Serve the People
E62013
Serve the People is a famous Maoist slogan emphasizing selfless service to the masses, widely associated with the ethos and political culture of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Serve the People canonical | 9 |
| Serve the People (speech) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T498650 — 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: Serve the People Context triple: [People's Liberation Army, mottoTranslation, Serve the People]
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A.
March of the Volunteers
"March of the Volunteers" is the national anthem of the People's Republic of China, a patriotic song known for its rousing call to resist oppression and strive for national liberation.
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B.
The Motherland Calls
The Motherland Calls is a colossal Soviet-era statue in Volgograd, Russia, commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad and symbolizing the Motherland’s call to defend the nation.
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C.
The Internationale
The Internationale is a historic socialist and communist anthem that has been widely adopted by leftist movements and parties around the world.
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D.
Arise, O Compatriots
"Arise, O Compatriots" is the national anthem of Nigeria, adopted in 1978 and known for its call to unity, service, and national renewal.
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E.
Red Guards
The Red Guards were radicalized youth groups in China who, inspired by Mao Zedong’s teachings, played a central and often violent role in the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s.
- 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: Serve the People Target entity description: Serve the People is a famous Maoist slogan emphasizing selfless service to the masses, widely associated with the ethos and political culture of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army.
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A.
March of the Volunteers
"March of the Volunteers" is the national anthem of the People's Republic of China, a patriotic song known for its rousing call to resist oppression and strive for national liberation.
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B.
The Motherland Calls
The Motherland Calls is a colossal Soviet-era statue in Volgograd, Russia, commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad and symbolizing the Motherland’s call to defend the nation.
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C.
The Internationale
The Internationale is a historic socialist and communist anthem that has been widely adopted by leftist movements and parties around the world.
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D.
Arise, O Compatriots
"Arise, O Compatriots" is the national anthem of Nigeria, adopted in 1978 and known for its call to unity, service, and national renewal.
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E.
Red Guards
The Red Guards were radicalized youth groups in China who, inspired by Mao Zedong’s teachings, played a central and often violent role in the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese Communist Party slogan
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Maoist slogan ⓘ People's Liberation Army slogan ⓘ political slogan ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Chinese Communist Party
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Mao Zedong ⓘ People's Liberation Army ⓘ |
| associatedWithIdeology |
Maoism
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communism ⓘ |
| coreTheme |
class struggle
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collectivism ⓘ mass line ⓘ revolutionary altruism ⓘ selfless service to the masses ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
putting the people’s interests first
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sacrifice for the revolution ⓘ serving the working people ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTranslation | Serve the People ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| hasNotableUsage |
PLA barracks mottos
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political speeches by CCP leaders ⓘ slogans on walls and banners in the PRC ⓘ |
| hasOriginalText | 为人民服务 ⓘ |
| hasPinyin | Wèi Rénmín Fúwù ⓘ |
| influenced |
CCP cadre education
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Chinese political discourse ⓘ PLA codes of conduct ⓘ |
| linkedConcept |
party-mass relationship
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people’s war ⓘ proletarian internationalism ⓘ socialist morality ⓘ |
| politicalCultureRole |
guiding principle for PLA soldiers
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guiding principle for party members ⓘ revolutionary moral code ⓘ |
| propagandaRole |
legitimizing formula for CCP rule
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mass mobilization slogan ⓘ symbol of socialist ethics ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
loyalty to the Communist Party
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loyalty to the people ⓘ revolutionary dedication ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Chinese Communist Party
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Chinese state propaganda organs ⓘ People's Liberation Army ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
Chinese revolutionary politics
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PLA ideological training ⓘ political education campaigns ⓘ |
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: Serve the People Description of subject: Serve the People is a famous Maoist slogan emphasizing selfless service to the masses, widely associated with the ethos and political culture of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
PLA
linked to: Serve the People
linked to: Serve the People
subject linked to:
People's Liberation Army (China) (Mi-171)