Peru Time
E60001
Peru Time is the standard time zone used throughout Peru, corresponding to UTC−05:00 without daylight saving time.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peru Time canonical | 225 |
| America/Lima | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T478880 — 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: Peru Time Context triple: [Machu Picchu, timeZone, Peru Time]
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A.
Ecuador Time
Ecuador Time is the standard time zone used in mainland Ecuador, including cities such as Guayaquil, typically corresponding to UTC−05:00.
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B.
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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C.
Chile Summer Time
Chile Summer Time is the daylight saving time period used in Chile, during which clocks are advanced one hour to provide extended evening daylight compared to standard time.
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D.
Peru
Peru is a South American country known for its rich Inca heritage, diverse landscapes from Andes mountains to Amazon rainforest, and the iconic archaeological site of Machu Picchu.
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E.
Easter Island Standard Time
Easter Island Standard Time is the time zone used on Chile’s Easter Island, typically four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−6) outside of daylight saving periods.
- 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: Peru Time Target entity description: Peru Time is the standard time zone used throughout Peru, corresponding to UTC−05:00 without daylight saving time.
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A.
Ecuador Time
Ecuador Time is the standard time zone used in mainland Ecuador, including cities such as Guayaquil, typically corresponding to UTC−05:00.
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B.
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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C.
Chile Summer Time
Chile Summer Time is the daylight saving time period used in Chile, during which clocks are advanced one hour to provide extended evening daylight compared to standard time.
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D.
Peru
Peru is a South American country known for its rich Inca heritage, diverse landscapes from Andes mountains to Amazon rainforest, and the iconic archaeological site of Machu Picchu.
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E.
Easter Island Standard Time
Easter Island Standard Time is the time zone used on Chile’s Easter Island, typically four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−6) outside of daylight saving periods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
standard time
ⓘ
time zone ⓘ |
| appliesTo | entire territory of Peru ⓘ |
| coincidesWith |
America/Bogota
ⓘ
surface form:
Colombia Time (COT)
Cuba Standard Time ⓘ
surface form:
Cuba Standard Time (when Cuba not on DST)
Eastern Standard Time in parts of North America during winter ⓘ Ecuador Time ⓘ
surface form:
Ecuador Time (ECT, mainland)
Eastern Standard Time (Panama) ⓘ
surface form:
Panama Time
|
| countryUsedIn | Peru ⓘ |
| coversCapitalCity | Lima ⓘ |
| DSTEndRule | not applicable ⓘ |
| DSTObserved | false ⓘ |
| DSTStartRule | not applicable ⓘ |
| followsDSTPolicy | no seasonal clock changes ⓘ |
| governingAuthority | Government of Peru ⓘ |
| IANAZoneIdentifier | America/Lima ⓘ |
| legalStatus | official time of Peru ⓘ |
| observedAllYear | yes ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | no ⓘ |
| offsetFromUTCInMinutes | −300 ⓘ |
| offsetHours | −5 ⓘ |
| region | South America ⓘ |
| sameAsTimeZone |
Eastern Standard Time (Panama)
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Standard Time (without DST)
|
| timeNotation | 24-hour clock (official) ⓘ |
| typicalAbbreviation | PET ⓘ |
| usedBySector |
broadcasting in Peru
ⓘ
business in Peru ⓘ Government of Peru ⓘ
surface form:
government of Peru
transportation schedules in Peru ⓘ |
| usedFor | civil time in Peru ⓘ |
| usedInCity |
Arequipa
ⓘ
Ayacucho ⓘ Chiclayo ⓘ Chimbote ⓘ Cusco ⓘ Huancayo ⓘ Ica ⓘ Iquitos ⓘ Puno ⓘ
surface form:
Juliaca
Moquegua ⓘ Piura ⓘ Pucallpa ⓘ Puno ⓘ Tacna ⓘ Tarapoto ⓘ Trujillo ⓘ Tumbes ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
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: Peru Time Description of subject: Peru Time is the standard time zone used throughout Peru, corresponding to UTC−05:00 without daylight saving time.
Referenced by (231)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
America/Lima
subject surface form:
Chalhuanca