Communist Party of Kampuchea
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The Communist Party of Kampuchea, commonly known as the Khmer Rouge, was the radical Maoist organization that led Cambodia during the late 1970s and was responsible for the Cambodian genocide.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Communist Party of Kampuchea canonical | 9 |
| Party of Democratic Kampuchea | 1 |
| People’s Revolutionary Party of Kampuchea government | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6616002 — 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 Kampuchea Context triple: [Democratic Kampuchea, rulingParty, Communist Party of Kampuchea]
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A.
Indochinese Communist Party
The Indochinese Communist Party was a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist organization in French Indochina that led the struggle for independence, most prominently under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh.
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B.
Lao People’s Revolutionary Party
The Lao People’s Revolutionary Party is the communist political party that has governed Laos as its sole legal ruling party since 1975.
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Khmer People's National Liberation Front
The Khmer People's National Liberation Front was an anti-communist Cambodian resistance movement formed in the late 1970s to oppose the Vietnamese-backed government and advocate for a non-communist, democratic Cambodia.
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D.
Communist Party of Vietnam
The Communist Party of Vietnam is the sole legal political party that leads Vietnam’s one-party socialist state and directs the country’s government and policy.
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E.
Democratic Kampuchea
Democratic Kampuchea was the brutal communist regime led by the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 and was responsible for the deaths of roughly a quarter of the country’s population.
- 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 Kampuchea Target entity description: The Communist Party of Kampuchea, commonly known as the Khmer Rouge, was the radical Maoist organization that led Cambodia during the late 1970s and was responsible for the Cambodian genocide.
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A.
Indochinese Communist Party
The Indochinese Communist Party was a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist organization in French Indochina that led the struggle for independence, most prominently under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh.
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B.
Lao People’s Revolutionary Party
The Lao People’s Revolutionary Party is the communist political party that has governed Laos as its sole legal ruling party since 1975.
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C.
Khmer People's National Liberation Front
The Khmer People's National Liberation Front was an anti-communist Cambodian resistance movement formed in the late 1970s to oppose the Vietnamese-backed government and advocate for a non-communist, democratic Cambodia.
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D.
Communist Party of Vietnam
The Communist Party of Vietnam is the sole legal political party that leads Vietnam’s one-party socialist state and directs the country’s government and policy.
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E.
Democratic Kampuchea
Democratic Kampuchea was the brutal communist regime led by the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 and was responsible for the deaths of roughly a quarter of the country’s population.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Maoist organization
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communist party ⓘ |
| alignedWith | People's Republic of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
CPK
NERFINISHED
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Khmer Rouge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| announcedExistence | 1977 ⓘ |
| armedWing | Revolutionary Army of Kampuchea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cameToPower | 1975 ⓘ |
| capitalDuringRule | Phnom Penh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Cambodia ⓘ |
| deputyLeader | Nuon Chea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1981 ⓘ |
| founded | 1966 ⓘ |
| generalSecretary | Pol Pot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBody | Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquarters | Phnom Penh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
Maoism
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Marxism–Leninism ⓘ agrarian socialism ⓘ communism ⓘ ultranationalism ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Khmer ⓘ |
| leader | Pol Pot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lostPower | 1979 ⓘ |
| nativeName | Kâmpŭchéa Prâchéachôn Padevat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedSecretlyUntil | 1977 ⓘ |
| opposedTo |
Soviet Union
NERFINISHED
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Vietnam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overthrownBy | Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overthrownIn | 1979 ⓘ |
| periodInPower | 1975–1979 ⓘ |
| policy |
abolition of money
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agrarian reorganization ⓘ anti-intellectual repression ⓘ forced collectivization ⓘ mass forced evacuations of cities ⓘ purges of perceived enemies ⓘ |
| precededBy | Workers’ Party of Kampuchea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| responsibleFor | Cambodian genocide ⓘ |
| responsibleForDeaths | approximately 1.5–2 million people ⓘ |
| ruledEntity | Democratic Kampuchea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seniorMember |
Ieng Sary
NERFINISHED
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Khieu Samphan NERFINISHED ⓘ Son Sen NERFINISHED ⓘ Ta Mok NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateIdeologyImplementedIn | Democratic Kampuchea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Party of Democratic Kampuchea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Kampuchea Description of subject: The Communist Party of Kampuchea, commonly known as the Khmer Rouge, was the radical Maoist organization that led Cambodia during the late 1970s and was responsible for the Cambodian genocide.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Party of Democratic Kampuchea
this entity surface form:
People’s Revolutionary Party of Kampuchea government
People's Republic of China (for Khmer Rouge)
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supportedOrganization
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Communist Party of Kampuchea
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