholic priest, nationalist, and religious leader who became the first Obispo Máximo (supreme bishop) of the Philippine Independent Church after breaking from the Roman Catholic Church during the Philippine struggle for independence.
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C.
Macario Sakay
Macario Sakay was a Filipino revolutionary general and later guerrilla leader who continued the struggle for Philippine independence against American colonial rule in the early 20th century.
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D.
Apolinario Mabini
Apolinario Mabini was a Filipino revolutionary thinker, statesman, and chief adviser of the First Philippine Republic, renowned as the "Brains of the Revolution" for his pivotal role in shaping the country's early political foundations.
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E.
Andrés Bonifacio
Andrés Bonifacio was a Filipino nationalist and revolutionary who founded the Katipunan and is often regarded as the "Father of the Philippine Revolution" against Spanish colonial rule.
- 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: Jose Maria Sison Target entity description: Jose Maria Sison was a Filipino revolutionary leader, writer, and political activist best known for leading the Maoist insurgency in the Philippines and serving as its chief ideologue.
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A.
Juan Ponce Enrile
Juan Ponce Enrile is a Filipino lawyer, politician, and long-time government official who played a pivotal role in the 1986 transition from Ferdinand Marcos’s dictatorship to a restored democracy.
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B.
Gregorio Aglipay
Gregorio Aglipay was a Filipino Catholic priest, nationalist, and religious leader who became the first Obispo Máximo (supreme bishop) of the Philippine Independent Church after breaking from the Roman Catholic Church during the Philippine struggle for independence.
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C.
Macario Sakay
Macario Sakay was a Filipino revolutionary general and later guerrilla leader who continued the struggle for Philippine independence against American colonial rule in the early 20th century.
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D.
Apolinario Mabini
Apolinario Mabini was a Filipino revolutionary thinker, statesman, and chief adviser of the First Philippine Republic, renowned as the "Brains of the Revolution" for his pivotal role in shaping the country's early political foundations.
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E.
Andrés Bonifacio
Andrés Bonifacio was a Filipino nationalist and revolutionary who founded the Katipunan and is often regarded as the "Father of the Philippine Revolution" against Spanish colonial rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Filipino revolutionary
ⓘ
communist leader ⓘ human ⓘ political activist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| alias |
Jose Maria Sison
ⓘ
surface form:
Joma Sison
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| arrestedBy |
Philippine government
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of the Philippines
|
| causeOfDeath | heart failure ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Philippines ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-02-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2022-12-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
UP Diliman
ⓘ
surface form:
University of the Philippines Diliman
|
| exileStatus | political exile in the Netherlands ⓘ |
| familyName | Sison ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Maoist theory
ⓘ
Marxist theory ⓘ revolutionary politics ⓘ |
| founded |
Communist Party of the Philippines
ⓘ
surface form:
Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)
National Democratic Front of the Philippines ⓘ
surface form:
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP)
New People's Army ⓘ
surface form:
New People’s Army (NPA)
|
| fullName | Jose Maria Canlas Sison ⓘ |
| genre |
poetry
ⓘ
political essays ⓘ |
| givenName | Jose Maria ⓘ |
| ideology |
Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
ⓘ
communism ⓘ national democracy ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Filipino ⓘ |
| movement |
Communist insurgency in the Philippines
ⓘ
surface form:
Maoist insurgency in the Philippines
Kabataang Makabayan ⓘ
surface form:
Philippine national democratic movement
|
| nationality | Filipino ⓘ |
| notableIdea | people’s war in the Philippine context ⓘ |
| notableRole |
chief ideologue of the Communist Party of the Philippines
ⓘ
founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines ⓘ |
| notableWork | Philippine Society and Revolution ⓘ |
| opposed |
Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship
ⓘ
United States involvement in Philippine affairs ⓘ |
| periodOfExileStart | 1987 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Cabuyao, Laguna
ⓘ
surface form:
Cabuyao, Laguna, Philippines
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| placeOfDeath | Utrecht, Netherlands ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines
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Chief Political Consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines ⓘ |
| religion | atheism ⓘ |
| residence | Utrecht, Netherlands ⓘ |
| spouse | Julieta de Lima ⓘ |
| yearOfArrest | 1977 ⓘ |
| yearOfReleaseFromPrison | 1986 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Jose Maria Sison Description of subject: Jose Maria Sison was a Filipino revolutionary leader, writer, and political activist best known for leading the Maoist insurgency in the Philippines and serving as its chief ideologue.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Joma Sison
subject surface form:
Communist Party of the Philippines