SK
E546565
UNESCO World Heritage Site
archaeological site code
cave site
paleoanthropological site
paleoanthropologist
paleontologist
SK is the archaeological site code for Swartkrans, a significant South African paleoanthropological cave site known for its early hominin fossils and stone tools.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SK canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5794874 — 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: SK Context triple: [Swartkrans, hasSiteCode, SK]
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A.
SK
SK is the postcode area covering Stockport and surrounding parts of Greater Manchester and nearby counties in North West England.
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B.
SK
SK is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for vehicles registered in Skopje, the capital city of North Macedonia.
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C.
SK
SK is the IATA airline designator used worldwide to identify Scandinavian Airlines on tickets, timetables, and flight information systems.
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D.
SK
SK is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Slovakia, a landlocked Central European nation known for its mountains, castles, and membership in the European Union.
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E.
SK
SK is the official vehicle registration code assigned to the Indian state of Sikkim.
- 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: SK Target entity description: SK is the archaeological site code for Swartkrans, a significant South African paleoanthropological cave site known for its early hominin fossils and stone tools.
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A.
SK
SK is the postcode area covering Stockport and surrounding parts of Greater Manchester and nearby counties in North West England.
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B.
SK
SK is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for vehicles registered in Skopje, the capital city of North Macedonia.
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C.
SK
SK is the IATA airline designator used worldwide to identify Scandinavian Airlines on tickets, timetables, and flight information systems.
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D.
SK
SK is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Slovakia, a landlocked Central European nation known for its mountains, castles, and membership in the European Union.
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E.
SK
SK is the official vehicle registration code assigned to the Indian state of Sikkim.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
UNESCO World Heritage Site
ⓘ
archaeological site code ⓘ cave site ⓘ paleoanthropological site ⓘ paleoanthropologist ⓘ paleontologist ⓘ |
| associatedWithTaxon |
Homo erectus
ⓘ
Paranthropus robustus ⓘ early Homo ⓘ |
| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Robert Broom ⓘ |
| environment | karstic limestone cave system ⓘ |
| excavatedBy |
C. K. Brain
ⓘ
Robert Broom ⓘ |
| geologicalAge |
Pleistocene
ⓘ
linked to:
Pleistocene epoch
|
| hasArchaeologicalCode | SK ⓘ |
| hasEvidenceOf |
burnt bone assemblages
ⓘ
butchery marks on animal bones ⓘ carnivore–hominin interactions ⓘ |
| hasFind |
Paranthropus robustus cranial remains
ⓘ
burnt bones ⓘ early Homo cranial remains ⓘ faunal remains ⓘ stone artefacts ⓘ |
| hasSiteCodePrefix | SK ⓘ |
| hasStratifiedDeposits |
Member 1
ⓘ
Member 2 ⓘ Member 3 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early hominin fossils
ⓘ
evidence of controlled use of fire ⓘ stone tools ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Gauteng
ⓘ
South Africa ⓘ |
| near |
Kromdraai
ⓘ
linked to:
Sterkfontein
Sterkfontein ⓘ |
| partOf | Cradle of Humankind ⓘ |
| refersTo | Swartkrans ⓘ |
| significance |
evidence for early fire use by hominins
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important for study of robust australopiths ⓘ key site for understanding early hominin behavior in southern Africa ⓘ |
| toolIndustry |
Acheulean
ⓘ
Oldowan ⓘ
linked to:
Oldowan stone tools
|
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: SK Description of subject: SK is the archaeological site code for Swartkrans, a significant South African paleoanthropological cave site known for its early hominin fossils and stone tools.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
SK