Pyongyang Time
E133096
Pyongyang Time is the official standard time used in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, and throughout the country.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pyongyang Time canonical | 2 |
| Asia/Pyongyang | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1171458 — 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: Pyongyang Time Context triple: [Pyongyang, timeZone, Pyongyang Time]
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A.
Pyongyang
Pyongyang is the capital and largest city of North Korea, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center.
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B.
Korea Standard Time
Korea Standard Time is the time zone used on the Korean Peninsula, set at UTC+9 hours.
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C.
Neryungri
Neryungri is a major coal-mining and industrial city in southeastern Siberia, Russia, known as one of the key urban centers of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).
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D.
Korea Exchange
Korea Exchange is South Korea’s main securities and derivatives marketplace, serving as the country’s primary stock exchange for major companies such as Samsung.
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E.
Moscow Time
Moscow Time is the standard time zone used in Moscow and much of western Russia, corresponding to UTC+3 year-round.
- 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: Pyongyang Time Target entity description: Pyongyang Time is the official standard time used in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, and throughout the country.
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A.
Pyongyang
Pyongyang is the capital and largest city of North Korea, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center.
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B.
Korea Standard Time
Korea Standard Time is the time zone used on the Korean Peninsula, set at UTC+9 hours.
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C.
Neryungri
Neryungri is a major coal-mining and industrial city in southeastern Siberia, Russia, known as one of the key urban centers of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).
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D.
Korea Exchange
Korea Exchange is South Korea’s main securities and derivatives marketplace, serving as the country’s primary stock exchange for major companies such as Samsung.
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E.
Moscow Time
Moscow Time is the standard time zone used in Moscow and much of western Russia, corresponding to UTC+3 year-round.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
standard time
ⓘ
time zone ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Pyongyang
ⓘ
territory of North Korea ⓘ |
| capitalCityUsing | Pyongyang ⓘ |
| country | North Korea ⓘ |
| DSTObserved | false ⓘ |
| followsStandard | Korea Standard Time ⓘ |
| geographicalScope | entire territory claimed by North Korea ⓘ |
| governingAuthority |
Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
ⓘ
linked to:
North Korean government
|
| historicalChange | North Korea has changed its standard time offset in the 21st century ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | no ⓘ |
| offsetFromCoordinatedUniversalTime | +9 hours ⓘ |
| offsetFromJapanStandardTime | 0 hours ⓘ |
| offsetFromKoreaStandardTime | 0 hours ⓘ |
| primaryCity | Pyongyang ⓘ |
| region | East Asia ⓘ |
| sameTimeAs |
Japan Standard Time
ⓘ
Korea Standard Time ⓘ |
| timeNotation | 24-hour clock ⓘ |
| timeZoneAbbreviation | KST ⓘ |
| usedBy |
government of North Korea
ⓘ
institutions in North Korea ⓘ residents of North Korea ⓘ |
| usedFor |
civil time in North Korea
ⓘ
official time in North Korea ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
administrative activities in North Korea
ⓘ
broadcast schedules in North Korea ⓘ transport schedules in North Korea ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | UTC+09:00 ⓘ |
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: Pyongyang Time Description of subject: Pyongyang Time is the official standard time used in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, and throughout the country.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Pyongyang Time