People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force
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The People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force is a branch of China's military responsible for space, cyber, electronic, and information warfare operations.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T498634 — 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 Strategic Support Force Context triple: [People's Liberation Army, hasBranch, People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force]
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A.
People's Liberation Army
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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B.
Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China
The Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China is the highest national defense and military command authority, overseeing the country's armed forces and military policy.
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C.
Republic of China Armed Forces
The Republic of China Armed Forces is the military of Taiwan, historically central to the Chinese Civil War under Chiang Kai-shek and today responsible for the island’s defense against external threats, particularly from the People’s Republic of China.
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D.
People's Armed Police
The People's Armed Police is a Chinese paramilitary force responsible for internal security, riot control, counterterrorism, and the protection of key facilities under the centralized authority of the Chinese state.
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E.
Chinese Air Force
The Chinese Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of China’s armed forces, responsible for defending the nation’s airspace and conducting air operations in both wartime and peacetime.
- 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 Strategic Support Force Target entity description: The People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force is a branch of China's military responsible for space, cyber, electronic, and information warfare operations.
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A.
People's Liberation Army
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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B.
Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China
The Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China is the highest national defense and military command authority, overseeing the country's armed forces and military policy.
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C.
Republic of China Armed Forces
The Republic of China Armed Forces is the military of Taiwan, historically central to the Chinese Civil War under Chiang Kai-shek and today responsible for the island’s defense against external threats, particularly from the People’s Republic of China.
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D.
People's Armed Police
The People's Armed Police is a Chinese paramilitary force responsible for internal security, riot control, counterterrorism, and the protection of key facilities under the centralized authority of the Chinese state.
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E.
Chinese Air Force
The Chinese Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of China’s armed forces, responsible for defending the nation’s airspace and conducting air operations in both wartime and peacetime.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
information warfare force
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military branch ⓘ |
| allegiance | Chinese Communist Party ⓘ |
| controls |
PLA cyber forces
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PLA electronic warfare forces ⓘ space warfare command ⓘ
surface form:
PLA space forces
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| country |
China
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surface form:
People's Republic of China
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| dateFormed | 2015-12-31 ⓘ |
| doctrineRole |
key force for winning informationized local wars
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pillar of China's strategic deterrence system ⓘ |
| era | 21st century ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
defensive cyber operations
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integrated network and electronic warfare ⓘ offensive cyber operations ⓘ satellite communications support ⓘ satellite navigation support ⓘ space situational awareness ⓘ space-based command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance ⓘ |
| formedBy |
reorganization of existing PLA cyber units
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reorganization of existing PLA electronic warfare units ⓘ reorganization of existing PLA space units ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Base 26
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Base 27 ⓘ Base 29 ⓘ Base 30 ⓘ Base 31 ⓘ Base 311 ⓘ Base 32 ⓘ Base 33 ⓘ Base 36 ⓘ Base 37 ⓘ Base 61 ⓘ Base 64 ⓘ Base 65 ⓘ Base 67 ⓘ Base 68 ⓘ Network Systems Department ⓘ Space Systems Department ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry |
China
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surface form:
People's Republic of China
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| headquartersLocation | Beijing ⓘ |
| mission |
ensure information dominance in warfare
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integrate space, cyber, and electronic warfare capabilities ⓘ protect Chinese information infrastructure ⓘ provide strategic information support to joint operations ⓘ support strategic deterrence ⓘ |
| nativeName |
People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
中国人民解放军战略支援部队
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| nativeNameLanguage | zh ⓘ |
| partOf | People's Liberation Army ⓘ |
| role |
cyber operations
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electromagnetic spectrum operations ⓘ electronic warfare ⓘ information warfare ⓘ network warfare ⓘ psychological warfare ⓘ satellite operations ⓘ signals intelligence ⓘ space operations ⓘ space-based reconnaissance ⓘ |
| shortName |
PLASSF
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SSF ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China ⓘ |
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 Strategic Support Force Description of subject: The People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force is a branch of China's military responsible for space, cyber, electronic, and information warfare operations.
Referenced by (70)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force
this entity surface form:
Strategic Support Force
this entity surface form:
People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force
this entity surface form:
People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force
this entity surface form:
People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force
this entity surface form:
Strategic Support Force
this entity surface form:
Strategic Support Force
this entity surface form:
People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force
this entity surface form:
Strategic Support Force
Central Military Commission General Office
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appliesToPart
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People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force
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this entity surface form:
中国人民解放军战略支援部队
Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China
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cooperatesWith
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People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force
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this entity surface form:
People's Liberation Army intelligence organs