Western Province Rugby Football Union
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Western Province Rugby Football Union is a South African provincial rugby governing body best known for administering Western Province and its professional franchise, the Stormers, in major domestic and international competitions.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Western Province | 3 |
| Western Province Rugby Football Union canonical | 3 |
| Western Province rugby team | 2 |
| Natal Rugby Union | 1 |
| Western Province rugby union team | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5940130 — 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: Western Province Rugby Football Union Context triple: [Stormers, governingUnion, Western Province Rugby Football Union]
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A.
Western Province
Western Province is a South African domestic cricket team based in Cape Town that competes in the country’s provincial competitions.
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B.
Western Province
Western Province is a populous and economically vital administrative region of Sri Lanka that includes the national capital, Colombo.
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C.
Western Province
Western Province is an administrative region of the Solomon Islands encompassing parts of the western archipelago, including the New Georgia Islands.
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D.
KwaZulu-Natal Rugby Union
The KwaZulu-Natal Rugby Union is the governing body for rugby union in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, overseeing the sport’s administration, development, and representative teams in the region.
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E.
South African Rugby Union
The South African Rugby Union is the national governing body responsible for organizing and overseeing rugby union in South Africa, including its professional teams and competitions.
- 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: Western Province Rugby Football Union Target entity description: Western Province Rugby Football Union is a South African provincial rugby governing body best known for administering Western Province and its professional franchise, the Stormers, in major domestic and international competitions.
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A.
Western Province
Western Province is a South African domestic cricket team based in Cape Town that competes in the country’s provincial competitions.
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B.
Western Province
Western Province is a populous and economically vital administrative region of Sri Lanka that includes the national capital, Colombo.
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C.
Western Province
Western Province is an administrative region of the Solomon Islands encompassing parts of the western archipelago, including the New Georgia Islands.
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D.
KwaZulu-Natal Rugby Union
The KwaZulu-Natal Rugby Union is the governing body for rugby union in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, overseeing the sport’s administration, development, and representative teams in the region.
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E.
South African Rugby Union
The South African Rugby Union is the national governing body responsible for organizing and overseeing rugby union in South Africa, including its professional teams and competitions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rugby union governing body
ⓘ
sports governing body ⓘ |
| administers |
Stormers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Western Province rugby union team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| affiliation | South African Rugby Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedFranchiseCompetition |
European Professional Club Rugby competitions
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Rugby Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedTeamNickname | Province ⓘ |
| basedIn | Cape Town NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competition |
Currie Cup
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Rugby Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ Vodacom Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| countryLeague | South African domestic rugby union system ⓘ |
| formerHomeStadium | Newlands Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| governs |
Stormers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Western Province rugby union team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governsLevel |
amateur rugby
ⓘ
professional rugby ⓘ |
| homeStadium | DHL Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableColour |
blue
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| organises | provincial rugby competitions in Western Cape ⓘ |
| professionalFranchise | Stormers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| provincialTeam | Western Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed | Western Cape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represents |
Cape Town metropolitan area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Western Cape province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortName | WPRFU NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | rugby union ⓘ |
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: Western Province Rugby Football Union Description of subject: Western Province Rugby Football Union is a South African provincial rugby governing body best known for administering Western Province and its professional franchise, the Stormers, in major domestic and international competitions.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Western Province
this entity surface form:
Western Province rugby team
this entity surface form:
Western Province rugby team
this entity surface form:
Western Province
this entity surface form:
Natal Rugby Union
this entity surface form:
Western Province rugby union team
this entity surface form:
Western Province