IRB
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IRB is the acronym commonly used for the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret oath-bound organization that sought to establish an independent Irish republic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IRB canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6395035 — 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: IRB Context triple: [Irish Republican Brotherhood, alsoKnownAs, IRB]
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A.
Institutional Review Board
An Institutional Review Board is a committee that reviews and monitors research involving human participants to ensure ethical standards and participant protections are upheld.
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IRCA
IRCA is a landmark 1986 U.S. federal law that combined employer sanctions for hiring unauthorized immigrants with a one-time legalization program for certain undocumented residents.
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C.
IBR
IBR is the IATA airport code for Ibaraki Airport, a regional airport serving the Ibaraki Prefecture area of Japan.
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IRFA
IRFA is a U.S. federal law enacted in 1998 that promotes religious freedom worldwide and establishes mechanisms to monitor and respond to violations of religious liberty.
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E.
IRG
IRG is the commonly used abbreviation for the International Rice Genebank, a major global repository for conserving rice genetic diversity.
- 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: IRB Target entity description: IRB is the acronym commonly used for the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret oath-bound organization that sought to establish an independent Irish republic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Institutional Review Board
An Institutional Review Board is a committee that reviews and monitors research involving human participants to ensure ethical standards and participant protections are upheld.
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B.
IRCA
IRCA is a landmark 1986 U.S. federal law that combined employer sanctions for hiring unauthorized immigrants with a one-time legalization program for certain undocumented residents.
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C.
IBR
IBR is the IATA airport code for Ibaraki Airport, a regional airport serving the Ibaraki Prefecture area of Japan.
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D.
IRFA
IRFA is a U.S. federal law enacted in 1998 that promotes religious freedom worldwide and establishes mechanisms to monitor and respond to violations of religious liberty.
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E.
IRG
IRG is the commonly used abbreviation for the International Rice Genebank, a major global repository for conserving rice genetic diversity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish nationalist organization
ⓘ
revolutionary organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | IRB NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1924 ⓘ |
| founded | 1858 ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
James Stephens
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John O’Mahony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedIn | Dublin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| goal | establishment of an independent Irish republic ⓘ |
| hadBranch |
Clan na Gael
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fenian Brotherhood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
Irish nationalism
ⓘ
Irish republicanism ⓘ |
| influenced |
Easter Rising
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Irish War of Independence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Young Ireland movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| membershipRequirement |
commitment to establish an Irish republic by force if necessary
ⓘ
oath of secrecy ⓘ |
| movement | Irish revolutionary movement ⓘ |
| notableEvent | planning of the 1916 Easter Rising ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Bulmer Hobson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Denis McCullough NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Plunkett NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick Pearse NERFINISHED ⓘ Seán Mac Diarmada NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Clarke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Great Britain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| opposedTo | British rule in Ireland ⓘ |
| organizationType | oath-bound secret organization ⓘ |
| partOf | Irish republican movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Irish Republican Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedOrganization |
Irish Republican Army
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Irish Volunteers NERFINISHED ⓘ Sinn Féin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | predominantly Roman Catholic membership ⓘ |
| slogan | Ireland for the Irish ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Irish Republican Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedMethod |
armed struggle
ⓘ
conspiracy ⓘ insurrection ⓘ |
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: IRB Description of subject: IRB is the acronym commonly used for the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret oath-bound organization that sought to establish an independent Irish republic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.