N4 national road
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The N4 national road is a major highway in South Africa that forms part of the Maputo Corridor, linking the interior economic hubs to the Mozambican port city of Maputo and passing through regions such as Nkomazi.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| N4 national road canonical | 5 |
| N4 national route | 2 |
| N4 national primary road | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6717620 — 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: N4 national road Context triple: [Nkomazi region, roadConnection, N4 national road]
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A.
N1 national road
The N1 national road is a major South African highway forming part of the primary north–south route connecting Cape Town, Johannesburg, and the Zimbabwean border.
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B.
N2 national road
The N2 national road is a major South African highway running along the coast and connecting key cities and regions, including the Eastern Cape.
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C.
N9 national road
The N9 national road is a major route in South Africa’s numbered road network, connecting key towns and regions in the country’s interior.
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D.
N11 national road
The N11 national road is a major South African route running roughly north–south, linking KwaZulu-Natal with inland provinces and facilitating regional trade and travel.
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E.
N10 national road
The N10 national road is a major South African highway that runs inland between the Eastern Cape and Northern Cape, linking coastal cities like Port Elizabeth with the interior.
- 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: N4 national road Target entity description: The N4 national road is a major highway in South Africa that forms part of the Maputo Corridor, linking the interior economic hubs to the Mozambican port city of Maputo and passing through regions such as Nkomazi.
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A.
N1 national road
The N1 national road is a major South African highway forming part of the primary north–south route connecting Cape Town, Johannesburg, and the Zimbabwean border.
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B.
N2 national road
The N2 national road is a major South African highway running along the coast and connecting key cities and regions, including the Eastern Cape.
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C.
N9 national road
The N9 national road is a major route in South Africa’s numbered road network, connecting key towns and regions in the country’s interior.
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D.
N11 national road
The N11 national road is a major South African route running roughly north–south, linking KwaZulu-Natal with inland provinces and facilitating regional trade and travel.
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E.
N10 national road
The N10 national road is a major South African highway that runs inland between the Eastern Cape and Northern Cape, linking coastal cities like Port Elizabeth with the interior.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
highway
ⓘ
national road ⓘ |
| alsoManagedBy | Trans African Concessions ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Maputo
ⓘ
Mozambique ⓘ interior economic hubs of South Africa ⓘ |
| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| easternTerminus |
Lebombo Border Post
ⓘ
linked to:
Lebombo border post
Mozambique border ⓘ |
| formsPartOf | Maputo Corridor ⓘ |
| hasDirection | east–west ⓘ |
| hasTollSections | true ⓘ |
| linkedPort | Port of Maputo ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Africa ⓘ |
| managedBy | South African National Roads Agency Limited ⓘ |
| partOf | South African National Route network ⓘ |
| partOfCorridor | Trans-Kalahari Corridor ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Gauteng province
ⓘ
linked to:
Gauteng
Mpumalanga province ⓘ
linked to:
Mpumalanga
Nkomazi ⓘ North West province ⓘ
linked to:
North West Province
|
| regionServed |
Gauteng
ⓘ
Mpumalanga ⓘ North West ⓘ |
| roadNumber | N4 ⓘ |
| roadType | National Route ⓘ |
| role |
international trade route
ⓘ
major freight corridor ⓘ |
| supports | regional economic integration ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | near Lobatse border with Botswana ⓘ |
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: N4 national road Description of subject: The N4 national road is a major highway in South Africa that forms part of the Maputo Corridor, linking the interior economic hubs to the Mozambican port city of Maputo and passing through regions such as Nkomazi.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: N4 national road
linked to: N4 national road