America/St_Johns
E280585
America/St_Johns is the IANA time zone identifier for Newfoundland Time, used primarily in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| America/St_Johns canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2572944 — 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: America/St_Johns Context triple: [NST, IANAZoneExample, America/St_Johns]
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A.
America/Havana
America/Havana is the IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Havana, Cuba.
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B.
America/Belize
America/Belize is the IANA time zone identifier representing the standard time observed in Belize, corresponding to Central Standard Time without daylight saving changes.
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C.
Atlantic Time Zone
The Atlantic Time Zone is a North American time zone used in eastern Canada and parts of the Caribbean, typically one hour ahead of Eastern Time.
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D.
Eastern Standard Time (Panama)
Eastern Standard Time (Panama) is the year-round time standard used in Panama, corresponding to UTC−5 without daylight saving time.
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E.
Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone is a standard time zone used by the eastern portion of North America, including major U.S. cities such as New York and Washington, D.C.
- 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: America/St_Johns Target entity description: America/St_Johns is the IANA time zone identifier for Newfoundland Time, used primarily in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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A.
America/Havana
America/Havana is the IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Havana, Cuba.
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B.
America/Belize
America/Belize is the IANA time zone identifier representing the standard time observed in Belize, corresponding to Central Standard Time without daylight saving changes.
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C.
Atlantic Time Zone
The Atlantic Time Zone is a North American time zone used in eastern Canada and parts of the Caribbean, typically one hour ahead of Eastern Time.
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D.
Eastern Standard Time (Panama)
Eastern Standard Time (Panama) is the year-round time standard used in Panama, corresponding to UTC−5 without daylight saving time.
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E.
Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone is a standard time zone used by the eastern portion of North America, including major U.S. cities such as New York and Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IANA time zone identifier
ⓘ
time zone ⓘ |
| abbreviationDaylight | NDT GENERATED ⓘ |
| abbreviationStandard | NST GENERATED ⓘ |
| canonical | true GENERATED ⓘ |
| city | St. John’s GENERATED ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| countryCode | CA GENERATED ⓘ |
| databaseName | zone.tab GENERATED ⓘ |
| daylightTimeName | Newfoundland Daylight Time GENERATED ⓘ |
| daylightUtcOffset | UTC−02:30 GENERATED ⓘ |
| dstRuleSource | Canadian daylight saving rules GENERATED ⓘ |
| format | Area/Location GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasLatitudeApprox | 47.56N GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasLongitudeApprox | 52.71W GENERATED ⓘ |
| ianaTimeZoneDatabase | tz database GENERATED ⓘ |
| ianaTimeZoneRegion | America GENERATED ⓘ |
| linkedTo | Newfoundland Time GENERATED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | true GENERATED ⓘ |
| offsetType | non-integer hour offset GENERATED ⓘ |
| primaryUsage | Newfoundland Time GENERATED ⓘ |
| region | Newfoundland and Labrador GENERATED ⓘ |
| standardTimeName | Newfoundland Standard Time GENERATED ⓘ |
| standardUtcOffset | UTC−03:30 GENERATED ⓘ |
| timeStandard | Coordinated Universal Time GENERATED ⓘ |
| timeZoneFor |
Canada
GENERATED
ⓘ
Newfoundland and Labrador GENERATED ⓘ St. John’s GENERATED ⓘ |
| usedIn | Atlantic Canada GENERATED ⓘ |
| usesHalfHourOffset | true GENERATED ⓘ |
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: America/St_Johns Description of subject: America/St_Johns is the IANA time zone identifier for Newfoundland Time, used primarily in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.