IPC
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IPC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Indian Penal Code, the primary criminal code of India that defines offenses and their punishments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IPC canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7125291 — 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: IPC Context triple: [Indian Penal Code, shortName, IPC]
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A.
IPC
IPC is the IATA airport code for Mataveri International Airport, the main air gateway to Easter Island in Chile.
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B.
IPC
IPC is the commonly used abbreviation for the International Paralympic Committee, the global governing body of the Paralympic Movement and Paralympic Games.
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C.
IPC
IPC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, a public higher education institution in Coimbra, Portugal.
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D.
IPS
IPS is the premier all-India civil service responsible for leadership and command of police forces and law enforcement agencies across India.
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E.
IPS
IPS is the National Rail station code used to identify Ipswich railway station in Suffolk, England.
- 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: IPC Target entity description: IPC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Indian Penal Code, the primary criminal code of India that defines offenses and their punishments.
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A.
IPC
IPC is the IATA airport code for Mataveri International Airport, the main air gateway to Easter Island in Chile.
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B.
IPC
IPC is the commonly used abbreviation for the International Paralympic Committee, the global governing body of the Paralympic Movement and Paralympic Games.
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C.
IPC
IPC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, a public higher education institution in Coimbra, Portugal.
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D.
IPS
IPS is the premier all-India civil service responsible for leadership and command of police forces and law enforcement agencies across India.
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E.
IPS
IPS is the National Rail station code used to identify Ipswich railway station in Suffolk, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Act of Parliament of India
ⓘ
criminal code ⓘ |
| abbreviation | IPC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Union of India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | English criminal law (19th century) ⓘ |
| cameIntoForceOn | 1862-01-01 ⓘ |
| citation | Act No. 45 of 1860 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsPart |
General Exceptions
ⓘ
General Explanations ⓘ Of Offences against the State ⓘ Of Punishments ⓘ |
| containsSection |
Section 124A (sedition, historically)
ⓘ
Section 302 (punishment for murder) ⓘ Section 375 (definition of rape) ⓘ Section 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| dateEnacted | 1860 ⓘ |
| defines |
abetment
ⓘ
annoyance ⓘ criminal conspiracy ⓘ criminal intimidation ⓘ defamation ⓘ general exceptions ⓘ insult ⓘ offences ⓘ offences affecting the human body ⓘ offences against property ⓘ offences against public tranquility ⓘ offences against the State ⓘ offences by or relating to public servants ⓘ offences relating to coins and government stamps ⓘ offences relating to documents and property marks ⓘ offences relating to elections ⓘ offences relating to marriage ⓘ offences relating to religion ⓘ offences relating to the army, navy and air force ⓘ offences relating to weights and measures ⓘ punishments ⓘ |
| doesNotApplyToJurisdiction | Jammu and Kashmir (historically, before abrogation of Article 370) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Thomas Babington Macaulay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| draftingCommission | First Law Commission of India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
Bangladesh Penal Code
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pakistan Penal Code NERFINISHED ⓘ Sri Lankan Penal Code NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPrimaryCriminalCodeOf | India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalSystem | common law ⓘ |
| legislature | Imperial Legislative Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedByInJammuAndKashmir | Ranbir Penal Code (historically) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortTitle | Indian Penal Code NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | criminal law ⓘ |
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: IPC Description of subject: IPC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Indian Penal Code, the primary criminal code of India that defines offenses and their punishments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.