Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces)
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Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) is Myanmar’s powerful military institution that has long dominated the country’s politics, governance, and internal security through repeated coups and authoritarian rule.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tatmadaw | 17 |
| Myanmar Armed Forces | 10 |
| Armed Forces of Myanmar | 2 |
| Myanmar military authorities | 2 |
| Burmese Armed Forces | 1 |
| Burmese armed forces | 1 |
| Myanmar military | 1 |
| Myanmar security forces | 1 |
| Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1965968 — 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: Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) Context triple: [State Law and Order Restoration Council, controlled, Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces)]
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A.
Myanmar Air Force
The Myanmar Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of Myanmar's armed forces, responsible for the country's air defense, transport, and aerial support operations.
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B.
Burma Army (British Burma)
The Burma Army (British Burma) was the colonial military force raised in British-ruled Burma, composed of locally recruited troops serving under British command.
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C.
Border Guard Police of Myanmar
The Border Guard Police of Myanmar is a paramilitary law enforcement force responsible for border security, counterinsurgency support, and maintaining state control in frontier regions.
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D.
Armed Forces of Thailand
The Armed Forces of Thailand are the military organization responsible for the defense and security of the Kingdom of Thailand, encompassing its army, navy, and air force.
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E.
Burma Corps
The Burma Corps was a British-Indian Army formation in World War II that fought in the Burma Campaign against Japanese forces under the leadership of General William Slim.
- 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: Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) Target entity description: Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) is Myanmar’s powerful military institution that has long dominated the country’s politics, governance, and internal security through repeated coups and authoritarian rule.
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A.
Myanmar Air Force
The Myanmar Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of Myanmar's armed forces, responsible for the country's air defense, transport, and aerial support operations.
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B.
Burma Army (British Burma)
The Burma Army (British Burma) was the colonial military force raised in British-ruled Burma, composed of locally recruited troops serving under British command.
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C.
Border Guard Police of Myanmar
The Border Guard Police of Myanmar is a paramilitary law enforcement force responsible for border security, counterinsurgency support, and maintaining state control in frontier regions.
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D.
Armed Forces of Thailand
The Armed Forces of Thailand are the military organization responsible for the defense and security of the Kingdom of Thailand, encompassing its army, navy, and air force.
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E.
Burma Corps
The Burma Corps was a British-Indian Army formation in World War II that fought in the Burma Campaign against Japanese forces under the leadership of General William Slim.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
armed forces
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military organization ⓘ state institution ⓘ |
| accusedOf |
crimes against humanity
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ethnic cleansing of Rohingya ⓘ human rights violations ⓘ war crimes ⓘ |
| conflictWith | ethnic armed organizations in Myanmar ⓘ |
| constitutionalPower |
25 percent of parliamentary seats reserved
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control of key security ministries ⓘ veto over constitutional amendments ⓘ |
| controls |
Myanmar security apparatus
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military-owned conglomerates in Myanmar ⓘ |
| country | Myanmar ⓘ |
| currentCommanderInChief | Min Aung Hlaing ⓘ |
| dateOfCoup |
1962-03-02
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2021-02-01 ⓘ |
| governingPeriod |
1962–2011 direct military rule
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2021–present military junta rule ⓘ |
| governs |
Tatmadaw
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surface form:
Myanmar military government
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| hasBranch |
Myanmar Air Force
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Myanmar Army ⓘ Myanmar Navy ⓘ |
| headquarters | Naypyidaw ⓘ |
| ideology |
Burmese nationalism
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military nationalism ⓘ |
| influences |
Myanmar economy
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Myanmar foreign policy ⓘ Myanmar governance ⓘ Myanmar politics ⓘ |
| languageOfCommand | Burmese ⓘ |
| leaderTitle | Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services ⓘ |
| motto | The Tatmadaw shall never betray the national cause ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Army
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surface form:
တပ်မတော်
|
| notableEvent |
1962 Burmese coup d'état
ⓘ
surface form:
1962 Burmese coup d’état
1988 military crackdown in Myanmar ⓘ 1990 election annulment in Myanmar ⓘ 2007 Saffron Revolution crackdown ⓘ 2017 Rohingya military operations in Rakhine State ⓘ 2021 Myanmar anti-coup protests ⓘ
surface form:
2021 Myanmar coup d’état
|
| officialName |
Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Myanmar Armed Forces
Tatmadaw ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Myanmar civil war
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surface form:
Myanmar civil wars
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| overthrew |
National League for Democracy
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surface form:
National League for Democracy government
State Peace and Development Council civilian transition attempts ⓘ U Nu government ⓘ |
| politicalArm | Union Solidarity and Development Party ⓘ |
| previousHeadquarters | Yangon ⓘ |
| role |
internal security
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national defense ⓘ political actor ⓘ |
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: Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) Description of subject: Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) is Myanmar’s powerful military institution that has long dominated the country’s politics, governance, and internal security through repeated coups and authoritarian rule.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Armed Forces of Myanmar
this entity surface form:
Myanmar military
this entity surface form:
Tatmadaw
this entity surface form:
Tatmadaw
this entity surface form:
Myanmar military authorities
this entity surface form:
Myanmar Armed Forces
this entity surface form:
Tatmadaw
this entity surface form:
Myanmar Armed Forces
this entity surface form:
Tatmadaw
this entity surface form:
Tatmadaw
this entity surface form:
Myanmar Armed Forces
Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces)
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officialName
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Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces)
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subject surface form:
Tatmadaw
this entity surface form:
Myanmar Armed Forces
subject surface form:
State Peace and Development Council
this entity surface form:
Myanmar Armed Forces
subject surface form:
State Peace and Development Council
this entity surface form:
Tatmadaw
this entity surface form:
Tatmadaw
this entity surface form:
Myanmar Armed Forces
this entity surface form:
Armed Forces of Myanmar
this entity surface form:
Burmese Armed Forces
this entity surface form:
Tatmadaw
this entity surface form:
Tatmadaw
this entity surface form:
Myanmar military authorities
this entity surface form:
Tatmadaw
this entity surface form:
Tatmadaw
this entity surface form:
Myanmar Armed Forces
this entity surface form:
Tatmadaw
this entity surface form:
Tatmadaw
this entity surface form:
Tatmadaw
this entity surface form:
Myanmar Armed Forces
this entity surface form:
Myanmar Armed Forces
this entity surface form:
Myanmar Armed Forces
this entity surface form:
Myanmar security forces
this entity surface form:
Burmese armed forces