Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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party office political office

The Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was a high-ranking leadership post responsible for directing key areas of party policy and administration within the Soviet state.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union canonical	4
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union	3
Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee	1
Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2906104 — 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: Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Context triple: [Oleg Baklanov, positionHeld, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]

A. Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was a top-ranking leadership post that effectively served as the deputy to the General Secretary and a key coordinator of party affairs in the Soviet state.
B. First Secretary of the Central Committee
The First Secretary of the Central Committee was the top leadership position in the Polish United Workers' Party, effectively serving as the country's most powerful political figure during the communist era.
C. Head of Government of the Soviet Union
The Head of Government of the Soviet Union was the chief executive authority of the Soviet state, leading the Council of People's Commissars (and later the Council of Ministers) and overseeing national policy and administration.
D. Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
The Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet was the formal head of state of the Soviet Union, holding largely ceremonial authority while real power resided in the Communist Party leadership.
E. Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR
The Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR was the highest legislative official of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, effectively serving as its head of state in the late Soviet period.
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: Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Target entity description: The Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was a high-ranking leadership post responsible for directing key areas of party policy and administration within the Soviet state.

A. Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was a top-ranking leadership post that effectively served as the deputy to the General Secretary and a key coordinator of party affairs in the Soviet state.
B. First Secretary of the Central Committee
The First Secretary of the Central Committee was the top leadership position in the Polish United Workers' Party, effectively serving as the country's most powerful political figure during the communist era.
C. Head of Government of the Soviet Union
The Head of Government of the Soviet Union was the chief executive authority of the Soviet state, leading the Council of People's Commissars (and later the Council of Ministers) and overseeing national policy and administration.
D. Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
The Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet was the formal head of state of the Soviet Union, holding largely ceremonial authority while real power resided in the Communist Party leadership.
E. Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR
The Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR was the highest legislative official of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, effectively serving as its head of state in the late Soviet period.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	party office ⓘ political office ⓘ
abolishedWith	dissolution of the Soviet Union ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	Soviet Union ⓘ
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
existedDuring	Soviet era ⓘ
follows	Secretary of the Central Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ⓘ
hasPart	department headship ⓘ sectoral supervision ⓘ
hierarchicalLevel	top leadership ⓘ
isPartOf	Communist Party of the Soviet Union leadership ⓘ linked to: Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee
languageOfWork	Russian ⓘ
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Moscow ⓘ
officeHeldBy	Alexander Yakovlev ⓘ Andrei Zhdanov ⓘ Boris Ponomarev ⓘ Dmitry Ustinov ⓘ Fyodor Kulakov ⓘ Gennady Yanaev ⓘ linked to: Gennady Yanayev Joseph Stalin ⓘ Konstantin Chernenko ⓘ Lazar Kaganovich ⓘ Leonid Brezhnev ⓘ Mikhail Gorbachev ⓘ Mikhail Suslov ⓘ Nikita Khrushchev ⓘ Yegor Ligachev ⓘ Yuri Andropov ⓘ
partOf	Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ
politicalIdeology	Marxism–Leninism ⓘ communism ⓘ
politicalSystem	one-party state ⓘ
relatedTo	General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ linked to: General Secretary of the Communist Party Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ linked to: Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee
responsibleFor	cadre policy ⓘ economic policy coordination ⓘ ideological work ⓘ implementation of party policy ⓘ organizational work of the party ⓘ oversight of party departments ⓘ party administration ⓘ state–party relations management ⓘ
seat	Kremlin ⓘ linked to: Moscow Kremlin
subordinateTo	Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ linked to: General Secretary of the Communist Party Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ
usedBy	Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Oleg Baklanov → positionHeld → Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ

Dmitry Ustinov → positionHeld → Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ

Mikhail Suslov → positionHeld → Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ

subject linked to: Suslov

Soviet leadership collective under Nikita Khrushchev → positionHeldByMember → First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ