Irkutsk Time
E466443
Irkutsk Time is a time zone in eastern Siberia, Russia, set eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Irkutsk Time canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4637110 — 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: Irkutsk Time Context triple: [Irkutsk Oblast, timeZone, Irkutsk Time]
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A.
Yakutsk Time
Yakutsk Time is a time zone used in eastern Russia, including parts of the Sakha Republic, that is typically nine hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+9).
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B.
Magadan Time
Magadan Time is a time zone used in parts of Russia’s Far East, including regions such as the Sakha Republic.
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C.
Krasnoyarsk Time (standard)
Krasnoyarsk Time (standard) is a time zone used in central Siberia, Russia, corresponding to UTC+7.
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D.
Yekaterinburg Time
Yekaterinburg Time is a Russian time zone used in the Ural region, typically four hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+4) and one hour ahead of Moscow Time.
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E.
Vladivostok Time (VLAT)
Vladivostok Time (VLAT) is a time zone used in Russia’s Far East, including the city of Vladivostok, typically set nine hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+9).
- 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: Irkutsk Time Target entity description: Irkutsk Time is a time zone in eastern Siberia, Russia, set eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
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A.
Yakutsk Time
Yakutsk Time is a time zone used in eastern Russia, including parts of the Sakha Republic, that is typically nine hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+9).
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B.
Magadan Time
Magadan Time is a time zone used in parts of Russia’s Far East, including regions such as the Sakha Republic.
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C.
Krasnoyarsk Time (standard)
Krasnoyarsk Time (standard) is a time zone used in central Siberia, Russia, corresponding to UTC+7.
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D.
Yekaterinburg Time
Yekaterinburg Time is a Russian time zone used in the Ural region, typically four hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+4) and one hour ahead of Moscow Time.
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E.
Vladivostok Time (VLAT)
Vladivostok Time (VLAT) is a time zone used in Russia’s Far East, including the city of Vladivostok, typically set nine hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+9).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | time zone ⓘ |
| appliesToCity |
Chita
NERFINISHED
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Irkutsk NERFINISHED ⓘ Ulan-Ude NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliesToFederalSubject |
Buryatia
NERFINISHED
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Irkutsk Oblast NERFINISHED ⓘ Zabaykalsky Krai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliesToPartOf |
Asian Russia
NERFINISHED
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Far Eastern Federal District NERFINISHED ⓘ Siberian Federal District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| countryUsesTimeZone | Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| DSTobserved | false ⓘ |
| geographicalDescription | time zone in eastern Siberia ⓘ |
| historicalChange |
Russia abolished seasonal clock changes in 2014 affecting Irkutsk Time
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Russia switched from permanent daylight saving time to permanent standard time in 2014 affecting Irkutsk Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalDSTCountry | Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalDSTObserved | yes ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | eastern Siberia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | no ⓘ |
| offsetFromMoscowTime | MSK+5 ⓘ |
| offsetFromMoscowTimeHours | +5 ⓘ |
| offsetReference | 8 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time ⓘ |
| regionType | Siberia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeNotation | UTC+08:00 ⓘ |
| timeStandard | Coordinated Universal Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZoneAbbreviation | IRKT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZoneDatabaseIdentifier | Asia/Irkutsk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedForCivilTimekeeping | yes ⓘ |
| usedInRailwayTimeContext | yes ⓘ |
| UTCoffset | UTC+8 ⓘ |
| UTCoffsetHours | +8 ⓘ |
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: Irkutsk Time Description of subject: Irkutsk Time is a time zone in eastern Siberia, Russia, set eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Irkutsk