Polokwane International Airport
E538850
Polokwane International Airport is a regional airport in South Africa’s Limpopo province that serves as the primary air gateway to the city of Polokwane and its surrounding areas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Polokwane International Airport canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5666974 — 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: Polokwane International Airport Context triple: [Polokwane, hasAirport, Polokwane International Airport]
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A.
Mthatha Airport
Mthatha Airport is a regional airport in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa, providing domestic air services to the surrounding area.
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B.
King Mswati III International Airport
King Mswati III International Airport is Eswatini’s main international airport, serving as the country’s primary gateway for global air travel.
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C.
King Shaka International Airport
King Shaka International Airport is the main international airport serving the Durban area in South Africa, handling both domestic and international flights.
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D.
Moshoeshoe I International Airport
Moshoeshoe I International Airport is the main international airport serving Lesotho, located near the capital city of Maseru.
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E.
Hosea Kutako International Airport
Hosea Kutako International Airport is the main international gateway to Namibia, serving the capital city of Windhoek and handling the majority of the country’s long-haul and regional air traffic.
- 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: Polokwane International Airport Target entity description: Polokwane International Airport is a regional airport in South Africa’s Limpopo province that serves as the primary air gateway to the city of Polokwane and its surrounding areas.
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A.
Mthatha Airport
Mthatha Airport is a regional airport in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa, providing domestic air services to the surrounding area.
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B.
King Mswati III International Airport
King Mswati III International Airport is Eswatini’s main international airport, serving as the country’s primary gateway for global air travel.
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C.
King Shaka International Airport
King Shaka International Airport is the main international airport serving the Durban area in South Africa, handling both domestic and international flights.
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D.
Moshoeshoe I International Airport
Moshoeshoe I International Airport is the main international airport serving Lesotho, located near the capital city of Maseru.
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E.
Hosea Kutako International Airport
Hosea Kutako International Airport is the main international gateway to Namibia, serving the capital city of Windhoek and handling the majority of the country’s long-haul and regional air traffic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
international airport ⓘ |
| cityServed | Polokwane ⓘ |
| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
air traffic control tower
ⓘ
apron ⓘ runway ⓘ terminal building ⓘ |
| hasFunction | public air transport ⓘ |
| hasNavigationType | instrument flight operations capability ⓘ |
| hasPassengerServiceType |
charter flights
ⓘ
scheduled flights ⓘ |
| hasRole | regional airport ⓘ |
| hasRunway | single paved runway ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| hasTerminalType | passenger terminal ⓘ |
| IATAcode | PTG ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | FAPP ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Limpopo province
ⓘ
linked to:
Limpopo Province
South Africa ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Polokwane ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Africa ⓘ |
| operatesAs | public airport ⓘ |
| primaryAirGatewayFor | Polokwane ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Limpopo province
ⓘ
linked to:
Limpopo Province
|
| serves |
Polokwane
ⓘ
surrounding areas of Polokwane ⓘ |
| servesAs | gateway to Limpopo province ⓘ |
| usedFor |
domestic flights
ⓘ
regional flights ⓘ |
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: Polokwane International Airport Description of subject: Polokwane International Airport is a regional airport in South Africa’s Limpopo province that serves as the primary air gateway to the city of Polokwane and its surrounding areas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.