Indian Standard Time
E5066
Indian Standard Time is the time zone used throughout India, set at UTC+5:30.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Indian Standard Time canonical | 3,937 |
| Asia/Kolkata | 12 |
| India Standard Time | 2 |
| IST (UTC+5:30) | 1 |
| Indian national time scale | 1 |
| Indian time | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T56886 — 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: Indian Standard Time Context triple: [India, timeZone, Indian Standard Time]
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A.
Japan Standard Time
Japan Standard Time is the standard time zone used throughout Japan, set at nine hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+9) without daylight saving time.
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B.
Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, historically used as the world’s primary reference for timekeeping and the basis for Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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C.
Australian Eastern Standard Time
Australian Eastern Standard Time is the standard time zone used in eastern Australia, including major regions such as New South Wales and Queensland, typically 10 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+10).
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D.
GMT
GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, historically used as the international civil time standard and the basis for modern time zones.
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E.
Central European Time
Central European Time is a standard time zone used by many countries in central and western Europe, typically one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+1).
- 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: Indian Standard Time Target entity description: Indian Standard Time is the time zone used throughout India, set at UTC+5:30.
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A.
Japan Standard Time
Japan Standard Time is the standard time zone used throughout Japan, set at nine hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+9) without daylight saving time.
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B.
Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, historically used as the world’s primary reference for timekeeping and the basis for Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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C.
Australian Eastern Standard Time
Australian Eastern Standard Time is the standard time zone used in eastern Australia, including major regions such as New South Wales and Queensland, typically 10 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+10).
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D.
GMT
GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, historically used as the international civil time standard and the basis for modern time zones.
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E.
Central European Time
Central European Time is a standard time zone used by many countries in central and western Europe, typically one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+1).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Indian Standard Time Description of subject: Indian Standard Time is the time zone used throughout India, set at UTC+5:30.
Referenced by (3,954)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
IST (UTC+5:30)