Long March
E58701
The Long March was the epic 1934–1935 strategic retreat of the Chinese Red Army that cemented Mao Zedong’s rise and became a founding myth of the Chinese Communist revolution.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Long March canonical | 45 |
| Chung Kuo / The Long March | 1 |
| The Long March | 1 |
| The Long March of the Chinese Red Army | 1 |
| 长征 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T464255 — 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.
Target entity: Long March Context triple: [Peng Dehuai, conflict, Long March]
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Central China Front
The Central China Front was a major Japanese military formation responsible for conducting operations in central China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, including the Wuhan campaign.
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Northern Expedition
The Northern Expedition was a 1926–1928 military campaign led by Chiang Kai-shek to unify China under the Nationalist government by defeating regional warlords.
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Chinese Civil War (early phase)
The early phase of the Chinese Civil War was a protracted conflict in the 1920s–1930s between the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) and the Chinese Communist Party that shaped the political and military landscape of Republican-era China before the Second World War.
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D.
The Hump airlift over the Himalayas
The Hump airlift over the Himalayas was a World War II Allied air transport operation that flew supplies from India to China across the treacherous Himalayan mountains after the Japanese cut the Burma Road.
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E.
Long Walk
Long Walk is the historic red-brick centerpiece of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, comprising a prominent row of Victorian Gothic academic buildings that define the main campus quadrangle.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Long March Target entity description: The Long March was the epic 1934–1935 strategic retreat of the Chinese Red Army that cemented Mao Zedong’s rise and became a founding myth of the Chinese Communist revolution.
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A.
Central China Front
The Central China Front was a major Japanese military formation responsible for conducting operations in central China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, including the Wuhan campaign.
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B.
Northern Expedition
The Northern Expedition was a 1926–1928 military campaign led by Chiang Kai-shek to unify China under the Nationalist government by defeating regional warlords.
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C.
Chinese Civil War (early phase)
The early phase of the Chinese Civil War was a protracted conflict in the 1920s–1930s between the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) and the Chinese Communist Party that shaped the political and military landscape of Republican-era China before the Second World War.
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D.
The Hump airlift over the Himalayas
The Hump airlift over the Himalayas was a World War II Allied air transport operation that flew supplies from India to China across the treacherous Himalayan mountains after the Japanese cut the Burma Road.
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E.
Long Walk
Long Walk is the historic red-brick centerpiece of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, comprising a prominent row of Victorian Gothic academic buildings that define the main campus quadrangle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
event in the Chinese Civil War
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historical event ⓘ military retreat ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Long March
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surface form:
The Long March of the Chinese Red Army
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| associatedIdeology | Maoism ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Yan'an period of CCP consolidation ⓘ |
| cause | encirclement campaigns by Kuomintang forces ⓘ |
| ChineseName |
Long March
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
长征
|
| ChinesePinyin | Chángzhēng ⓘ |
| consequence |
Mao Zedong
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surface form:
Mao Zedong gained de facto military leadership of the Red Army
strategic shift of Communist base to northwest China ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| crossedRegion |
grasslands of western China
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mountain ranges of southwest China ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | Zunyi Conference, January 1935 ⓘ |
| distanceTraveled | approximately 9,000 kilometers ⓘ |
| endDate | 1935 ⓘ |
| endPoint | Yan'an ⓘ |
| hardship |
extreme hunger and disease
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harsh terrain and climate ⓘ heavy casualties from combat and exhaustion ⓘ |
| ideologicalSignificance |
founding myth of the Chinese Communist revolution
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symbol of revolutionary endurance and sacrifice ⓘ |
| keyLeader |
Mao Zedong
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Peng Dehuai ⓘ Zhou Enlai ⓘ Zhu De ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| legacy | core element of modern Chinese national revolutionary identity ⓘ |
| location |
Jiangxi Province
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Shaanxi Province ⓘ |
| memorializedIn |
Chinese revolutionary films
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Chinese revolutionary literature ⓘ PRC official historiography ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Zunyi Conference ⓘ |
| numberOfForcesAtEnd | significantly reduced surviving force ⓘ |
| numberOfForcesAtStart | tens of thousands of Red Army soldiers ⓘ |
| opponent |
Kuomintang
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National Revolutionary Army ⓘ |
| participant |
Chinese Communist Party
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Chinese Red Army ⓘ |
| partOf | Chinese Civil War ⓘ |
| politicalFunction |
central narrative in CCP propaganda
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legitimization of CCP leadership ⓘ |
| result |
rise of Mao Zedong as top CCP leader
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survival of core Chinese Communist forces ⓘ |
| startDate | 1934 ⓘ |
| startPoint |
Chinese Soviet Republic
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surface form:
Jiangxi Soviet
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How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Long March Description of subject: The Long March was the epic 1934–1935 strategic retreat of the Chinese Red Army that cemented Mao Zedong’s rise and became a founding myth of the Chinese Communist revolution.
Referenced by (49)
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