Brasília Time
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Brasília Time is the standard time zone used in Brazil’s capital and much of the country’s eastern region, typically set at UTC−03:00.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brasília Time canonical | 418 |
| Brasília time | 16 |
| Brasília Time (BRT) | 5 |
| America/Bahia | 1 |
| America/Sao_Paulo | 1 |
| Brasília Time (BRT) in most areas | 1 |
| Brasília Time (outside DST) | 1 |
| Brasília time (BRT or BRT/BRST depending on period) | 1 |
| Brasília time (BRT) | 1 |
| Brazilian Standard Time | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1103803 — 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: Brasília Time Context triple: [Rio Grande do Norte, timeZone, Brasília Time]
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A.
America/Bahia_Banderas
America/Bahia_Banderas is an IANA time zone identifier used for the Bahia de Banderas region in Mexico, aligning it with Central Time.
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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.
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.
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E.
Ecuador Time
Ecuador Time is the standard time zone used in mainland Ecuador, including cities such as Guayaquil, typically corresponding to UTC−05:00.
- 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: Brasília Time Target entity description: Brasília Time is the standard time zone used in Brazil’s capital and much of the country’s eastern region, typically set at UTC−03:00.
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A.
America/Bahia_Banderas
America/Bahia_Banderas is an IANA time zone identifier used for the Bahia de Banderas region in Mexico, aligning it with Central Time.
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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.
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.
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E.
Ecuador Time
Ecuador Time is the standard time zone used in mainland Ecuador, including cities such as Guayaquil, typically corresponding to UTC−05:00.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | time zone ⓘ |
| abbreviation | BRT ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
federal government schedules in Brazil
ⓘ
official time in Brazil’s capital ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| DSTstatus | Brazil does not currently observe daylight saving time ⓘ |
| followsDST | no ⓘ |
| hemisphere | Southern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| IANAtimeZoneId |
America/Sao_Paulo
ⓘ
linked to:
Brasília Time
|
| isAheadOf |
Acre Time
ⓘ
Amazon Time ⓘ
linked to:
Amazon Time (AMT)
|
| isBehind | UTC ⓘ |
| legalStatus | official time zone for Brazil’s capital ⓘ |
| observedIn |
Aracaju
ⓘ
Belo Horizonte ⓘ Campo Grande (parts historically, depending on law changes) ⓘ Curitiba ⓘ Florianópolis ⓘ Fortaleza ⓘ Goiânia ⓘ João Pessoa ⓘ Maceió ⓘ Natal ⓘ Porto Alegre ⓘ Recife ⓘ Rio de Janeiro ⓘ Salvador ⓘ São Paulo ⓘ Vitória ⓘ |
| offsetFromCoordinatedUniversalTime | −3 hours ⓘ |
| regionType | eastern region of Brazil ⓘ |
| standardTimeOf |
Brasília
ⓘ
Federal District of Brazil ⓘ
linked to:
Federal District (Brazil)
eastern Brazil ⓘ
linked to:
Northeast Region of Brazil
|
| timeNotation | 24-hour clock ⓘ |
| typicalUse | civil timekeeping in eastern Brazil ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Brazilian federal institutions
ⓘ
most major Brazilian cities on the Atlantic coast ⓘ |
| usedFor |
federal elections timing in Brazil
ⓘ
financial markets in Brazil ⓘ national television scheduling in Brazil ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Northeast Region of Brazil
ⓘ
South Region of Brazil ⓘ
linked to:
southern Brazil
Southeast Region of Brazil ⓘ parts of Center-West Region of Brazil ⓘ parts of North Region of Brazil ⓘ |
| UTCoffset | UTC−03:00 ⓘ |
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: Brasília Time Description of subject: Brasília Time is the standard time zone used in Brazil’s capital and much of the country’s eastern region, typically set at UTC−03:00.
Referenced by (446)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
linked to: Brasília Time
subject linked to:
Mato Grosso region of Brazil
linked to: Brasília Time
linked to: Brasília Time
linked to: Brasília Time
linked to: Brasília Time
linked to: Brasília Time
linked to: Brasília Time
subject linked to:
Jardim São Paulo
subject linked to:
Boa Viagem