ISO 3166-2:ZA
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ISO 3166-2:ZA is the section of the ISO 3166-2 standard that defines subdivision codes for the provinces of South Africa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISO 3166-2:ZA canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2897836 — 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: ISO 3166-2:ZA Context triple: [ZA-NC, belongsToCodeSet, ISO 3166-2:ZA]
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A.
Limpopo Province
Limpopo Province is South Africa’s northernmost province, known for its rich wildlife, cultural diversity, and extensive agricultural and mining activities.
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B.
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a coastal province in eastern South Africa known for its Zulu cultural heritage, major cities like Durban and Pietermaritzburg, and diverse landscapes ranging from beaches to the Drakensberg mountains.
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C.
Kwaluseni
Kwaluseni is a town in Eswatini known primarily as the main campus site of the University of Eswatini.
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D.
Thembuland
Thembuland is a historical region in South Africa that served as the traditional homeland of the Thembu people, an Nguni-speaking group to which figures like Nelson Mandela belong.
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E.
North West Province
North West Province is a largely rural, mining- and agriculture-focused province in north-central South Africa, bordering Botswana and known for sites such as Sun City and the Pilanesberg Game Reserve.
- 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: ISO 3166-2:ZA Target entity description: ISO 3166-2:ZA is the section of the ISO 3166-2 standard that defines subdivision codes for the provinces of South Africa.
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A.
Limpopo Province
Limpopo Province is South Africa’s northernmost province, known for its rich wildlife, cultural diversity, and extensive agricultural and mining activities.
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B.
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a coastal province in eastern South Africa known for its Zulu cultural heritage, major cities like Durban and Pietermaritzburg, and diverse landscapes ranging from beaches to the Drakensberg mountains.
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C.
Kwaluseni
Kwaluseni is a town in Eswatini known primarily as the main campus site of the University of Eswatini.
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D.
Thembuland
Thembuland is a historical region in South Africa that served as the traditional homeland of the Thembu people, an Nguni-speaking group to which figures like Nelson Mandela belong.
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E.
North West Province
North West Province is a largely rural, mining- and agriculture-focused province in north-central South Africa, bordering Botswana and known for sites such as Sun City and the Pilanesberg Game Reserve.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ISO 3166-2 entry
ⓘ
geographic code standard ⓘ |
| appliesTo | provinces of South Africa ⓘ |
| basedOn | current administrative divisions of South Africa ⓘ |
| codeStructure | ZA-XX ⓘ |
| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| defines | codes for subdivisions of South Africa ⓘ |
| hasCountryCode | ZA ⓘ |
| hasFormatSpecification | two-letter province code appended to ZA with hyphen ⓘ |
| hasScope | first-level administrative subdivisions of South Africa ⓘ |
| includesSubdivisionCode |
ZA-EC
ⓘ
ZA-FS ⓘ ZA-GT ⓘ ZA-KZN ⓘ ZA-LP ⓘ ZA-MP ⓘ ZA-NC ⓘ ZA-NW ⓘ ZA-WC ⓘ |
| isPublishedIn |
ISO 3166-2 standard
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166
|
| languageOfSubdivisionNames | English ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
ⓘ
International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| numberOfSubdivisions | 9 ⓘ |
| partOf |
ISO 3166
ⓘ
ISO 3166-2 ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166
|
| region | Africa ⓘ |
| relatesTo | South African provincial government units ⓘ |
| standardizes | short codes for South African provinces ⓘ |
| subdivisionCategory | province ⓘ |
| subdivisionNameForCode |
ZA-EC = Eastern Cape
ⓘ
ZA-FS = Free State ⓘ ZA-GT = Gauteng ⓘ ZA-KZN = KwaZulu-Natal ⓘ ZA-LP = Limpopo ⓘ ZA-MP = Mpumalanga ⓘ ZA-NC = Northern Cape ⓘ ZA-NW = North West ⓘ ZA-WC = Western Cape ⓘ |
| subjectOf | ISO Online Browsing Platform entry ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administrative referencing
ⓘ
data exchange ⓘ geocoding ⓘ statistical purposes ⓘ |
| usesCodeElementsFrom |
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166
|
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: ISO 3166-2:ZA Description of subject: ISO 3166-2:ZA is the section of the ISO 3166-2 standard that defines subdivision codes for the provinces of South Africa.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.