Afghanistan Time
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Afghanistan Time is the standard time zone used throughout Afghanistan, set at UTC+4:30.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Afghanistan Time canonical | 53 |
| Afghanistan Time (UTC+4:30) | 2 |
| Asia/Kabul | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2055991 — 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: Afghanistan Time Context triple: [Western Afghanistan, timeZone, Afghanistan Time]
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A.
Pakistan Standard Time
Pakistan Standard Time is the time zone used throughout Pakistan, corresponding to UTC+5 hours.
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B.
Azerbaijan Time
Azerbaijan Time is the standard time zone used throughout Azerbaijan, typically four hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+4).
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C.
Iran Standard Time
Iran Standard Time is the time zone used throughout Iran, set at UTC+3:30 and observed in cities such as Tehran.
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D.
Arabia Standard Time
Arabia Standard Time is the time zone used by several countries on the Arabian Peninsula, including Saudi Arabia, typically corresponding to UTC+3 with no daylight saving time.
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E.
Iran Daylight Time
Iran Daylight Time is the daylight saving time observed in Iran, advancing clocks one hour ahead of the country’s standard time during the summer months.
- 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: Afghanistan Time Target entity description: Afghanistan Time is the standard time zone used throughout Afghanistan, set at UTC+4:30.
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A.
Pakistan Standard Time
Pakistan Standard Time is the time zone used throughout Pakistan, corresponding to UTC+5 hours.
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B.
Azerbaijan Time
Azerbaijan Time is the standard time zone used throughout Azerbaijan, typically four hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+4).
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C.
Iran Standard Time
Iran Standard Time is the time zone used throughout Iran, set at UTC+3:30 and observed in cities such as Tehran.
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D.
Arabia Standard Time
Arabia Standard Time is the time zone used by several countries on the Arabian Peninsula, including Saudi Arabia, typically corresponding to UTC+3 with no daylight saving time.
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E.
Iran Daylight Time
Iran Daylight Time is the daylight saving time observed in Iran, advancing clocks one hour ahead of the country’s standard time during the summer months.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
standard time
ⓘ
time zone ⓘ |
| appliesToEntireTerritoryOf | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| capitalCityInThisTimeZone | Kabul ⓘ |
| countryUsedIn | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| DSTObserved | false ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | AFT ⓘ |
| hasFixedOffsetYearRound | true ⓘ |
| hasHalfHourOffset | true ⓘ |
| IANATimeZoneIdentifier |
Afghanistan Time
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Asia/Kabul
|
| isAheadOf | Coordinated Universal Time ⓘ |
| isAheadOfUTCByHours | 4.5 ⓘ |
| isAheadOfUTCByMinutes | 270 ⓘ |
| isHalfHourTimeZone | yes ⓘ |
| isNeighboringTimeZoneTo |
Iran Standard Time
ⓘ
Pakistan Standard Time ⓘ |
| isOffsetBetween | UTC+04:00 and UTC+05:00 ⓘ |
| isStandardTimeOf | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| isUniformAcrossCountry | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| legalTimeIn | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | no ⓘ |
| offsetFromCoordinatedUniversalTime | +04:30 ⓘ |
| region | Asia ⓘ |
| timeNotationAlsoUsed | 12-hour clock ⓘ |
| timeNotationCommonlyUsed | 24-hour clock ⓘ |
| usedForCivilTimeIn | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| usedInSouthCentralAsia | true ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | UTC+04:30 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetHours | 4.5 ⓘ |
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: Afghanistan Time Description of subject: Afghanistan Time is the standard time zone used throughout Afghanistan, set at UTC+4:30.
Referenced by (56)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jalalabad
subject surface form:
Helmand Province
this entity surface form:
Asia/Kabul
this entity surface form:
Afghanistan Time (UTC+4:30)