ZA-NW
E914704
ZA-NW is the ISO 3166-2 code designating South Africa’s North West province.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ZA-NW canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11258786 — 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: ZA-NW Context triple: [Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District, ISO3166-2, ZA-NW]
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A.
ZNA
ZNA is the IATA airport code for Nanaimo Harbour Water Airport, a seaplane facility serving Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.
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B.
ZWN
ZWN is a former currency code used to denote an early version of the Zimbabwean dollar in international financial and foreign exchange contexts.
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C.
ZA
ZA is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for South Africa.
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D.
ZW
ZW is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Zimbabwe, a landlocked country in southern Africa.
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E.
ZA-NC
ZA-NC is the ISO 3166-2 code that designates South Africa’s Northern Cape province.
- 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: ZA-NW Target entity description: ZA-NW is the ISO 3166-2 code designating South Africa’s North West province.
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A.
ZNA
ZNA is the IATA airport code for Nanaimo Harbour Water Airport, a seaplane facility serving Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.
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B.
ZWN
ZWN is a former currency code used to denote an early version of the Zimbabwean dollar in international financial and foreign exchange contexts.
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C.
ZA
ZA is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for South Africa.
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D.
ZW
ZW is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Zimbabwe, a landlocked country in southern Africa.
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E.
ZA-NC
ZA-NC is the ISO 3166-2 code that designates South Africa’s Northern Cape province.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ISO 3166-2 code
ⓘ
geocode ⓘ |
| alpha2CountryCode | ZA ⓘ |
| assignedBy |
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
ⓘ
International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| codeElement | NW ⓘ |
| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| hasParentSubdivisionSet | provinces of South Africa ⓘ |
| language | en ⓘ |
| partOfStandard | ISO 3166 ⓘ |
| regionCodeScheme | ISO 3166-2:ZA ⓘ |
| represents |
North West
ⓘ
North West Province ⓘ |
| standard |
ISO 3166-2
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166
|
| status | active ⓘ |
| subdivisionCategory | province ⓘ |
| subdivisionName |
North West
ⓘ
North West Province ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | ZA ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | province of South Africa ⓘ |
| territory |
North West Province, South Africa
ⓘ
linked to:
North West Province
|
| usedIn |
addressing
ⓘ
data classification ⓘ geocoding ⓘ statistics ⓘ |
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: ZA-NW Description of subject: ZA-NW is the ISO 3166-2 code designating South Africa’s North West province.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.