Radio Peking
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Radio Peking was the former name of China’s international broadcasting service, which transmitted news and propaganda from the People’s Republic of China to audiences around the world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Radio Peking canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9155694 — 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: Radio Peking Context triple: [China Radio International, formerName, Radio Peking]
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A.
Shanghai Lil
"Shanghai Lil" is a musical number from the 1933 Warner Bros. film *Footlight Parade*, featuring James Cagney in a memorable song-and-dance performance.
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B.
Beijing Coma
Beijing Coma is a novel by Chinese writer Ma Jian that intertwines personal memory and political history through the story of a Tiananmen Square protester who lies in a coma while narrating events from his past.
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C.
The Red Record
The Red Record is Ida B. Wells’s groundbreaking 1895 pamphlet that systematically documents and analyzes lynching in the United States to expose its racial and political motives.
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D.
The Spirit of Radio
"The Spirit of Radio" is a 1980 progressive rock song by Rush, celebrated for its intricate musicianship, shifting time signatures, and commentary on the commercialization of radio.
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E.
The Big Broadcast of 1937
The Big Broadcast of 1937 is a 1936 musical comedy film featuring Gracie Allen and other popular radio and vaudeville stars in a revue-style story built around a struggling radio station.
- 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: Radio Peking Target entity description: Radio Peking was the former name of China’s international broadcasting service, which transmitted news and propaganda from the People’s Republic of China to audiences around the world.
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A.
Shanghai Lil
"Shanghai Lil" is a musical number from the 1933 Warner Bros. film *Footlight Parade*, featuring James Cagney in a memorable song-and-dance performance.
-
B.
Beijing Coma
Beijing Coma is a novel by Chinese writer Ma Jian that intertwines personal memory and political history through the story of a Tiananmen Square protester who lies in a coma while narrating events from his past.
-
C.
The Red Record
The Red Record is Ida B. Wells’s groundbreaking 1895 pamphlet that systematically documents and analyzes lynching in the United States to expose its racial and political motives.
-
D.
The Spirit of Radio
"The Spirit of Radio" is a 1980 progressive rock song by Rush, celebrated for its intricate musicianship, shifting time signatures, and commentary on the commercialization of radio.
-
E.
The Big Broadcast of 1937
The Big Broadcast of 1937 is a 1936 musical comedy film featuring Gracie Allen and other popular radio and vaudeville stars in a revue-style story built around a struggling radio station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international radio broadcaster
ⓘ
state-run radio station ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Beijing Foreign Language Service
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peking Radio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastArea |
international
ⓘ
worldwide ⓘ |
| broadcastContent |
commentary
ⓘ
cultural programs ⓘ news ⓘ propaganda ⓘ |
| broadcastFrom | Beijing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastMedium |
medium wave radio
ⓘ
shortwave radio ⓘ |
| broadcastTechnology | high-power shortwave transmitters ⓘ |
| country |
China
ⓘ
surface form:
People's Republic of China
|
| dissolvedOrAbolished | 1993 ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | China Radio International NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Beijing ⓘ |
| ideologyPromoted |
Chinese communism
ⓘ
Maoism ⓘ |
| inception | 1950 ⓘ |
| language |
Arabic
ⓘ
Chinese ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ Russian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ other foreign languages ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Beijing
ⓘ
China ⓘ |
| notableFor | strongly ideological broadcasts during the Cultural Revolution ⓘ |
| notablePeriod | Cultural Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chinese government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownership | state-owned ⓘ |
| partOf |
Chinese external propaganda apparatus
ⓘ
Chinese state media system ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Communist Party of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryCityServed | international rather than domestic audience ⓘ |
| regulatesOrSupervises | was supervised by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television of China ⓘ |
| replacedBy | China Radio International NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | early 1950s ⓘ |
| successor | China Radio International NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
foreign countries
ⓘ
overseas listeners ⓘ |
| usedFor |
foreign policy messaging
ⓘ
international propaganda ⓘ public diplomacy ⓘ |
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: Radio Peking Description of subject: Radio Peking was the former name of China’s international broadcasting service, which transmitted news and propaganda from the People’s Republic of China to audiences around the world.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.