Cominform
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Cominform was a Soviet-dominated international communist organization (1947–1956) that coordinated the policies and activities of various European communist parties during the early Cold War.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cominform canonical | 14 |
| Cominform (historically aligned) | 1 |
| Cominform (until 1948) | 1 |
| Communist Information Bureau | 1 |
| World Communist Movement | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T359069 — 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: Cominform Context triple: [Polish United Workers' Party, memberOf, Cominform]
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A.
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance was a Soviet-led economic organization that coordinated trade and development among socialist countries during the Cold War.
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B.
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a Cold War-era military alliance of Eastern Bloc socialist states led by the Soviet Union, formed to counterbalance NATO.
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C.
Comintern
The Comintern, or Communist International, was a Moscow-based organization founded in 1919 to coordinate and promote worldwide communist revolution and influence during the early 20th century.
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D.
Council of Foreign Ministers
The Council of Foreign Ministers is the principal decision-making body of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, where member states’ foreign ministers meet to coordinate policies and adopt resolutions on political, economic, and social issues affecting the Muslim world.
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E.
Non-Aligned Movement
The Non-Aligned Movement is an international grouping of states that sought to remain independent of major power blocs during the Cold War and continues to promote political self-determination, sovereignty, and cooperation among developing countries.
- 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: Cominform Target entity description: Cominform was a Soviet-dominated international communist organization (1947–1956) that coordinated the policies and activities of various European communist parties during the early Cold War.
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A.
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance was a Soviet-led economic organization that coordinated trade and development among socialist countries during the Cold War.
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B.
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a Cold War-era military alliance of Eastern Bloc socialist states led by the Soviet Union, formed to counterbalance NATO.
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C.
Comintern
The Comintern, or Communist International, was a Moscow-based organization founded in 1919 to coordinate and promote worldwide communist revolution and influence during the early 20th century.
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D.
Council of Foreign Ministers
The Council of Foreign Ministers is the principal decision-making body of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, where member states’ foreign ministers meet to coordinate policies and adopt resolutions on political, economic, and social issues affecting the Muslim world.
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E.
Non-Aligned Movement
The Non-Aligned Movement is an international grouping of states that sought to remain independent of major power blocs during the Cold War and continues to promote political self-determination, sovereignty, and cooperation among developing countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cold War organization
ⓘ
international communist organization ⓘ political organization ⓘ |
| activity |
ideological coordination
ⓘ
policy guidance to member parties ⓘ propaganda ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| countryDominating | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| dissolutionReason |
de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union
ⓘ
shift in Soviet foreign policy ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1956 ⓘ |
| excludedOrganization | Communist Party of Yugoslavia ⓘ |
| expelledCountry | Yugoslavia ⓘ |
| expulsionReason | Tito–Stalin split ⓘ |
| expulsionYear | 1948 ⓘ |
| followedBy | informal Soviet bilateral control over communist parties ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Joseph Stalin
ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| fullName |
Cominform
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Communist Information Bureau
|
| headquartersLocation |
Belgrade
ⓘ
Bucharest ⓘ |
| headquartersMovedFrom | Belgrade ⓘ |
| headquartersMovedTo | Bucharest ⓘ |
| ideology |
Marxism–Leninism
ⓘ
Stalin era ⓘ
surface form:
Stalinism
|
| inception | 1947 ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
French
ⓘ
Russian ⓘ other European languages ⓘ |
| memberOrganization |
Bulgarian Communist Party
ⓘ
Czechoslovak Communist Party ⓘ
surface form:
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Communist Party of Yugoslavia ⓘ Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ Communist Party of France ⓘ
surface form:
French Communist Party
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ⓘ
surface form:
Hungarian Working People's Party
Italian Communist Party ⓘ Polish United Workers' Party ⓘ Romanian Communist Party ⓘ
surface form:
Romanian Workers' Party
|
| operatingPeriod | early Cold War ⓘ |
| opposed |
Marshall Plan
ⓘ
NATO ⓘ United States foreign policy ⓘ |
| politicalPosition | far-left ⓘ |
| precededBy | Comintern ⓘ |
| publication | For a Lasting Peace, for a People’s Democracy! ⓘ |
| purpose |
coordinate policies of European communist parties
ⓘ
oppose Western influence in Europe ⓘ propagate Soviet interpretations of Marxism–Leninism ⓘ strengthen Soviet control over foreign communist parties ⓘ |
| regionServed | Europe ⓘ |
| replaced | Communist International (Comintern) in a limited way ⓘ |
| shortName | Cominform self-link ⓘ |
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: Cominform Description of subject: Cominform was a Soviet-dominated international communist organization (1947–1956) that coordinated the policies and activities of various European communist parties during the early Cold War.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cominform (historically aligned)
this entity surface form:
Communist Information Bureau
subject surface form:
Romanian Communist Party
subject surface form:
Romanian Communist Party
this entity surface form:
World Communist Movement
subject surface form:
Bulgarian Communist Party
this entity surface form:
Cominform (until 1948)