Great Firewall
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The Great Firewall is China’s extensive system of internet censorship and surveillance that controls and filters online information accessible within the country.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Great Firewall canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9155758 — 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: Great Firewall Context triple: [Chinese Communist Party propaganda system, relatedConcept, Great Firewall]
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A.
Großer Wall
Großer Wall is a German-named geographic or structural feature, likely referring to a notable embankment, rampart, or wall in a German-speaking region.
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B.
Chaotianmen
Chaotianmen is a famous riverfront district and transport hub in Chongqing, China, located at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers and known for its scenic views and bustling urban landscape.
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C.
Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China is an ancient, monumental series of fortifications stretching thousands of kilometers across northern China, built and rebuilt over centuries to protect Chinese states and empires from invasions.
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D.
North China Buffer Zone
The North China Buffer Zone was a demilitarized area established by Imperial Japan in the 1930s to separate Japanese-controlled territories from Chinese Nationalist forces in northern China.
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E.
Tiananmen Gate
Tiananmen Gate is the historic ceremonial entrance to Beijing’s Forbidden City and a national symbol of China, prominently overlooking Tiananmen Square.
- 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: Great Firewall Target entity description: The Great Firewall is China’s extensive system of internet censorship and surveillance that controls and filters online information accessible within the country.
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A.
Großer Wall
Großer Wall is a German-named geographic or structural feature, likely referring to a notable embankment, rampart, or wall in a German-speaking region.
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B.
Chaotianmen
Chaotianmen is a famous riverfront district and transport hub in Chongqing, China, located at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers and known for its scenic views and bustling urban landscape.
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C.
Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China is an ancient, monumental series of fortifications stretching thousands of kilometers across northern China, built and rebuilt over centuries to protect Chinese states and empires from invasions.
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D.
North China Buffer Zone
The North China Buffer Zone was a demilitarized area established by Imperial Japan in the 1930s to separate Japanese-controlled territories from Chinese Nationalist forces in northern China.
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E.
Tiananmen Gate
Tiananmen Gate is the historic ceremonial entrance to Beijing’s Forbidden City and a national symbol of China, prominently overlooking Tiananmen Square.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
internet censorship system
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surveillance system ⓘ |
| affects | internet access in mainland China ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
GFW
NERFINISHED
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Great Firewall of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blocks |
Facebook
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Google NERFINISHED ⓘ Instagram NERFINISHED ⓘ Twitter NERFINISHED ⓘ Wikipedia (in Chinese mainland) NERFINISHED ⓘ YouTube NERFINISHED ⓘ many foreign news websites ⓘ many human-rights related websites ⓘ many privacy and circumvention tools websites ⓘ |
| circumventedBy |
Tor
NERFINISHED
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proxy servers ⓘ virtual private networks (VPNs) ⓘ |
| counterMeasures |
blocking many VPN protocols
ⓘ
detecting and disrupting circumvention tools ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| criticizedFor |
enabling mass surveillance
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limiting access to information ⓘ restricting freedom of expression ⓘ |
| doesNotApplyTo |
Hong Kong (historically, to a large extent)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Macau (historically, to a large extent) ⓘ |
| encourages | use of domestic Chinese internet services ⓘ |
| implementsPolicy |
Chinese Communist Party information control
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Chinese government censorship regulations ⓘ |
| monitors |
cross-border internet traffic
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social media content from abroad ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Chinese government
NERFINISHED
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Cyberspace Administration of China NERFINISHED ⓘ Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China NERFINISHED ⓘ Ministry of Public Security of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Golden Shield Project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
control online information
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enforce internet censorship ⓘ filter online content ⓘ monitor internet activity ⓘ |
| regulates |
access to foreign apps
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access to foreign websites ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
information control in China
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internet sovereignty (China) ⓘ |
| significantExpansion |
around 2009
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early 2000s ⓘ mid-2010s ⓘ |
| startDate | late 1990s ⓘ |
| technologyUsed |
DNS hijacking
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DNS poisoning ⓘ IP blocking ⓘ URL filtering ⓘ connection reset ⓘ deep packet inspection ⓘ keyword filtering ⓘ traffic throttling ⓘ |
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: Great Firewall Description of subject: The Great Firewall is China’s extensive system of internet censorship and surveillance that controls and filters online information accessible within the country.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.