Cold War

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geopolitical conflict historical period ideological conflict

The Cold War was a prolonged period of geopolitical tension and ideological rivalry between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies, spanning roughly from the late 1940s to the early 1990s.

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All labels observed (53)

Label	Occurrences
Cold War canonical	3,201
Cold War era	159
Cold War period	21
Cold War Europe	6
Cold War diplomacy	6
late Cold War	6
Cold War in Europe	5
Cold War politics	5
Cold War arms race	4
United States–Soviet nuclear arms race	4
Cold War (early phase)	3
Cold War nuclear arms race	3
NATO–Warsaw Pact confrontation	3
Cold War era Soviet Union	2
Cold War era United States	2
Guerra Fría	2
Cold War (end phase)	1
Cold War (late period space operations)	1
Cold War (political context)	1
Cold War East–West ideological conflict	1
Cold War United States	1
Cold War anti-communism	1
Cold War competition	1
Cold War context	1
Cold War divide between Eastern Bloc and Western Europe	1
Cold War era Europe	1
Cold War era in East Asia	1
Cold War era in South America	1
Cold War frontier	1
Cold War geopolitical context	1
Cold War history of Germany	1
Cold War in East Asia	1
Cold War in Germany	1
Cold War in Latin America	1
Cold War in the United Kingdom	1
Cold War international system	1
Cold War period (for its main notability)	1
Cold War tensions	1
Cold War-era Europe	1
Cold War-era United States	1
Emergence of Cold War in Europe	1
First Cold War	1
Kalter Krieg	1
NATO vs Warsaw Pact	1
Post–World War II	1
Soviet–Western nuclear arms race	1
The Cold War	1
U.S.–Soviet Cold War rivalry	1
U.S.–Soviet arms race	1
U.S.–Soviet rivalry	1
United States during Cold War	1
early Cold War	1
post-Cold War era	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4045 — 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: Cold War
Context triple: [Marshall Plan, historicalPeriod, Cold War]

A. Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was a massive 1948–1949 Allied operation that supplied West Berlin by air during the Soviet blockade, symbolizing early Cold War tensions and Western resolve.
B. World War II
World War II was a global conflict from 1939 to 1945 involving most of the world’s nations, marked by unprecedented destruction, the Holocaust, and the use of atomic weapons, and resulting in a major reshaping of the international order.
C. Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy announced in 1947 that committed the United States to providing political, military, and economic assistance to countries threatened by communism, marking the start of the Cold War containment strategy.
D. Phoney War
The Phoney War was the early phase of World War II (September 1939–April 1940) on the Western Front, marked by a lack of major military operations despite the formal state of war between the Allies and Germany.
E. Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a massive U.S.-led economic aid program launched after World War II to rebuild and stabilize war-torn European countries and contain the spread of communism.
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: Cold War
Target entity description: The Cold War was a prolonged period of geopolitical tension and ideological rivalry between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies, spanning roughly from the late 1940s to the early 1990s.

A. Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was a massive 1948–1949 Allied operation that supplied West Berlin by air during the Soviet blockade, symbolizing early Cold War tensions and Western resolve.
B. World War II
World War II was a global conflict from 1939 to 1945 involving most of the world’s nations, marked by unprecedented destruction, the Holocaust, and the use of atomic weapons, and resulting in a major reshaping of the international order.
C. Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy announced in 1947 that committed the United States to providing political, military, and economic assistance to countries threatened by communism, marking the start of the Cold War containment strategy.
D. Phoney War
The Phoney War was the early phase of World War II (September 1939–April 1940) on the Western Front, marked by a lack of major military operations despite the formal state of war between the Allies and Germany.
E. Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a massive U.S.-led economic aid program launched after World War II to rebuild and stabilize war-torn European countries and contain the spread of communism.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (68)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geopolitical conflict ⓘ historical period ⓘ ideological conflict ⓘ
characterizedBy	espionage ⓘ mutually assured destruction ⓘ nuclear arms race ⓘ political propaganda ⓘ proxy wars ⓘ space race ⓘ
endTime	1991 ⓘ
followed	World War II ⓘ
followedBy	post–Cold War era ⓘ
hasCause	ideological rivalry between capitalism and communism ⓘ mutual distrust between United States and Soviet Union ⓘ power vacuum after World War II ⓘ
hasCulturalImpact	McCarthyism in the United States ⓘ militarization of science and technology ⓘ nuclear anxiety in popular culture ⓘ
hasEconomicAspect	arms expenditure ⓘ economic competition between capitalist and socialist systems ⓘ military–industrial complex ⓘ
hasKeyConcept	Iron Curtain ⓘ Third World ⓘ containment ⓘ domino theory ⓘ détente ⓘ non-alignment ⓘ
hasKeyDocument	Marshall Plan ⓘ NATO treaty ⓘ NSC-68 ⓘ Truman Doctrine ⓘ Warsaw Pact ⓘ surface form: Warsaw Pact treaty
hasLocation	Africa ⓘ Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ Latin America ⓘ global ⓘ
hasMainBelligerent	Soviet Union ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
hasOutcome	collapse of the Soviet Union ⓘ emergence of United States as sole superpower ⓘ end of bipolar world order ⓘ expansion of NATO ⓘ
hasParticipant	Eastern Bloc regimes ⓘ surface form: Eastern Bloc France ⓘ NATO ⓘ China ⓘ surface form: People's Republic of China United Kingdom ⓘ Warsaw Pact ⓘ NATO ⓘ surface form: Western Bloc
hasSignificantEvent	Bay of Pigs Invasion ⓘ Berlin Airlift ⓘ Berlin Blockade ⓘ Cuban Missile Crisis ⓘ Cuban Revolution ⓘ Helsinki Accords ⓘ Hungarian Revolution of 1956 ⓘ Korean War ⓘ Prague Spring ⓘ Reagan–Gorbachev summits ⓘ SALT I ⓘ SALT II ⓘ Soviet–Afghan War ⓘ Vietnam War ⓘ construction of the Berlin Wall ⓘ dissolution of the Soviet Union ⓘ fall of the Berlin Wall ⓘ
startTime	1947 ⓘ

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Education in a Divided World → mainSubject → Cold War ⓘ

Education in a Divided World → timePeriodAddressed → Cold War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cold War era

United States High Commissioner for Germany → locatedInTimePeriod → Cold War ⓘ

Marshal of the Soviet Union → usedDuringConflict → Cold War ⓘ

The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms → mainSubject → Cold War ⓘ

The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames → timePeriodCovered → Cold War ⓘ

Atomic Blonde → settingTime → Cold War ⓘ

Lorraine Broughton in Atomic Blonde → timePeriod → Cold War ⓘ

subject surface form: Lorraine Broughton

Modified Brussels Treaty → historicalPeriod → Cold War ⓘ

83rd United States Congress → historicalEra → Cold War ⓘ

83rd United States Congress → meetsDuringConflict → Cold War ⓘ

Nixon shock → historicalContext → Cold War ⓘ

Flag of the Russian SFSR → usedDuring → Cold War ⓘ

State Anthem of the Soviet Union → periodOfUse → Cold War ⓘ

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis → mainSubject → Cold War ⓘ

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis → historicalPeriodCovered → Cold War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cold War era

Koksijde Air Base → usedDuring → Cold War ⓘ

Smiley’s People (novel) → settingPeriod → Cold War ⓘ

subject surface form: Smiley’s People

Nimitz-class aircraft carrier → usedIn → Cold War ⓘ

physicist Norris Bradbury → era → Cold War ⓘ

subject surface form: Norris Bradbury

Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 → historicalContext → Cold War ⓘ

Philip M. Kaiser → activeInPeriod → Cold War ⓘ

Foreign relations of the United Kingdom (historical) → significantEvent → Cold War ⓘ

Departamentul Securității Statului → historicalPeriod → Cold War ⓘ

USS Nautilus → serviceEntryEra → Cold War ⓘ

Nationale Volksarmee Landstreitkräfte → conflict → Cold War ⓘ

Ministry of Defense of the USSR → timePeriod → Cold War ⓘ

Gagarin Air Force Academy → era → Cold War ⓘ

Type 42 destroyer → usedInConflict → Cold War ⓘ

Mare Island Naval Shipyard → era → Cold War ⓘ

Georgy Malenkov → era → Cold War ⓘ

Eastern Bloc → timePeriod → Cold War ⓘ

Battle of Santa Clara → historicalPeriod → Cold War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cold War era

Memoirs: 1925–1950 → nonfictionSubject → Cold War ⓘ

United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union → associatedWith → Cold War ⓘ

Angolan Civil War → partOf → Cold War ⓘ

Space Race → partOf → Cold War ⓘ

Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs → mainSubject → Cold War ⓘ

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (novel) → setInPeriod → Cold War ⓘ

subject surface form: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Military history of the Territorial Army → includesEvent → Cold War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cold War period

United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia → associatedWith → Cold War ⓘ

1980 Summer Olympics → context → Cold War ⓘ

United States Ambassador to West Germany → locatedInTimePeriod → Cold War ⓘ

Lockheed P-2 Neptune → era → Cold War ⓘ

Supermarine Swift → usedIn → Cold War ⓘ

The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming → subject → Cold War ⓘ

North American F-86 Sabre → era → Cold War ⓘ

LWP → existedDuring → Cold War ⓘ

Internal Military Service → timePeriod → Cold War ⓘ

Border Protection Troops → historicalPeriod → Cold War ⓘ

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