Sepah
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Sepah is the common Persian abbreviation for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an influential military and political force in the country.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sepah canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10039121 — 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: Sepah Context triple: [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, shortName, Sepah]
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A.
Basij
The Basij is a paramilitary volunteer militia in Iran known for its role in internal security, ideological enforcement, and support of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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B.
Sharifian Army
The Sharifian Army was the military force raised by Sharif Hussein of Mecca and his sons to fight alongside the Allies against the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt in World War I.
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C.
Imperial Iranian Army
The Imperial Iranian Army was the pre-1979 national land force of Iran, serving under the Pahlavi monarchy as a central pillar of the country's military and political power.
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D.
Lashkar
Lashkar is a historic suburb of Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, India, known as a former princely capital and an important administrative and commercial center.
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E.
Azad Brigade
Azad Brigade was a military unit of the Indian National Army that fought alongside Axis forces during World War II for India’s independence from British rule.
- 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: Sepah Target entity description: Sepah is the common Persian abbreviation for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an influential military and political force in the country.
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A.
Basij
The Basij is a paramilitary volunteer militia in Iran known for its role in internal security, ideological enforcement, and support of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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B.
Sharifian Army
The Sharifian Army was the military force raised by Sharif Hussein of Mecca and his sons to fight alongside the Allies against the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt in World War I.
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C.
Imperial Iranian Army
The Imperial Iranian Army was the pre-1979 national land force of Iran, serving under the Pahlavi monarchy as a central pillar of the country's military and political power.
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D.
Lashkar
Lashkar is a historic suburb of Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, India, known as a former princely capital and an important administrative and commercial center.
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E.
Azad Brigade
Azad Brigade was a military unit of the Indian National Army that fought alongside Axis forces during World War II for India’s independence from British rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
branch of armed forces
ⓘ
military organization ⓘ political actor ⓘ |
| abbreviationLanguage | Persian ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
IRGC
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pasdaran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithGovernment | Islamic Republic of Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capitalOfOperatingCountry | Tehran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| controls | Basij paramilitary forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Iran ⓘ |
| engagesIn |
economic activities
ⓘ
intelligence activities ⓘ regional proxy operations ⓘ |
| foundingEvent | Iranian Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundingPurpose | defend the Islamic Revolution ⓘ |
| fullName | Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBranch |
Basij
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
IRGC Aerospace Force NERFINISHED ⓘ IRGC Ground Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ IRGC Intelligence Organization NERFINISHED ⓘ IRGC Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters NERFINISHED ⓘ Quds Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryCapability |
asymmetric warfare
ⓘ
ballistic missiles ⓘ unconventional warfare ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Tehran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
Islamism
ⓘ
Velayat-e Faqih NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1979 ⓘ |
| influences |
Iranian economy
ⓘ
Iranian foreign policy ⓘ Iranian politics ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Persian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalStatus | official branch of Iran’s armed forces ⓘ |
| loyalty | Supreme Leader of Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Iran
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Middle East ⓘ |
| partOf | Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryRole |
external operations
ⓘ
internal security ⓘ political influence ⓘ protect Islamic Republic system ⓘ |
| religion | Shia Islam ⓘ |
| scriptOfNativeName | Arabic script ⓘ |
| shortNativeName | سپاه NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typeOfAbbreviation | common short form in Persian ⓘ |
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: Sepah Description of subject: Sepah is the common Persian abbreviation for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an influential military and political force in the country.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.