Matla Power Station
E685733
Matla Power Station is a large coal-fired power plant in South Africa that is a major contributor to the country’s electricity generation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matla Power Station canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7718604 — 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: Matla Power Station Context triple: [Emalahleni, hasPowerStationNearby, Matla Power Station]
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A.
Kriel Power Station
Kriel Power Station is a large coal-fired power plant in South Africa that forms part of the country’s major electricity-generating infrastructure.
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B.
Atiamuri Power Station
Atiamuri Power Station is a hydroelectric power station in New Zealand that generates electricity from the flow of the Waikato River.
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C.
Uri I Power Station
Uri I Power Station is a major hydroelectric power facility in Jammu and Kashmir, India, utilizing water from the Jhelum River to generate electricity.
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D.
Kafue Gorge Upper Power Station
Kafue Gorge Upper Power Station is a major hydroelectric power facility in Zambia that generates electricity from the flow of the Kafue River.
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E.
Kafue Gorge Lower Power Station
Kafue Gorge Lower Power Station is a major hydroelectric power facility in Zambia that generates electricity from the flow of the Kafue River.
- 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: Matla Power Station Target entity description: Matla Power Station is a large coal-fired power plant in South Africa that is a major contributor to the country’s electricity generation.
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A.
Kriel Power Station
Kriel Power Station is a large coal-fired power plant in South Africa that forms part of the country’s major electricity-generating infrastructure.
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B.
Atiamuri Power Station
Atiamuri Power Station is a hydroelectric power station in New Zealand that generates electricity from the flow of the Waikato River.
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C.
Uri I Power Station
Uri I Power Station is a major hydroelectric power facility in Jammu and Kashmir, India, utilizing water from the Jhelum River to generate electricity.
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D.
Kafue Gorge Upper Power Station
Kafue Gorge Upper Power Station is a major hydroelectric power facility in Zambia that generates electricity from the flow of the Kafue River.
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E.
Kafue Gorge Lower Power Station
Kafue Gorge Lower Power Station is a major hydroelectric power facility in Zambia that generates electricity from the flow of the Kafue River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | coal-fired power station ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1983 ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Eskom transmission network
ⓘ
linked to:
Eskom Transmission
|
| constructionStartDate | 1974 ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| coolingSource | wet-cooling towers ⓘ |
| coolingTechnology | natural-draft cooling towers ⓘ |
| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| emits |
carbon dioxide
ⓘ
nitrogen oxides ⓘ particulate matter ⓘ sulfur dioxide ⓘ |
| energySource | fossil fuel ⓘ |
| fuelSourceRegion | nearby coal mines in Mpumalanga ⓘ |
| fuelType | bituminous coal ⓘ |
| gridConnection | South African national grid ⓘ |
| gridContribution | base-load electricity for South Africa ⓘ |
| gridRole | base-load power station ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalImpact |
air pollution
ⓘ
greenhouse gas emissions ⓘ |
| hasImpactOn |
local air quality
ⓘ
regional power reliability ⓘ |
| hasRisk |
coal supply disruptions
ⓘ
equipment failure ⓘ regulatory compliance issues ⓘ |
| hasTechnology | pulverized coal combustion ⓘ |
| industry | electricity generation industry ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Emalahleni Local Municipality
ⓘ
Highveld region ⓘ
linked to:
Highveld
Mpumalanga ⓘ South African Highveld ⓘ
linked to:
Highveld
|
| locatedNear |
Duvha Power Station
ⓘ
Kriel Power Station ⓘ Kusile Power Station ⓘ |
| numberOfUnits | 6 ⓘ |
| operator | Eskom ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Government of South Africa ⓘ |
| owner | Eskom ⓘ |
| partOf | Eskom coal power fleet ⓘ |
| primaryFuel | coal ⓘ |
| purpose | electricity generation ⓘ |
| region |
Highveld coalfields
ⓘ
linked to:
South African coalfields
|
| regulator | National Energy Regulator of South Africa ⓘ |
| sector | electric power industry ⓘ |
| significance | major contributor to South Africa’s electricity supply ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| unitType | coal-fired steam turbine unit ⓘ |
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: Matla Power Station Description of subject: Matla Power Station is a large coal-fired power plant in South Africa that is a major contributor to the country’s electricity generation.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.