Cold War

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geopolitical conflict historical period ideological conflict

The Cold War was a prolonged period of geopolitical tension and ideological rivalry between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies, spanning roughly from the late 1940s to the early 1990s.

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Label	Occurrences
Cold War canonical	4,005
Cold War era	369
Cold War period	57
Cold War Europe	13
Cold War politics	13
late Cold War	13
Cold War in Europe	11
Cold War diplomacy	7
NATO–Warsaw Pact confrontation	7
Cold War arms race	4
Cold War era United States	4
Cold War nuclear arms race	4
Kalter Krieg	4
United States–Soviet nuclear arms race	4
Cold War (early phase)	3
Cold War anti-communism	3
Cold War era Soviet Union	2
Cold War geopolitics	2
Cold War in Germany	2
Cold War international system	2
Cold War tensions	2
Cold War-era United States	2
East–West confrontation	2
Guerra Fría	2
U.S.–Soviet rivalry	2
Cold War (early period)	1
Cold War (end phase)	1
Cold War (late period space operations)	1
Cold War (political context)	1
Cold War Central Europe	1
Cold War East–West confrontation	1
Cold War East–West ideological conflict	1
Cold War United States	1
Cold War alliance	1
Cold War competition	1
Cold War context	1
Cold War divide between Eastern Bloc and Western Europe	1
Cold War dynamics	1
Cold War era Europe	1
Cold War era Middle East	1
Cold War era in East Asia	1
Cold War era in South America	1
Cold War era in Southeast Asia	1
Cold War era in the United States	1
Cold War era politics	1
Cold War frontier	1
Cold War geopolitical context	1
Cold War history of Germany	1
Cold War ideological conflict	1
Cold War in East Asia	1
Cold War in Latin America	1
Cold War in the United Kingdom	1
Cold War in the United States	1
Cold War international relations	1
Cold War late 1980s	1
Cold War military tensions	1
Cold War period (for its main notability)	1
Cold War-era Europe	1
ColdWar	1
Emergence of Cold War in Europe	1
First Cold War	1
Guerre froide	1
Kremlin leadership during the Cold War	1
NATO vs Warsaw Pact	1
Post–World War II	1
Soviet–Western nuclear arms race	1
The Cold War	1
U.S.–Soviet Cold War rivalry	1
U.S.–Soviet arms race	1
United States during Cold War	1
cold war	1
early Cold War	1
post-Cold War era	1
холодная война	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4045 — 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: Cold War
Context triple: [Marshall Plan, historicalPeriod, Cold War]

A. Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was a massive 1948–1949 Allied operation that supplied West Berlin by air during the Soviet blockade, symbolizing early Cold War tensions and Western resolve.
B. World War II
World War II was a global conflict from 1939 to 1945 involving most of the world’s nations, marked by unprecedented destruction, the Holocaust, and the use of atomic weapons, and resulting in a major reshaping of the international order.
C. Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy announced in 1947 that committed the United States to providing political, military, and economic assistance to countries threatened by communism, marking the start of the Cold War containment strategy.
D. Phoney War
The Phoney War was the early phase of World War II (September 1939–April 1940) on the Western Front, marked by a lack of major military operations despite the formal state of war between the Allies and Germany.
E. Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a massive U.S.-led economic aid program launched after World War II to rebuild and stabilize war-torn European countries and contain the spread of communism.
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: Cold War
Target entity description: The Cold War was a prolonged period of geopolitical tension and ideological rivalry between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies, spanning roughly from the late 1940s to the early 1990s.

A. Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was a massive 1948–1949 Allied operation that supplied West Berlin by air during the Soviet blockade, symbolizing early Cold War tensions and Western resolve.
B. World War II
World War II was a global conflict from 1939 to 1945 involving most of the world’s nations, marked by unprecedented destruction, the Holocaust, and the use of atomic weapons, and resulting in a major reshaping of the international order.
C. Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy announced in 1947 that committed the United States to providing political, military, and economic assistance to countries threatened by communism, marking the start of the Cold War containment strategy.
D. Phoney War
The Phoney War was the early phase of World War II (September 1939–April 1940) on the Western Front, marked by a lack of major military operations despite the formal state of war between the Allies and Germany.
E. Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a massive U.S.-led economic aid program launched after World War II to rebuild and stabilize war-torn European countries and contain the spread of communism.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (68)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geopolitical conflict ⓘ historical period ⓘ ideological conflict ⓘ
characterizedBy	espionage ⓘ mutually assured destruction ⓘ nuclear arms race ⓘ political propaganda ⓘ proxy wars ⓘ space race ⓘ
endTime	1991 ⓘ
followed	World War II ⓘ
followedBy	post–Cold War era ⓘ
hasCause	ideological rivalry between capitalism and communism ⓘ mutual distrust between United States and Soviet Union ⓘ power vacuum after World War II ⓘ
hasCulturalImpact	McCarthyism in the United States ⓘ militarization of science and technology ⓘ nuclear anxiety in popular culture ⓘ
hasEconomicAspect	arms expenditure ⓘ economic competition between capitalist and socialist systems ⓘ military–industrial complex ⓘ
hasKeyConcept	Iron Curtain ⓘ Third World ⓘ containment ⓘ domino theory ⓘ détente ⓘ non-alignment ⓘ
hasKeyDocument	Marshall Plan ⓘ NATO treaty ⓘ NSC-68 ⓘ Truman Doctrine ⓘ Warsaw Pact treaty ⓘ linked to: Warsaw Pact
hasLocation	Africa ⓘ Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ Latin America ⓘ global ⓘ
hasMainBelligerent	Soviet Union ⓘ United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
hasOutcome	collapse of the Soviet Union ⓘ emergence of United States as sole superpower ⓘ end of bipolar world order ⓘ expansion of NATO ⓘ
hasParticipant	Eastern Bloc ⓘ linked to: Eastern Bloc regimes France ⓘ NATO ⓘ People's Republic of China ⓘ linked to: China United Kingdom ⓘ Warsaw Pact ⓘ Western Bloc ⓘ linked to: NATO
hasSignificantEvent	Bay of Pigs Invasion ⓘ Berlin Airlift ⓘ Berlin Blockade ⓘ Cuban Missile Crisis ⓘ Cuban Revolution ⓘ Helsinki Accords ⓘ Hungarian Revolution of 1956 ⓘ Korean War ⓘ Prague Spring ⓘ Reagan–Gorbachev summits ⓘ SALT I ⓘ SALT II ⓘ Soviet–Afghan War ⓘ Vietnam War ⓘ construction of the Berlin Wall ⓘ dissolution of the Soviet Union ⓘ fall of the Berlin Wall ⓘ
startTime	1947 ⓘ

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Marshall Plan → historicalPeriod → Cold War ⓘ

IRE Transactions on Military Electronics → timePeriod → Cold War era ⓘ

linked to: Cold War

Truman Doctrine → historicalPeriod → Cold War ⓘ

Berlin Airlift → locatedInTimePeriod → Cold War ⓘ

Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum → focusesOn → Cold War ⓘ

Bolt Beranek and Newman → era → Cold War ⓘ

European theatre of World War II → result → Emergence of Cold War in Europe ⓘ

linked to: Cold War

Organisation for European Economic Co-operation → historicalPeriod → Cold War ⓘ

Containment → appliesToPeriod → Cold War ⓘ

subject linked to: containment

Soviet Union → historicalEra → Cold War ⓘ

The Essence of Security → mainSubject → Cold War ⓘ

The Essence of Security → timePeriodDiscussed → Cold War era ⓘ

linked to: Cold War

Dwight D. Eisenhower → era → Cold War ⓘ

Point Four Program → ideologicalContext → Cold War ⓘ

Royal Air Force → conflict → Cold War ⓘ

Inaugural Address "Ask not what your country can do for you" → theme → Cold War ⓘ

Inaugural Address "Ask not what your country can do for you" → historicalContext → Cold War ⓘ

Korean War → partOf → Cold War ⓘ

Europe → hasHistoricalEvent → Cold War ⓘ

West Germany → historicalEra → Cold War ⓘ

My Day → writtenDuring → Cold War ⓘ

Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy → setInPeriod → Cold War ⓘ

American Power and the New Mandarins → timePeriodDiscussed → Cold War ⓘ

Munitions Board → timePeriod → Cold War ⓘ

Hanford Site → timePeriodOfMajorProduction → Cold War ⓘ

subject linked to: Hanford Site, Washington

Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union → historicalEra → Cold War ⓘ

Observer Corps → operatedDuring → Cold War ⓘ

Cuban Missile Crisis → conflictDuring → Cold War ⓘ

Ich bin ein Berliner speech → politicalContext → Cold War ⓘ

"I Have a Dream" speech → historicalContext → Cold War era ⓘ

linked to: Cold War

Eastern Bloc regimes → participatedIn → Cold War ⓘ

Eastern Bloc regimes → timePeriod → Cold War era ⓘ

linked to: Cold War

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Greek Civil War → partOf → Cold War ⓘ

Berlin Blockade → partOf → Cold War ⓘ

Luftbrücke → partOf → Cold War ⓘ

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Iron Curtain → historicalPeriod → Cold War ⓘ

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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament → activeDuring → Cold War ⓘ

Russell–Einstein Manifesto → historicalContext → Cold War ⓘ

Bay of Pigs Invasion → partOf → Cold War ⓘ

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Long Telegram → relatedTo → Cold War ⓘ

Bess Truman → livedDuring → Cold War ⓘ

Mikhail Gorbachev → participatedIn → Cold War ⓘ

Strategic Computing Initiative → era → Cold War ⓘ

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