Johannesburg Stock Exchange
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The Johannesburg Stock Exchange is the largest stock exchange in Africa, serving as South Africa’s primary securities market and a major financial hub on the continent.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Johannesburg Stock Exchange canonical | 32 |
| Johannesburg Stock Exchange Limited | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T418261 — 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: Johannesburg Stock Exchange Context triple: [Gauteng, containsStockExchange, Johannesburg Stock Exchange]
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A.
Nairobi Securities Exchange
The Nairobi Securities Exchange is Kenya's principal stock exchange, providing a platform for trading equities, bonds, and other securities in East Africa.
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B.
Frankfurt Stock Exchange
The Frankfurt Stock Exchange is one of the world’s largest and most important securities trading centers, serving as Germany’s primary stock market.
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C.
Amsterdam Stock Exchange
The Amsterdam Stock Exchange is one of the world’s oldest organized securities markets, historically pivotal in the development of modern finance and global trade.
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D.
Tokyo Stock Exchange
The Tokyo Stock Exchange is Japan's largest securities exchange and one of the world's leading stock markets, where shares of major Japanese and international companies are traded.
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E.
Euronext
Euronext is a pan-European stock exchange group that operates major securities markets across several European countries, including the Netherlands, France, Belgium, and others.
- 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: Johannesburg Stock Exchange Target entity description: The Johannesburg Stock Exchange is the largest stock exchange in Africa, serving as South Africa’s primary securities market and a major financial hub on the continent.
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A.
Nairobi Securities Exchange
The Nairobi Securities Exchange is Kenya's principal stock exchange, providing a platform for trading equities, bonds, and other securities in East Africa.
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B.
Frankfurt Stock Exchange
The Frankfurt Stock Exchange is one of the world’s largest and most important securities trading centers, serving as Germany’s primary stock market.
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C.
Amsterdam Stock Exchange
The Amsterdam Stock Exchange is one of the world’s oldest organized securities markets, historically pivotal in the development of modern finance and global trade.
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D.
Tokyo Stock Exchange
The Tokyo Stock Exchange is Japan's largest securities exchange and one of the world's leading stock markets, where shares of major Japanese and international companies are traded.
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E.
Euronext
Euronext is a pan-European stock exchange group that operates major securities markets across several European countries, including the Netherlands, France, Belgium, and others.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
financial market infrastructure ⓘ stock exchange ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
JSE Limited
ⓘ
surface form:
JSE
|
| AltXFocus | small and medium-sized companies ⓘ |
| clearingAndSettlementProvider | Strate ⓘ |
| clearingModel | central counterparty clearing ⓘ |
| closingAuctionTimeLocal | 17:00 ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| excludesTradingOn | South African public holidays ⓘ |
| formerName |
Johannesburg Stock Exchange
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Limited
|
| foundedDuring |
West Rand goldfields
ⓘ
surface form:
Witwatersrand Gold Rush
|
| foundedIn | 1887 ⓘ |
| hasElectronicTradingSystem | yes ⓘ |
| hasSegment |
AltX
ⓘ
Main Board ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Johannesburg, South Africa
ⓘ
surface form:
Johannesburg
Sandton ⓘ |
| isLargestStockExchangeIn | Africa ⓘ |
| isMajorFinancialHubFor | African continent ⓘ |
| languageOfOperation | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | public company ⓘ |
| listedOn | Johannesburg Stock Exchange self-link ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Gauteng
ⓘ
Johannesburg, South Africa ⓘ
surface form:
Johannesburg
South Africa ⓘ |
| marketType |
bond market
ⓘ
commodity derivatives market ⓘ currency derivatives market ⓘ derivatives market ⓘ equity market ⓘ exchange-traded funds market ⓘ listed debt market ⓘ |
| memberOf |
African Securities Exchanges Association
ⓘ
World Federation of Exchanges ⓘ |
| offers |
capital raising services
ⓘ
initial public offerings ⓘ primary listings ⓘ secondary listings ⓘ |
| openingAuctionTimeLocal | 09:00 ⓘ |
| primaryCurrency | South African rand ⓘ |
| primaryCurrencyCode | ZAR ⓘ |
| primaryIndex |
FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Index
ⓘ
FTSE/JSE Top 40 Index ⓘ |
| regulator |
Financial Sector Conduct Authority
ⓘ
Prudential Authority of the South African Reserve Bank ⓘ |
| roleInEconomy |
facilitates capital formation in South Africa
ⓘ
provides liquidity for listed securities ⓘ |
| selfListing | true ⓘ |
| servesAs | South Africa’s primary securities market ⓘ |
| supportsTradingMethod | order-driven electronic trading ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central Africa Time
ⓘ
surface form:
South African Standard Time
|
| tradingDays | Monday to Friday ⓘ |
| website | https://www.jse.co.za ⓘ |
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: Johannesburg Stock Exchange Description of subject: The Johannesburg Stock Exchange is the largest stock exchange in Africa, serving as South Africa’s primary securities market and a major financial hub on the continent.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Johannesburg
this entity surface form:
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Limited