Europe/Madrid
E581219
Europe/Madrid is the standard time zone used in most of mainland Spain, including Madrid, typically corresponding to Central European Time (CET) and Central European Summer Time (CEST).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Europe/Madrid canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6281148 — 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: Europe/Madrid Context triple: [LEMD, timeZone, Europe/Madrid]
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A.
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain, renowned for its rich cultural heritage, historic architecture, and vibrant arts and nightlife scenes.
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B.
Madrid
Madrid is a municipality in the Cundinamarca department of Colombia, located near Bogotá and known for its floriculture and agricultural production.
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C.
Madri
Madri is a princess from the Mahabharata epic, known as the second wife of King Pandu and the mother of the twins Nakula and Sahadeva.
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D.
Madrid metropolitan area
The Madrid metropolitan area is the large urban and economic region centered on Spain’s capital city, encompassing Madrid and its surrounding municipalities and suburbs.
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E.
Cantoblanco, Madrid
Cantoblanco, Madrid is a northern district of Madrid known primarily as the site of the Autonomous University of Madrid’s main campus and associated research and residential facilities.
- 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: Europe/Madrid Target entity description: Europe/Madrid is the standard time zone used in most of mainland Spain, including Madrid, typically corresponding to Central European Time (CET) and Central European Summer Time (CEST).
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A.
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain, renowned for its rich cultural heritage, historic architecture, and vibrant arts and nightlife scenes.
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B.
Madrid
Madrid is a municipality in the Cundinamarca department of Colombia, located near Bogotá and known for its floriculture and agricultural production.
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C.
Madri
Madri is a princess from the Mahabharata epic, known as the second wife of King Pandu and the mother of the twins Nakula and Sahadeva.
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D.
Madrid metropolitan area
The Madrid metropolitan area is the large urban and economic region centered on Spain’s capital city, encompassing Madrid and its surrounding municipalities and suburbs.
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E.
Cantoblanco, Madrid
Cantoblanco, Madrid is a northern district of Madrid known primarily as the site of the Autonomous University of Madrid’s main campus and associated research and residential facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | time zone ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Balearic Islands
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spanish mainland ⓘ |
| belongsToTimeZoneGroup | Central European Time zone group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| coordinatesRepresentativeLocation | 40.4167 -3.7167 ⓘ |
| countryCode | ES ⓘ |
| database | IANA time zone database NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| daylightSavingTimeAbbreviation | CEST ⓘ |
| daylightSavingTimeName | Central European Summer Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| daylightSavingUtcOffset | +02:00 ⓘ |
| dstAppliesFromYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| dstAuthority | European Union directives ⓘ |
| dstEndRule | last Sunday in October at 01:00 UTC ⓘ |
| dstStartRule | last Sunday in March at 01:00 UTC ⓘ |
| hemisphere | Northern Hemisphere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalUtcOffset | +00:00 ⓘ |
| historicalUtcOffsetChangeYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| historicalUtcOffsetNote | shifted from GMT to align with Central European Time ⓘ |
| ianaTimeZone | Europe/Madrid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isDefaultTimeZoneFor | Spain (except Canary Islands) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isDifferentFrom | Atlantic/Canary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isWidelyUsedIn | Iberian Peninsula (Spanish part) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalTimeIn | Spain (peninsular and Balearic territory) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linkedToCity | Madrid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linkedToCountryCapital | Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notUsedInRegion | Canary Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
| offsetFromUTCInSummer | +02:00 ⓘ |
| offsetFromUTCInWinter | +01:00 ⓘ |
| offsetType | fixed standard offset with DST ⓘ |
| olsonDatabaseName | Europe/Madrid ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageRegion | Spanish ⓘ |
| representativeCity | Madrid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| standardTimeAbbreviation | CET ⓘ |
| standardTimeName | Central European Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| standardUtcOffset | +01:00 ⓘ |
| timeFormatCommon | 24-hour clock ⓘ |
| timeZoneCategory | civil time ⓘ |
| timeZoneId | Europe/Madrid ⓘ |
| timeZoneRegionType | Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typicalBusinessHoursReference | Madrid local time ⓘ |
| usedInCity | Madrid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | Spain ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Balearic Islands
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
mainland Spain ⓘ |
| usesDstRule | European Union DST rules ⓘ |
| zoneFile | europe ⓘ |
| zoneTabRegionCode | ES ⓘ |
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: Europe/Madrid Description of subject: Europe/Madrid is the standard time zone used in most of mainland Spain, including Madrid, typically corresponding to Central European Time (CET) and Central European Summer Time (CEST).
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.