Malaysia Time
E35608
Malaysia Time is the standard time zone used throughout Malaysia, set eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Malaysia Time canonical | 139 |
| Malaysia Standard Time | 4 |
| Singapore Standard Time | 4 |
| Asia/Kuala_Lumpur | 2 |
| Brunei Darussalam Time | 2 |
| Philippine Standard Time | 2 |
| Singapore Time | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T267965 — 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: Malaysia Time Context triple: [China Standard Time, coincidesWithTimeZone, Malaysia Time]
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A.
Western Indonesian Time
Western Indonesian Time is the standard time zone used in western parts of Indonesia, including major regions such as Java and Sumatra, set at UTC+7.
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B.
Gulf Standard Time
Gulf Standard Time is the time zone used by several Gulf countries, including the United Arab Emirates, which is four hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+4) and does not observe daylight saving time.
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C.
Malaysia
Malaysia is a Southeast Asian country on the Malay Peninsula and parts of Borneo, known for its multicultural society, tropical rainforests, and rapidly developing economy.
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D.
Madras Time
Madras Time was a former local time standard used in the Madras (now Chennai) region of India before the adoption of a unified national time zone.
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E.
Pakistan Standard Time
Pakistan Standard Time is the time zone used throughout Pakistan, corresponding to UTC+5 hours.
- 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: Malaysia Time Target entity description: Malaysia Time is the standard time zone used throughout Malaysia, set eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
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A.
Western Indonesian Time
Western Indonesian Time is the standard time zone used in western parts of Indonesia, including major regions such as Java and Sumatra, set at UTC+7.
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B.
Gulf Standard Time
Gulf Standard Time is the time zone used by several Gulf countries, including the United Arab Emirates, which is four hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+4) and does not observe daylight saving time.
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C.
Malaysia
Malaysia is a Southeast Asian country on the Malay Peninsula and parts of Borneo, known for its multicultural society, tropical rainforests, and rapidly developing economy.
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D.
Madras Time
Madras Time was a former local time standard used in the Madras (now Chennai) region of India before the adoption of a unified national time zone.
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E.
Pakistan Standard Time
Pakistan Standard Time is the time zone used throughout Pakistan, corresponding to UTC+5 hours.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: Malaysia Time Description of subject: Malaysia Time is the standard time zone used throughout Malaysia, set eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
Referenced by (155)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Kota Kinabalu
this entity surface form:
Malaysia Standard Time
subject surface form:
Section 14, Petaling Jaya