Newcastle Local Municipality
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Newcastle Local Municipality is a local government area in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, that administers the town of Newcastle and its surrounding communities.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Newcastle Local Municipality canonical | 4 |
| Newcastle Local Municipality council | 2 |
| Newcastle Local Municipality mayoral committee | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1962526 — 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: Newcastle Local Municipality Context triple: [Newcastle, Natal, locatedIn, Newcastle Local Municipality]
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Capricorn District Municipality
Capricorn District Municipality is a local government area in South Africa that administers a central region of Limpopo Province, including the provincial capital Polokwane and surrounding rural communities.
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Waterberg District Municipality
Waterberg District Municipality is a local government area in South Africa that administers the western part of Limpopo Province, known for its extensive wildlife reserves and the UNESCO-listed Waterberg Biosphere.
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Sedibeng District Municipality
Sedibeng District Municipality is a local government area in South Africa that administers the southern part of Gauteng Province, including towns such as Vereeniging and Vanderbijlpark.
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Vhembe District Municipality
Vhembe District Municipality is a largely rural district in the northern part of South Africa’s Limpopo province, bordering Zimbabwe and Mozambique and known for its strong Venda cultural presence and agricultural activities.
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E.
Sekhukhune District Municipality
Sekhukhune District Municipality is a local government area in South Africa responsible for administering and coordinating municipal services in the southeastern part of Limpopo 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: Newcastle Local Municipality Target entity description: Newcastle Local Municipality is a local government area in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, that administers the town of Newcastle and its surrounding communities.
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A.
Capricorn District Municipality
Capricorn District Municipality is a local government area in South Africa that administers a central region of Limpopo Province, including the provincial capital Polokwane and surrounding rural communities.
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B.
Waterberg District Municipality
Waterberg District Municipality is a local government area in South Africa that administers the western part of Limpopo Province, known for its extensive wildlife reserves and the UNESCO-listed Waterberg Biosphere.
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C.
Sedibeng District Municipality
Sedibeng District Municipality is a local government area in South Africa that administers the southern part of Gauteng Province, including towns such as Vereeniging and Vanderbijlpark.
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D.
Vhembe District Municipality
Vhembe District Municipality is a largely rural district in the northern part of South Africa’s Limpopo province, bordering Zimbabwe and Mozambique and known for its strong Venda cultural presence and agricultural activities.
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E.
Sekhukhune District Municipality
Sekhukhune District Municipality is a local government area in South Africa responsible for administering and coordinating municipal services in the southeastern part of Limpopo province.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Newcastle Local Municipality Description of subject: Newcastle Local Municipality is a local government area in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, that administers the town of Newcastle and its surrounding communities.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Newcastle (KwaZulu-Natal)
Newcastle Local Municipality
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hasGovernmentSeat
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Newcastle Local Municipality
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this entity surface form:
Newcastle Local Municipality council
Newcastle Local Municipality
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hasLegislativeBody
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Newcastle Local Municipality
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this entity surface form:
Newcastle Local Municipality council
Newcastle Local Municipality
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hasExecutiveBody
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Newcastle Local Municipality
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this entity surface form:
Newcastle Local Municipality mayoral committee