Jan Smuts International Airport
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jan Smuts International Airport canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2435597 — 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: Jan Smuts International Airport Context triple: [O. R. Tambo International Airport, previousName, Jan Smuts International Airport]
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A.
Zorg en Hoop Airport
Zorg en Hoop Airport is a small domestic airport in Paramaribo, Suriname, primarily handling regional and charter flights.
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B.
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.
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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.
Umbu Mehang Kunda Airport
Umbu Mehang Kunda Airport is a regional airport serving the island of Sumba in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, providing domestic connections to major Indonesian cities.
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E.
Walvis Bay International Airport
Walvis Bay International Airport is a regional airport in Namibia that serves the coastal city of Walvis Bay and connects it to domestic and limited international destinations.
- 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: Jan Smuts International Airport Target entity description: 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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A.
Zorg en Hoop Airport
Zorg en Hoop Airport is a small domestic airport in Paramaribo, Suriname, primarily handling regional and charter flights.
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B.
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.
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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.
Umbu Mehang Kunda Airport
Umbu Mehang Kunda Airport is a regional airport serving the island of Sumba in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, providing domestic connections to major Indonesian cities.
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E.
Walvis Bay International Airport
Walvis Bay International Airport is a regional airport in Namibia that serves the coastal city of Walvis Bay and connects it to domestic and limited international destinations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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: Jan Smuts International Airport Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.