America/Merida
E94536
America/Merida is an IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Mérida and surrounding areas of Mexico within the Central Time Zone.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "America/Merida" | 1 |
| America/Merida canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T750437 — 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/Merida Context triple: [Central Time Zone, IANAIdentifier, America/Merida]
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A.
America/Belize
America/Belize is the IANA time zone identifier representing the standard time observed in Belize, corresponding to Central Standard Time without daylight saving changes.
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B.
America/Matamoros
America/Matamoros is the IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Matamoros, a city in northeastern Mexico near the U.S. border.
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C.
America/Monterrey
America/Monterrey is the IANA time zone identifier representing local time for Monterrey and parts of northeastern Mexico that observe Central Time.
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D.
America/Mexico_City
America/Mexico_City is the primary time zone used in Mexico City and much of central Mexico, corresponding to Central Standard Time with daylight saving adjustments.
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E.
America/El_Salvador
America/El_Salvador is the IANA time zone identifier representing local time in El Salvador, which observes Central Standard Time year-round without daylight saving changes.
- 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/Merida Target entity description: America/Merida is an IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Mérida and surrounding areas of Mexico within the Central Time Zone.
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A.
America/Belize
America/Belize is the IANA time zone identifier representing the standard time observed in Belize, corresponding to Central Standard Time without daylight saving changes.
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B.
America/Matamoros
America/Matamoros is the IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Matamoros, a city in northeastern Mexico near the U.S. border.
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C.
America/Monterrey
America/Monterrey is the IANA time zone identifier representing local time for Monterrey and parts of northeastern Mexico that observe Central Time.
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D.
America/Mexico_City
America/Mexico_City is the primary time zone used in Mexico City and much of central Mexico, corresponding to Central Standard Time with daylight saving adjustments.
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E.
America/El_Salvador
America/El_Salvador is the IANA time zone identifier representing local time in El Salvador, which observes Central Standard Time year-round without daylight saving changes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | IANA time zone identifier ⓘ |
| belongsToStandard |
IANA time zone database
ⓘ
surface form:
IANA Time Zone Database (Olson database)
|
| canonical | true ⓘ |
| city |
Mérida
ⓘ
surface form:
Merida
|
| continent | America ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| countryCode | MX ⓘ |
| databaseIntroducedIn | IANA tz database (historical version prior to 2010s; exact version varies) ⓘ |
| databaseKeyType | string identifier ⓘ |
| daylightTimeAbbreviation | CDT ⓘ |
| daylightUtcOffset | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| followsMexicanTimeLaw | true ⓘ |
| format | Area/Location ⓘ |
| governingBodyForRules | Government of Mexico ⓘ |
| ianaIdentifierString |
America/Merida
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
"America/Merida"
|
| ianaTimeZoneDatabase |
IANA time zone database
ⓘ
surface form:
tz database
|
| ianaZoneFileName | northamerica ⓘ |
| latitudeApprox | 20.97 N (city of Mérida) ⓘ |
| longitudeApprox | 89.62 W (city of Mérida) ⓘ |
| observesCentralDaylightTime | true ⓘ |
| observesCentralStandardTime | true ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
| primaryCity | Mérida ⓘ |
| representsTimeIn | Mérida ⓘ |
| standardTimeAbbreviation | CST ⓘ |
| standardUtcOffset | UTC−06:00 ⓘ |
| timeStandard | civil time ⓘ |
| timeZoneRegion | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| usedFor |
application scheduling
ⓘ
computer systems ⓘ operating systems ⓘ server configuration ⓘ |
| usedInStateOrRegion |
Campeche state
ⓘ
surface form:
Campeche
Quintana Roo ⓘ
surface form:
Quintana Roo (historically, before its own zone)
Yucatán state ⓘ
surface form:
Yucatán
|
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/Merida Description of subject: America/Merida is an IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Mérida and surrounding areas of Mexico within the Central Time Zone.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
"America/Merida"