Chinese Red Army

E98450

military organization revolutionary army

The Chinese Red Army was the communist revolutionary military force that fought in the Chinese Civil War and later became the core of the People’s Liberation Army.

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Label	Occurrences
Chinese Red Army canonical	34
Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army	20
Chinese Communist forces	8
Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army	7
中国工农红军	3
First Red Army	2
Red Army of China	2
Central Red Army	1
Chinese Communist Party forces	1
Chinese Communist guerrillas	1
Chinese Red Army leadership	1
Chinese Red Army tradition	1
Chinese Red Army units	1
Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army units in the south	1
Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army leadership	1
Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Revolutionary Army	1
First Front Red Army	1
中国工农红军将士	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T823736 — 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: Chinese Red Army
Context triple: [Zhu De, militaryBranch, Chinese Red Army]

A. East China Field Army
The East China Field Army was a major Communist military force during the Chinese Civil War, active primarily in eastern China under commanders such as Chen Yi and Su Yu.
B. Chinese Communist Party forces
Chinese Communist Party forces were the military units loyal to the Chinese Communist Party that fought against Japanese invasion and occupation in China during the late 1930s and early 1940s.
C. People's Liberation Army
The People's Liberation Army is the unified military organization of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party, encompassing its land, sea, air, rocket, and strategic support forces.
D. National Revolutionary Army 8th Route Army
The National Revolutionary Army 8th Route Army was a major Chinese Communist military force that fought under nominal Nationalist command against Japanese invaders during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
E. Guomin Gemingjun
Guomin Gemingjun is the Chinese name for the National Revolutionary Army, the military force of the Kuomintang that played a central role in China’s Republican-era wars and the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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: Chinese Red Army
Target entity description: The Chinese Red Army was the communist revolutionary military force that fought in the Chinese Civil War and later became the core of the People’s Liberation Army.

A. East China Field Army
The East China Field Army was a major Communist military force during the Chinese Civil War, active primarily in eastern China under commanders such as Chen Yi and Su Yu.
B. Chinese Communist Party forces
Chinese Communist Party forces were the military units loyal to the Chinese Communist Party that fought against Japanese invasion and occupation in China during the late 1930s and early 1940s.
C. People's Liberation Army
The People's Liberation Army is the unified military organization of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party, encompassing its land, sea, air, rocket, and strategic support forces.
D. National Revolutionary Army 8th Route Army
The National Revolutionary Army 8th Route Army was a major Chinese Communist military force that fought under nominal Nationalist command against Japanese invaders during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
E. Guomin Gemingjun
Guomin Gemingjun is the Chinese name for the National Revolutionary Army, the military force of the Kuomintang that played a central role in China’s Republican-era wars and the Second Sino-Japanese War.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	military organization ⓘ revolutionary army ⓘ
activePeriodEnd	1937 ⓘ
activePeriodStart	1928 ⓘ
allegiance	Chinese Communist Party ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ⓘ linked to: Chinese Red Army Red Army of China ⓘ linked to: Chinese Red Army
conflict	Chinese Civil War ⓘ Encirclement Campaigns ⓘ linked to: Encirclement campaigns against Jiangxi Soviet Long March ⓘ Second Sino-Japanese War ⓘ linked to: Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
controlledTerritory	Chinese Soviet Republic ⓘ Jiangxi Soviet ⓘ
coreOf	People's Liberation Army ⓘ
country	China ⓘ
doctrine	guerrilla warfare ⓘ mobile warfare ⓘ people's war ⓘ
enemy	Kuomintang ⓘ National Revolutionary Army ⓘ
founder	Chinese Communist Party ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Ruijin ⓘ
ideology	Maoism ⓘ Marxism–Leninism ⓘ communism ⓘ
language	Chinese ⓘ
laterBecame	People's Liberation Army ⓘ
mergedInto	Eighth Route Army ⓘ linked to: National Revolutionary Army 8th Route Army New Fourth Army ⓘ
nativeName	中国工农红军 ⓘ linked to: Chinese Red Army
notableCommander	He Long ⓘ Lin Biao ⓘ Liu Bocheng ⓘ Mao Zedong ⓘ Peng Dehuai ⓘ Ye Ting ⓘ Zhou Enlai ⓘ Zhu De ⓘ
notableEvent	Autumn Harvest Uprising ⓘ Guangzhou Uprising ⓘ Long March ⓘ Nanchang Uprising ⓘ
partOf	Chinese Communist movement ⓘ linked to: Chinese Revolution
politicalWork	land reform propaganda ⓘ mass mobilization ⓘ
primaryTheater	rural China ⓘ
recruitmentBase	peasants ⓘ workers ⓘ
successor	People's Liberation Army Ground Force ⓘ
symbol	red star ⓘ
uniformColor	olive green ⓘ

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Referenced by (87)

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

Zhu De → militaryBranch → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

Zhu De → coFounded → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

Liu Bocheng → allegiance → Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Lin Biao → allegiance → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

Lin Biao → allegiance → Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Chinese Civil War (early phase) → hasParticipant → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region → militaryForce → Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

National Revolutionary Army → opponent → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

subject linked to: NRA

Central Army of the Kuomintang → opposedTo → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

Mao Zetan → militaryBranch → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

Long March → participant → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

People's Liberation Army → precededBy → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

subject linked to: PLA

Liu Shaoqi → memberOf → Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army leadership ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Teng Daiyuan → militaryBranch → Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Xin Si Jun → partOf → Chinese Red Army tradition ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Xin Si Jun → precededBy → Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army units in the south ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Chinese Soviet Republic → military → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

Chinese Red Army → alsoKnownAs → Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Chinese Red Army → alsoKnownAs → Red Army of China ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Chinese Red Army → nativeName → 中国工农红军 ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Encirclement campaigns against Jiangxi Soviet → opponent → Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Liu Bocheng → militaryAllegiance → Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ⓘ

subject linked to: “Confucius General”

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Autumn Harvest Uprising → belligerent → Chinese Communist Party forces ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Luding Bridge battle → combatant → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

Luding Bridge battle → associatedWith → First Red Army ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Battle of Xiang River → belligerent → Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Battle of Xiang River → side1 → Chinese Communist forces ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Battle of Xiang River → associatedWith → First Red Army ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Lin Yurong → partOf → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

He Long → militaryBranch → Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Nanchang Uprising Memorial sites → associatedWith → Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Ba Lu Jun → formedFrom → Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

129th Division → partOf → Chinese Communist forces ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Chinese Civil War → belligerent → Chinese Communist forces ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Hundred Regiments Offensive → belligerent → Chinese Communist forces ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Nie Rongzhen → militaryBranch → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

Mao Zetan → militaryBranch → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

subject linked to: Zetan

毛泽覃 → 军队 → 中国工农红军 ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Zunyi Conference → participant → Chinese Red Army leadership ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

People's Liberation Army Ground Force → originatedFrom → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

People's Liberation Army Ground Force → precededBy → Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Chinese National Revolutionary Army divisions → opposedBy → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

Battle of Pingxingguan → belligerent → Chinese Communist forces ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area → militaryUnit → Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Chinese Soviet Republic → militaryBranch → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

subject linked to: CSR

Flag of the Chinese Soviet Republic → associatedWith → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

Su Yu → militaryBranch → Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ⓘ

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Far East theatre of World War II prelude → hasParticipant → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

Red Army (China) → alsoKnownAs → Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ⓘ

subject linked to: Red Army

linked to: Chinese Red Army

Red Army (China) → alsoKnownAs → Chinese Red Army ⓘ

subject linked to: Red Army

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