coup d'état
C3550
concept
A coup d'état is a sudden, often illegal and forceful seizure of state power by a small group, typically involving elements of the military or political elite, that removes the existing government without fundamentally altering the broader constitutional or social order.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| coup d'état canonical | 65 |
| coup d’état | 16 |
| coup | 6 |
| palace coup | 4 |
| government junta | 2 |
| political coup | 2 |
| usurpation | 2 |
| Communist takeover | 1 |
| coup d’état movement | 1 |
| golpe de Estado | 1 |
| insurrección cívico-militar | 1 |
| regime change operation | 1 |
| revolutionary overthrow | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: coup d'état
Generated description
A coup d'état is a sudden, often illegal and forceful seizure of state power by a small group, typically involving elements of the military or political elite, that removes the existing government without fundamentally altering the broader constitutional or social order.