China Standard Time
E5773
China Standard Time is the single official time zone used throughout mainland China, corresponding to UTC+8.
All labels observed (17)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| China Standard Time canonical | 2,368 |
| Asia/Shanghai | 3 |
| Beijing Time | 3 |
| Asia/Chongqing | 2 |
| Asia/Harbin | 2 |
| Hong Kong Time | 2 |
| Asia/Beijing | 1 |
| Asia/Urumqi | 1 |
| Beijing time | 1 |
| CST (China Standard Time) | 1 |
| China Standard Time region | 1 |
| China Time | 1 |
| ChinaStandardTime | 1 |
| Chungyuan Standard Time | 1 |
| Singapore Standard Time | 1 |
| Taiwan Standard Time | 1 |
| 中国标准时间 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T83582 — 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: China Standard Time Context triple: [Wuhan, timeZone, China 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.
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).
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C.
Chile Standard Time
Chile Standard Time is the primary time zone used in central Chile, including regions such as Coquimbo, typically set at UTC−4 hours.
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D.
Moscow Time
Moscow Time is the standard time zone used in Moscow and much of western Russia, corresponding to UTC+3 year-round.
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E.
Chamorro Standard Time
Chamorro Standard Time is the time zone used in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, corresponding to UTC+10:00.
- 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: China Standard Time Target entity description: China Standard Time is the single official time zone used throughout mainland China, corresponding to UTC+8.
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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.
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).
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C.
Chile Standard Time
Chile Standard Time is the primary time zone used in central Chile, including regions such as Coquimbo, typically set at UTC−4 hours.
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D.
Eastern European Time
Eastern European Time is a standard time zone used in parts of Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, typically two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+2).
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E.
Moscow Time
Moscow Time is the standard time zone used in Moscow and much of western Russia, corresponding to UTC+3 year-round.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil time standard
ⓘ
time zone ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
China Standard Time
ⓘ
surface form:
Beijing Time
CST ⓘ |
| appliesToTerritory |
Beijing
ⓘ
Guangdong Province ⓘ Hainan ⓘ Hong Kong, China ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region ⓘ Macau ⓘ Shanghai ⓘ Sichuan Province ⓘ Tibet Autonomous Region ⓘ Xinjiang ⓘ Yunnan Province ⓘ mainland China ⓘ |
| coincidesWithTimeZone |
Australian Western Standard Time
ⓘ
China Standard Time self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong Time
Malaysia Time ⓘ Japan Standard Time ⓘ
surface form:
Philippine Time
China Standard Time self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Singapore Standard Time
China Standard Time self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Taiwan Standard Time
|
| country | China ⓘ |
| coversApproximateLongitudeRange | 73°E to 135°E ⓘ |
| differenceFromUTCInHours | +8 ⓘ |
| differenceFromUTCInMinutes | 480 ⓘ |
| governingAuthority |
State Council of China
ⓘ
surface form:
State Council of the People's Republic of China
|
| IANATimeZoneIdentifier |
China Standard Time
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Asia/Chongqing
China Standard Time self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Asia/Harbin
China Standard Time self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Asia/Shanghai
Xinjiang ⓘ
surface form:
Asia/Urumqi
China ⓘ
surface form:
PRC
|
| introduced | 1949 ⓘ |
| legalStatus | official national standard time of the People's Republic of China ⓘ |
| numberOfOfficialTimeZonesInCountry | 1 ⓘ |
| observedByPopulation | over 1.4 billion people ⓘ |
| observesAllYear | yes ⓘ |
| politicalReasonForSingleZone | national unity and administrative convenience ⓘ |
| referenceMeridian | 120th meridian east ⓘ |
| regionSpan | about 5 geographical time zones ⓘ |
| timeInCapital |
China Standard Time
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Beijing time
|
| timeNotationUsed | 24-hour clock ⓘ |
| typicalAbbreviation |
CST
ⓘ
surface form:
CST (China)
|
| usedForFinancialMarkets | yes ⓘ |
| usedForRailwayTimetables | yes ⓘ |
| usedForTelevisionBroadcastSchedules | yes ⓘ |
| usedInAviationAs | UTC+8 ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | no ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | UTC+08:00 ⓘ |
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: China Standard Time Description of subject: China Standard Time is the single official time zone used throughout mainland China, corresponding to UTC+8.
Referenced by (2,391)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
School of Foreign Languages, South China University of Technology
subject surface form:
Chinese Academy of Sciences