IRB
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IRB is the former name of World Rugby, the international governing body responsible for overseeing and regulating the sport of rugby union worldwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IRB canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11030329 — 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: [World Rugby, formerAbbreviation, IRB]
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IRB
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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B.
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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Office for Human Research Protections
The Office for Human Research Protections is a U.S. federal agency that safeguards the rights and welfare of people participating in research conducted or supported by the Department of Health and Human Services.
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D.
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee is a regulatory body that oversees and evaluates the ethical treatment and use of animals in research to ensure compliance with federal standards and institutional policies.
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E.
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.
- 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 former name of World Rugby, the international governing body responsible for overseeing and regulating the sport of rugby union worldwide.
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A.
IRB
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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B.
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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C.
Office for Human Research Protections
The Office for Human Research Protections is a U.S. federal agency that safeguards the rights and welfare of people participating in research conducted or supported by the Department of Health and Human Services.
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D.
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee is a regulatory body that oversees and evaluates the ethical treatment and use of animals in research to ensure compliance with federal standards and institutional policies.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international sports governing body
ⓘ
rugby union governing body ⓘ |
| abbreviation | IRB ⓘ |
| activity |
disciplinary regulation in international rugby union
ⓘ
ranking of international rugby union teams ⓘ rule-making for rugby union ⓘ |
| formerName |
International Rugby Board
ⓘ
linked to:
World Rugby
|
| fullName |
International Rugby Board
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linked to:
World Rugby
|
| governsSport | rugby union ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry | Ireland ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Dublin ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | member national rugby unions ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| predecessor |
International Rugby Board
ⓘ
linked to:
World Rugby
|
| renamedAs | World Rugby ⓘ |
| responsibility |
global development of rugby union
ⓘ
organizing the Rugby World Cup ⓘ overseeing rugby union worldwide ⓘ regulating rugby union worldwide ⓘ sanctioning international rugby union competitions ⓘ setting the Laws of the Game of rugby union ⓘ |
| role | international governing body for rugby union ⓘ |
| scope | worldwide ⓘ |
| sport | rugby union ⓘ |
| successor | World Rugby ⓘ |
| type | non-governmental organization ⓘ |
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 former name of World Rugby, the international governing body responsible for overseeing and regulating the sport of rugby union worldwide.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
WR