Soweto

E31807

township urban area

Soweto is a historically significant township in Johannesburg, South Africa, known for its central role in the struggle against apartheid and its rich urban culture.

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All labels observed (14)

Label	Occurrences
Soweto canonical	62
Soweto, South Africa	5
Kliptown	4
Orlando West, Soweto	4
Orlando, Soweto	4
Greater Soweto urban area	1
Kliptown, Soweto	1
Mofolo, Soweto	1
Phefeni, Soweto	1
Soweto community	1
Soweto heritage routes	1
Soweto heritage trail	1
Soweto township	1
Soweto townships	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	township ⓘ urban area ⓘ
associatedWith	African National Congress ⓘ anti-apartheid student movements ⓘ
continent	Africa ⓘ
country	South Africa ⓘ
dateOfEvent	1976-06-16 ⓘ
demographicCharacteristic	predominantly Black African population ⓘ
hasCulturalActivity	kwaito music ⓘ street art ⓘ
hasLandmark	Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital ⓘ Hector Pieterson Museum ⓘ surface form: Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum Orlando Towers ⓘ Regina Mundi Church ⓘ Vilakazi Street ⓘ Walter Sisulu Square ⓘ
hasNeighbourhood	Chiawelo ⓘ Diepkloof ⓘ Dube ⓘ Soweto self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Kliptown Meadowlands ⓘ Mofolo ⓘ Naledi ⓘ Orlando ⓘ Pimville ⓘ Zola ⓘ
hasSportFacility	FNB Stadium (Soccer City) ⓘ surface form: FNB Stadium Orlando Stadium ⓘ
hasTransport	Metrorail Gauteng commuter rail ⓘ Rea Vaya bus rapid transit ⓘ
historicalEvent	Soweto Uprising ⓘ
historicalSignificance	central role in the struggle against apartheid ⓘ
knownFor	anti-apartheid activism ⓘ music and arts scene ⓘ political history ⓘ rich urban culture ⓘ township tourism ⓘ
languageUsed	English ⓘ Sotho ⓘ Setswana ⓘ surface form: Tswana Xhosa ⓘ Zulu ⓘ
locatedIn	Gauteng ⓘ Johannesburg, South Africa ⓘ surface form: Johannesburg
locatedInTimeZone	Central Africa Time ⓘ surface form: South African Standard Time
partOf	City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality ⓘ Johannesburg, South Africa ⓘ surface form: Greater Johannesburg urban area
tourismType	township tourism ⓘ
utcOffset	+2 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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
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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
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- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Soweto
Description of subject: Soweto is a historically significant township in Johannesburg, South Africa, known for its central role in the struggle against apartheid and its rich urban culture.

Referenced by (88)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Patrice Motsepe → placeOfBirth → Soweto ⓘ

Gauteng → containsCity → Soweto ⓘ

Johannesburg, South Africa → hasDistrict → Soweto ⓘ

subject surface form: Johannesburg

Youth Day → associatedCity → Soweto ⓘ

Winnie Mandela → residence → Soweto ⓘ

this entity surface form: Soweto, South Africa

FNB Stadium (Soccer City) → near → Soweto ⓘ

subject surface form: FNB Stadium

Soweto → hasNeighbourhood → Soweto self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kliptown

Zenani Mandela-Dlamini → placeOfBirth → Soweto ⓘ

Zindzi Mandela → placeOfBirth → Soweto ⓘ

Sarafina! → setInPlace → Soweto ⓘ

Sarafina! → filmingLocation → Soweto ⓘ

Hector Pieterson Museum → locatedIn → Soweto ⓘ

Hector Pieterson Museum → partOf → Soweto ⓘ

this entity surface form: Soweto heritage trail

Hector Pieterson Museum → locatedInNeighborhood → Soweto ⓘ

this entity surface form: Orlando West, Soweto

City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality → includesArea → Soweto ⓘ

Lenasia → near → Soweto ⓘ

Nomzamo → residence → Soweto ⓘ

subject surface form: Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela-Mandela

this entity surface form: Soweto, South Africa

National Stadium → locatedNear → Soweto ⓘ

Kaizer Chiefs F.C. → region → Soweto ⓘ

Nelson Mandela memorial service 2013 → location → Soweto ⓘ

Cyril Ramaphosa → placeOfBirth → Soweto ⓘ

Soweto Uprising → location → Soweto ⓘ

Hector Pieterson → placeOfBirth → Soweto ⓘ

Hector Pieterson → placeOfDeath → Soweto ⓘ

Hector Pieterson → memorialLocation → Soweto ⓘ

this entity surface form: Orlando West, Soweto

Hector Pieterson → residence → Soweto ⓘ

this entity surface form: Orlando West, Soweto

kidnapping and assault case involving Stompie Seipei → location → Soweto ⓘ

this entity surface form: Orlando West, Soweto

Mofolo → locatedIn → Soweto ⓘ

Mofolo → partOf → Soweto ⓘ

this entity surface form: Greater Soweto urban area

Winifred → residence → Soweto ⓘ

subject surface form: Winifred Madikizela-Mandela

this entity surface form: Soweto, South Africa

Vilakazi Street → locatedIn → Soweto ⓘ

Vilakazi Street → partOf → Soweto ⓘ

this entity surface form: Soweto heritage routes

Orlando Towers → locatedIn → Soweto ⓘ

Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital → locatedIn → Soweto ⓘ

Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital → serves → Soweto ⓘ

Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital → locatedInUrbanArea → Soweto ⓘ

this entity surface form: Soweto township

Pimville → locatedIn → Soweto ⓘ

Pimville → partOf → Soweto ⓘ

this entity surface form: Soweto townships

Pimville → locatedNear → Soweto ⓘ

this entity surface form: Orlando, Soweto

Pimville → associatedWithUrbanArea → Soweto ⓘ

Naledi → locatedIn → Soweto ⓘ

Naledi → partOf → Soweto ⓘ

Rea Vaya bus rapid transit → serves → Soweto ⓘ

subject surface form: Rea Vaya

Rea Vaya bus rapid transit → connects → Soweto ⓘ

subject surface form: Rea Vaya

Metrorail Gauteng commuter rail → serves → Soweto ⓘ

Orlando Stadium → locatedIn → Soweto ⓘ

Orlando Stadium → locatedInNeighbourhood → Soweto ⓘ

this entity surface form: Orlando, Soweto

Walter Sisulu Square → locatedIn → Soweto ⓘ