Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung is a widely distributed collection of Mao Zedong’s political and ideological statements that became a central propaganda text in the People’s Republic of China, especially during the Cultural Revolution.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung canonical | 5 |
| Mao Zedong's saying "Women hold up half the sky" | 1 |
| Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T87466 — 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: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung Context triple: [Mao Zedong, notableWork, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung]
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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was the founding father of the People's Republic of China and the leader of the Chinese Communist Party whose political, military, and ideological leadership reshaped 20th-century China.
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B.
The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course
The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course is a heavily propagandistic official textbook published in 1938 that presented a Stalinist interpretation of Soviet and party history for ideological education.
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C.
Kim Il Sung
Kim Il Sung was the founding leader of North Korea, establishing a hereditary dictatorship and a rigidly centralized, Soviet-style communist state that he ruled from its creation in 1948 until his death in 1994.
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D.
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek was the Nationalist Chinese political and military leader who headed the Republic of China for decades and led its forces against both Japanese invasion and Chinese Communist revolutionaries.
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E.
Le Duc Tho
Le Duc Tho was a Vietnamese revolutionary, diplomat, and Politburo member best known for co-negotiating the end of the Vietnam War and uniquely declining the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973.
- 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: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung Target entity description: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung is a widely distributed collection of Mao Zedong’s political and ideological statements that became a central propaganda text in the People’s Republic of China, especially during the Cultural Revolution.
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A.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was the founding father of the People's Republic of China and the leader of the Chinese Communist Party whose political, military, and ideological leadership reshaped 20th-century China.
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B.
The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course
The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course is a heavily propagandistic official textbook published in 1938 that presented a Stalinist interpretation of Soviet and party history for ideological education.
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C.
Kim Il Sung
Kim Il Sung was the founding leader of North Korea, establishing a hereditary dictatorship and a rigidly centralized, Soviet-style communist state that he ruled from its creation in 1948 until his death in 1994.
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D.
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek was the Nationalist Chinese political and military leader who headed the Republic of China for decades and led its forces against both Japanese invasion and Chinese Communist revolutionaries.
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E.
Le Duc Tho
Le Duc Tho was a Vietnamese revolutionary, diplomat, and Politburo member best known for co-negotiating the end of the Vietnam War and uniquely declining the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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collection of quotations ⓘ political text ⓘ propaganda work ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Little Red Book
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Mao’s Little Red Book ⓘ
linked to:
Little Red Book
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| associatedWith |
Cultural Revolution
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Maoist personality cult ⓘ Red Guards ⓘ |
| author | Mao Zedong ⓘ |
| compiler | Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
People’s Republic of China
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linked to:
China
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| estimatedCopiesPrinted | over one billion ⓘ |
| firstEditionYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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political literature ⓘ |
| ideology |
Maoism
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Marxism–Leninism with Chinese characteristics ⓘ |
| language |
Arabic
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Chinese ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Korean ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Russian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Chinese Communist Party ideology
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Chinese politics ⓘ Maoism ⓘ Marxism–Leninism ⓘ class struggle ⓘ mass line ⓘ people’s war ⓘ revolutionary strategy ⓘ socialist construction ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the most printed books in history
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influence on global Maoist movements ⓘ |
| numberOfChapters | 33 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| physicalCharacteristic |
red cover
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small pocket-sized format ⓘ |
| promotedBy |
Chinese Communist Party
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People’s Liberation Army ⓘ
linked to:
People's Liberation Army
|
| publicationYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| publishedIn | Beijing ⓘ |
| publisher |
Foreign Languages Press
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People’s Liberation Army Publishing House ⓘ |
| requiredReadingFor |
Chinese students during the Cultural Revolution
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People’s Liberation Army soldiers ⓘ
linked to:
People's Liberation Army
members of the Chinese Communist Party ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered | 1920s–1960s ⓘ |
| title | Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung ⓘ |
| usedAs |
ideological training manual
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political education material ⓘ propaganda text ⓘ |
| usedDuring | Cultural Revolution ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung Description of subject: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung is a widely distributed collection of Mao Zedong’s political and ideological statements that became a central propaganda text in the People’s Republic of China, especially during the Cultural Revolution.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
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inspiredBy
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Mao Zedong's saying "Women hold up half the sky"
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linked to: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung