America/Glace_Bay
E951433
America/Glace_Bay is an IANA time zone identifier representing the local time for Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, in the Atlantic Time Zone.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| America/Glace_Bay canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11838515 — 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/Glace_Bay Context triple: [ADT, hasIANAExampleZone, America/Glace_Bay]
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A.
America/Toronto
America/Toronto is the primary Eastern Time Zone designation used for major cities in Ontario, Canada, including Toronto and Montreal.
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B.
America/Winnipeg
America/Winnipeg is the IANA time zone identifier representing the local time for Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in the Central Time Zone.
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C.
America/Regina
America/Regina is the IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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D.
America/Yellowknife
America/Yellowknife is the IANA time zone identifier representing the Mountain Time observed in Yellowknife, the capital city of Canada’s Northwest Territories.
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E.
America/Detroit
America/Detroit is the IANA time zone identifier representing Eastern Time as observed in Detroit and much of the U.S. state of Michigan.
- 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/Glace_Bay Target entity description: America/Glace_Bay is an IANA time zone identifier representing the local time for Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, in the Atlantic Time Zone.
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A.
America/Toronto
America/Toronto is the primary Eastern Time Zone designation used for major cities in Ontario, Canada, including Toronto and Montreal.
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B.
America/Winnipeg
America/Winnipeg is the IANA time zone identifier representing the local time for Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in the Central Time Zone.
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C.
America/Regina
America/Regina is the IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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D.
America/Yellowknife
America/Yellowknife is the IANA time zone identifier representing the Mountain Time observed in Yellowknife, the capital city of Canada’s Northwest Territories.
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E.
America/Detroit
America/Detroit is the IANA time zone identifier representing Eastern Time as observed in Detroit and much of the U.S. state of Michigan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | IANA time zone identifier ⓘ |
| areaComponent | America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Time zones of Canada
ⓘ
Time zones of North America ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| databaseFile | zoneinfo ⓘ |
| dataFormatIdentifier | TZDB name ⓘ |
| daylightTimeAbbreviation | ADT ⓘ |
| daylightTimeUTCOffset | UTC−03:00 ⓘ |
| governingAuthority | IANA Time Zone Database project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalRules | true ⓘ |
| IANAZoneDatabase | tz database NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| IANAZoneNameFormat | Area/Location ⓘ |
| isCanonicalZone | true ⓘ |
| linkedLocation | Glace Bay, Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locationComponent | Glace_Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
| olsonIdentifier | America/Glace_Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse | civil timekeeping ⓘ |
| regionTimeZoneType | city-based zone ⓘ |
| representsTimeOf | Glace Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| standardTimeAbbreviation | AST ⓘ |
| standardTimeUTCOffset | UTC−04:00 ⓘ |
| subdivision | Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeNotation |
12-hour clock (common in local use)
ⓘ
24-hour clock (common in data formats) ⓘ |
| timeZoneRegion | Atlantic Time Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInOperatingSystems |
BSD variants
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Linux NERFINISHED ⓘ Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| usedInProgrammingLanguages |
Java
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
JavaScript NERFINISHED ⓘ Python NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesGregorianCalendar | true ⓘ |
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/Glace_Bay Description of subject: America/Glace_Bay is an IANA time zone identifier representing the local time for Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, in the Atlantic Time Zone.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.