America/Recife
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America/Recife is the time zone used in parts of northeastern Brazil, including the city of Recife and surrounding regions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| America/Recife canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5976202 — 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/Recife Context triple: [Barro (Recife), locatedInTimeZone, America/Recife]
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A.
America/Bahia_Banderas
America/Bahia_Banderas is an IANA time zone identifier used for the Bahia de Banderas region in Mexico, aligning it with Central Time.
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B.
Brasília Time
Brasília Time is the standard time zone used in Brazil’s capital and much of the country’s eastern region, typically set at UTC−03:00.
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C.
America/Santiago
America/Santiago is the primary IANA time zone identifier used for the Santiago region of Chile, reflecting the country's standard and daylight saving time rules.
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D.
America/Havana
America/Havana is the IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Havana, Cuba.
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E.
America/Panama
America/Panama is the IANA time zone identifier used for Panama, which observes Eastern Standard Time year-round without daylight saving time.
- 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/Recife Target entity description: America/Recife is the time zone used in parts of northeastern Brazil, including the city of Recife and surrounding regions.
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A.
America/Bahia_Banderas
America/Bahia_Banderas is an IANA time zone identifier used for the Bahia de Banderas region in Mexico, aligning it with Central Time.
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B.
Brasília Time
Brasília Time is the standard time zone used in Brazil’s capital and much of the country’s eastern region, typically set at UTC−03:00.
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C.
America/Santiago
America/Santiago is the primary IANA time zone identifier used for the Santiago region of Chile, reflecting the country's standard and daylight saving time rules.
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D.
America/Havana
America/Havana is the IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Havana, Cuba.
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E.
America/Panama
America/Panama is the IANA time zone identifier used for Panama, which observes Eastern Standard Time year-round without daylight saving time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | time zone ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | canonical ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| countryCode | BR ⓘ |
| coversState |
Alagoas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paraíba NERFINISHED ⓘ Pernambuco NERFINISHED ⓘ Rio Grande do Norte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| databaseSection | southamerica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalDSTUse | yes ⓘ |
| ianaMaintainer | IANA Time Zone Database project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| javaTimeZoneID | America/Recife ⓘ |
| latitudeApproxPrincipalCity | −8.05 ⓘ |
| longitudeApproxPrincipalCity | −34.9 ⓘ |
| networkProtocolUsage | used in computing systems for local time in Recife region ⓘ |
| observesDSTCurrently | false ⓘ |
| offsetInSeconds | −10800 ⓘ |
| olsonFormatName | America/Recife ⓘ |
| phpTimeZoneID | America/Recife ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageRegion | Portuguese ⓘ |
| principalCity | Recife NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pythonZoneInfoKey | America/Recife ⓘ |
| region | Northeastern Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sameStandardOffsetAs | America/Sao_Paulo ⓘ |
| standardOffsetFromUTC | UTC−03:00 ⓘ |
| timeNotationCommon | 24-hour clock ⓘ |
| timeZoneDatabase | IANA tz database NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tzdbIdentifier | America/Recife ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | no ⓘ |
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/Recife Description of subject: America/Recife is the time zone used in parts of northeastern Brazil, including the city of Recife and surrounding regions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Barro (Recife)