America/New_York
E418253
America/New_York is the IANA time zone identifier covering the Eastern Time region of the United States, including major cities such as New York.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| America/New_York canonical | 106 |
| Eastern Standard Time | 3 |
| US/Eastern | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4167531 — 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/New_York Context triple: [KADW, timeZone, America/New_York]
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A.
America/Detroit
America/Detroit is the IANA time zone identifier representing Eastern Time as observed in Detroit and much of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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B.
America/St_Johns
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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C.
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
America/Indiana/Indianapolis is a time zone designation used in parts of Indiana that aligns with Eastern Time while accounting for the state's historical and regional time-keeping practices.
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D.
America/Toronto
America/Toronto is the primary Eastern Time Zone designation used for major cities in Ontario, Canada, including Toronto and Montreal.
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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/New_York Target entity description: America/New_York is the IANA time zone identifier covering the Eastern Time region of the United States, including major cities such as New York.
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A.
America/Detroit
America/Detroit is the IANA time zone identifier representing Eastern Time as observed in Detroit and much of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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B.
America/St_Johns
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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C.
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
America/Indiana/Indianapolis is a time zone designation used in parts of Indiana that aligns with Eastern Time while accounting for the state's historical and regional time-keeping practices.
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D.
America/Toronto
America/Toronto is the primary Eastern Time Zone designation used for major cities in Ontario, Canada, including Toronto and Montreal.
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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 (51)
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/New_York Description of subject: America/New_York is the IANA time zone identifier covering the Eastern Time region of the United States, including major cities such as New York.
Referenced by (110)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Eastern Standard Time
Department of Drawings and Prints of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
→
locatedInTimeZone
→
America/New_York
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Department of Musical Instruments of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
→
locatedInTimeZone
→
America/New_York
ⓘ
subject surface form:
LaGuardia Airport
subject surface form:
Union, Connecticut
subject surface form:
Bard College Cemetery
subject surface form:
Burke Lakefront Airport