KST
E558538
KST is the standard time zone used in South Korea (and formerly North Korea), set nine hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+9).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KST canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5980056 — 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: KST Context triple: [Pyongyang Time, timeZoneAbbreviation, KST]
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A.
Kopet Dag
Kopet Dag is a mountain range in Central Asia forming a natural border between northeastern Iran and southern Turkmenistan.
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B.
KZT
KZT is the currency code for the Kazakhstani tenge, the official monetary unit of Kazakhstan.
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C.
Kut
Kut is a city in eastern Iraq situated on the banks of the Tigris River, known historically as a strategic location and the site of significant World War I battles.
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D.
KT
KT is a UK postcode area covering Kingston upon Thames and surrounding parts of southwest London and north Surrey.
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E.
KT
KT is the official vehicle registration code used on license plates for vehicles registered in Katsina State, Nigeria.
- 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: KST Target entity description: KST is the standard time zone used in South Korea (and formerly North Korea), set nine hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+9).
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A.
Kopet Dag
Kopet Dag is a mountain range in Central Asia forming a natural border between northeastern Iran and southern Turkmenistan.
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B.
KZT
KZT is the currency code for the Kazakhstani tenge, the official monetary unit of Kazakhstan.
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C.
Kut
Kut is a city in eastern Iraq situated on the banks of the Tigris River, known historically as a strategic location and the site of significant World War I battles.
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D.
KT
KT is a UK postcode area covering Kingston upon Thames and surrounding parts of southwest London and north Surrey.
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E.
KT
KT is the official vehicle registration code used on license plates for vehicles registered in Katsina State, Nigeria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | time zone ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor | Korea Standard Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliesToTerritory | Republic of Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| baseOn | mean solar time at 135°E longitude ⓘ |
| category | Time in South Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryUsedIn | South Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| daylightSavingTime | not observed ⓘ |
| DSTObserved | no ⓘ |
| fullName | Korea Standard Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hoursAheadOfUTC | 9 ⓘ |
| IANAZoneName | Asia/Seoul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedInCountry | introduced as standard time in Korea in early 20th century ⓘ |
| observedBy |
government of South Korea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
residents of South Korea ⓘ |
| offsetFromKSTToJST | 0 hours ⓘ |
| offsetFromKSTToUTC | −9 hours ⓘ |
| offsetFromUTCToKST | +9 hours ⓘ |
| region | East Asia ⓘ |
| sameOffsetAs |
JST
ⓘ
Japan Standard Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Yakutsk Time (standard) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| standardTimeOf | South Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeInAdvanceOf | Coordinated Universal Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeNotation | 24-hour clock ⓘ |
| timeZoneType | fixed-offset time zone ⓘ |
| usedFor | civil timekeeping in South Korea ⓘ |
| usedHistoricallyIn | North Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInCapitalCity | Seoul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | UTC+09:00 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetHours | 9 ⓘ |
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: KST Description of subject: KST is the standard time zone used in South Korea (and formerly North Korea), set nine hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+9).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.