O. R. Tambo International Airport
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O. R. Tambo International Airport is South Africa’s largest and busiest airport, serving as the primary international gateway to Johannesburg and the country.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T418248 — 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: O. R. Tambo International Airport Context triple: [Gauteng, containsMajorAirport, O. R. Tambo International Airport]
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A.
Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport
Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport is the main international gateway to Zimbabwe, serving as the primary airport for the capital city, Harare.
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Johannesburg, South Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa is the country’s largest city and economic hub, known for its role in the gold mining industry and as a major urban center in Gauteng province.
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C.
Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein is a major South African city known as the seat of the country’s highest courts and one of its three national capitals.
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D.
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is Kenya’s largest and busiest airport, serving as the main international gateway to the country and a major hub for East Africa.
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E.
Pretoria, South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa is one of the country’s three capital cities, serving as the administrative capital and a major center for government, education, and culture.
- 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: O. R. Tambo International Airport Target entity description: O. R. Tambo International Airport is South Africa’s largest and busiest airport, serving as the primary international gateway to Johannesburg and the country.
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A.
Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport
Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport is the main international gateway to Zimbabwe, serving as the primary airport for the capital city, Harare.
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B.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa is the country’s largest city and economic hub, known for its role in the gold mining industry and as a major urban center in Gauteng province.
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C.
Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein is a major South African city known as the seat of the country’s highest courts and one of its three national capitals.
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D.
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is Kenya’s largest and busiest airport, serving as the main international gateway to the country and a major hub for East Africa.
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E.
Pretoria, South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa is one of the country’s three capital cities, serving as the administrative capital and a major center for government, education, and culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: O. R. Tambo International Airport Description of subject: O. R. Tambo International Airport is South Africa’s largest and busiest airport, serving as the primary international gateway to Johannesburg and the country.
Referenced by (61)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Johannesburg
this entity surface form:
Airways Park, O. R. Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg
O. R. Tambo International Airport
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previousName
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O. R. Tambo International Airport
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Johannesburg International Airport
this entity surface form:
OR Tambo International Airport
this entity surface form:
OR Tambo International Airport
this entity surface form:
OR Tambo International Airport
this entity surface form:
OR Tambo International Airport
this entity surface form:
Jan Smuts Airport (former name of Johannesburg International Airport)
this entity surface form:
Johannesburg O. R. Tambo International Airport
subject surface form:
South African Airways
subject surface form:
R21 freeway
this entity surface form:
OR Tambo International Airport
subject surface form:
R21 freeway
this entity surface form:
OR Tambo International Airport
this entity surface form:
OR Tambo International Airport Gautrain station
this entity surface form:
OR Tambo International Airport
subject surface form:
SuperSport Park
this entity surface form:
Johannesburg International Airport
Airports Company South Africa
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primaryInternationalGatewayOperated
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O. R. Tambo International Airport
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this entity surface form:
O. R. Tambo International Airport station
this entity surface form:
Johannesburg International Airport
this entity surface form:
Johannesburg International Airport