DF Malan Airport
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DF Malan Airport was the former name of Cape Town’s main international airport during the apartheid era in South Africa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| DF Malan Airport canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5940098 — 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: DF Malan Airport Context triple: [Cape Town International Airport, formerName, DF Malan Airport]
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A.
Jan Smuts International Airport
Jan Smuts International Airport was the former name of Johannesburg’s main international airport, now known as O. R. Tambo International Airport, and served as South Africa’s primary aviation hub during much of the 20th century.
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B.
Pietermaritzburg Airport
Pietermaritzburg Airport is a regional airport in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, providing primarily domestic passenger services.
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C.
Bram Fischer International Airport
Bram Fischer International Airport is the primary airport serving Bloemfontein and the surrounding Free State region in South Africa.
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D.
Nelson Mandela International Airport
Nelson Mandela International Airport is the main international gateway serving Praia and the island of Santiago in Cape Verde.
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E.
Ladysmith Airport
Ladysmith Airport is a small regional airport serving the town of Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, primarily handling general aviation and limited commercial flights.
- 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: DF Malan Airport Target entity description: DF Malan Airport was the former name of Cape Town’s main international airport during the apartheid era in South Africa.
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A.
Jan Smuts International Airport
Jan Smuts International Airport was the former name of Johannesburg’s main international airport, now known as O. R. Tambo International Airport, and served as South Africa’s primary aviation hub during much of the 20th century.
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B.
Pietermaritzburg Airport
Pietermaritzburg Airport is a regional airport in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, providing primarily domestic passenger services.
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C.
Bram Fischer International Airport
Bram Fischer International Airport is the primary airport serving Bloemfontein and the surrounding Free State region in South Africa.
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D.
Nelson Mandela International Airport
Nelson Mandela International Airport is the main international gateway serving Praia and the island of Santiago in Cape Verde.
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E.
Ladysmith Airport
Ladysmith Airport is a small regional airport serving the town of Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, primarily handling general aviation and limited commercial flights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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: DF Malan Airport Description of subject: DF Malan Airport was the former name of Cape Town’s main international airport during the apartheid era in South Africa.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.