containment
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Containment was the Cold War U.S. strategy aimed at preventing the expansion of Soviet influence and communism worldwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| containment canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4047 — 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: containment Context triple: [Marshall Plan, foreignPolicyDoctrine, containment]
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A.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
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B.
Veritas
Veritas is the Latin word for "truth" and is famously used as the motto of Harvard University.
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C.
NAS
NAS is a private, nonprofit society of distinguished scholars in the United States that advises the nation on matters related to science and technology.
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D.
SHASS
SHASS is the abbreviated name commonly used for the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at academic institutions.
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E.
Mens et Manus
Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
- 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: containment Target entity description: Containment was the Cold War U.S. strategy aimed at preventing the expansion of Soviet influence and communism worldwide.
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A.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
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B.
Veritas
Veritas is the Latin word for "truth" and is famously used as the motto of Harvard University.
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C.
NAS
NAS is a private, nonprofit society of distinguished scholars in the United States that advises the nation on matters related to science and technology.
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D.
SHASS
SHASS is the abbreviated name commonly used for the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at academic institutions.
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E.
Mens et Manus
Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cold War strategy
ⓘ
United States foreign policy ⓘ foreign policy doctrine ⓘ |
| advocatedBy |
Harry S. Truman
ⓘ
linked to:
President Harry S. Truman
|
| appliesToPeriod | Cold War ⓘ |
| basedOnConcept |
balance of power
ⓘ
geopolitical containment ⓘ |
| characterizedAs | long-term strategic competition with USSR ⓘ |
| codifiedIn | NSC-68 ⓘ |
| coreComponentOf | Truman Doctrine ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticizedFor |
leading to proxy wars
ⓘ
supporting authoritarian regimes ⓘ |
| evolvedInto | détente policies ⓘ |
| field | international relations ⓘ |
| firstArticulatedIn | 1946 ⓘ |
| firstPubliclyOutlinedIn | 1947 ⓘ |
| formulatedBy | George F. Kennan ⓘ |
| geographicFocus |
East Asia
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ Middle East ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryGoal |
prevent expansion of Soviet influence
ⓘ
prevent spread of communism ⓘ |
| historicalOutcome | contributed to eventual collapse of Soviet Union ⓘ |
| implementedThrough |
Korean War intervention
ⓘ
Marshall Plan ⓘ North Atlantic Treaty Organization ⓘ
linked to:
NATO
Vietnam War intervention ⓘ covert operations by CIA ⓘ support for anti-communist regimes ⓘ |
| influencedByDocument |
Long Telegram
ⓘ
X Article ⓘ |
| opposedActor | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| opposedIdeology |
Soviet communism
ⓘ
global communist expansion ⓘ |
| promotedByInstitution |
U.S. Department of State
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Department of State
U.S. National Security Council ⓘ |
| relatedDoctrine |
brinkmanship
ⓘ
domino theory ⓘ massive retaliation ⓘ |
| reliesOnInstrument |
economic aid
ⓘ
military alliances ⓘ political pressure ⓘ propaganda ⓘ |
| supportedByPresident |
Dwight D. Eisenhower
ⓘ
John F. Kennedy ⓘ Lyndon B. Johnson ⓘ Richard Nixon ⓘ |
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: containment Description of subject: Containment was the Cold War U.S. strategy aimed at preventing the expansion of Soviet influence and communism worldwide.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.