Peng Dehuai
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Chinese Communist revolutionary
Chinese military commander
Chinese politician
People's Liberation Army general
human
Peng Dehuai was a prominent Chinese Communist military leader and defense minister best known for commanding Chinese forces during the Korean War and later being purged during the Cultural Revolution.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peng Dehuai canonical | 45 |
| Chinese General Peng Dehuai | 1 |
| General Peng Dehuai | 1 |
| Peng Dehuai commanded Chinese People's Volunteer Army forces | 1 |
| 彭德怀 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T38367 — 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: Peng Dehuai Context triple: [Korean War, commander, Peng Dehuai]
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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.
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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C.
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.
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D.
Langche Zeng
Langche Zeng is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist known for his collaborative work with Gary King on statistical methods in social science research.
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E.
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.
- 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: Peng Dehuai Target entity description: Peng Dehuai was a prominent Chinese Communist military leader and defense minister best known for commanding Chinese forces during the Korean War and later being purged 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.
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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C.
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.
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D.
Langche Zeng
Langche Zeng is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist known for his collaborative work with Gary King on statistical methods in social science research.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese Communist revolutionary
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Chinese military commander ⓘ Chinese politician ⓘ People's Liberation Army general ⓘ human ⓘ |
| alliance |
Communist Party of China leadership under Mao Zedong (early PRC period)
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linked to:
Chinese Communist Party
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| birthDate | 1898-10-24 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Xiangtan, Hunan, Qing Empire
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linked to:
Xiangtan
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| burialPlace | Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery (memorial association) ⓘ |
| causeOfPoliticalDownfall |
Criticism of Great Leap Forward at Lushan Conference
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linked to:
Lushan Conference of 1959
|
| closeColleagueOf |
Mao Zedong
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Zhou Enlai ⓘ |
| commanded |
Chinese People's Volunteer Army in Korea
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linked to:
People's Liberation Army
|
| conflict |
Chinese Civil War
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linked to:
Chinese Revolution
Korean War ⓘ Long March ⓘ Northern Expedition ⓘ Second Sino-Japanese War ⓘ
linked to:
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
|
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1974-11-29 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Beijing, China
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linked to:
Beijing
|
| education | self-educated military officer ⓘ |
| fate |
persecuted during the Cultural Revolution
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purged from leadership in 1959 ⓘ |
| honor | recognized as one of the Ten Marshals of China ⓘ |
| ideology | Communism ⓘ |
| joinedParty | Chinese Communist Party in the 1920s ⓘ |
| legacy | considered a symbol of military professionalism and integrity in PRC historiography ⓘ |
| memberOf | Chinese Communist Party ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | People's Liberation Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Marshal of the People's Republic of China ⓘ |
| movement |
Chinese Communist Revolution
ⓘ
linked to:
Chinese Revolution
|
| name | Peng Dehuai ⓘ |
| nativeName |
彭德怀
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linked to:
Peng Dehuai
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| notableEvent | Lushan Conference of 1959 ⓘ |
| notableWork | Command of Chinese forces in the Korean War ⓘ |
| opposed | Great Leap Forward policies ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Nanchang Uprising (indirectly associated with early CCP military actions)
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linked to:
Chinese Civil War (early phase)
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| positionHeld |
Chief Commander of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army
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Minister of National Defense of the People's Republic of China ⓘ Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission ⓘ Vice Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China ⓘ |
| previousOccupation | soldier in the Hunan Army ⓘ |
| rehabilitated | posthumously in the late 1970s ⓘ |
| termEnd | 1959 (as Minister of National Defense) ⓘ |
| termStart | 1954 (as Minister of National Defense) ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Peng Dehuai Description of subject: Peng Dehuai was a prominent Chinese Communist military leader and defense minister best known for commanding Chinese forces during the Korean War and later being purged during the Cultural Revolution.
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Peng Dehuai
Chinese Second Phase Offensive
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Peng Dehuai commanded Chinese People's Volunteer Army forces
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linked to: Peng Dehuai
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1940 (Hundred Regiments Offensive)
linked to: Peng Dehuai
subject linked to:
Red Army
subject linked to:
workers and peasants’ revolutionary army