Gulf Standard Time
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Gulf Standard Time is the time zone used by several Gulf countries, including the United Arab Emirates, which is four hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+4) and does not observe daylight saving time.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gulf Standard Time canonical | 206 |
| Asia/Dubai | 2 |
| Asia/Muscat | 2 |
| Asia/Dubai time | 1 |
| Gulf Standard Time (GST) | 1 |
| Gulf Standard Time (UTC+4) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T145622 — 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: Gulf Standard Time Context triple: [Dubai, locatedInTimeZone, Gulf Standard Time]
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A.
Cuba Standard Time
Cuba Standard Time is the standard time zone used throughout the island nation of Cuba, typically corresponding to UTC−05:00.
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B.
Indian Standard Time
Indian Standard Time is the time zone used throughout India, set at UTC+5:30.
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C.
Central Africa Time
Central Africa Time is a time zone used by several countries in central and southern Africa, typically two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+2) without daylight saving time.
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D.
Georgia Standard Time
Georgia Standard Time is the time zone used throughout the country of Georgia, set at UTC+4 with no daylight saving time.
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E.
GMT
GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, historically used as the international civil time standard and the basis for modern time zones.
- 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: Gulf Standard Time Target entity description: Gulf Standard Time is the time zone used by several Gulf countries, including the United Arab Emirates, which is four hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+4) and does not observe daylight saving time.
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A.
Cuba Standard Time
Cuba Standard Time is the standard time zone used throughout the island nation of Cuba, typically corresponding to UTC−05:00.
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B.
Indian Standard Time
Indian Standard Time is the time zone used throughout India, set at UTC+5:30.
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C.
Central Africa Time
Central Africa Time is a time zone used by several countries in central and southern Africa, typically two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+2) without daylight saving time.
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D.
Georgia Standard Time
Georgia Standard Time is the time zone used throughout the country of Georgia, set at UTC+4 with no daylight saving time.
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E.
GMT
GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, historically used as the international civil time standard and the basis for modern time zones.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | time zone ⓘ |
| abbreviation | GST ⓘ |
| doesNotUse | daylight saving time ⓘ |
| DSTObserved | false ⓘ |
| hasIANAIdentifier |
Asia/Dubai
ⓘ
linked to:
Gulf Standard Time
Asia/Muscat ⓘ
linked to:
Gulf Standard Time
|
| hoursAheadOfUTC | 4 ⓘ |
| isAheadOf | Coordinated Universal Time ⓘ |
| isFixedOffsetAllYear | true ⓘ |
| isStandardTimeFor |
Abu Dhabi
ⓘ
Bahrain ⓘ Dubai ⓘ Oman ⓘ Qatar ⓘ Ras Al Khaimah ⓘ United Arab Emirates ⓘ |
| isUsedForCivilTime | yes ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | no ⓘ |
| offsetFromCoordinatedUniversalTime | 4 hours ahead of UTC ⓘ |
| regionType | Gulf Cooperation Council area (partially) ⓘ |
| timeNotation | 24-hour clock (commonly used) ⓘ |
| timeZoneName | Gulf Standard Time ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Bahrain
ⓘ
Oman ⓘ Qatar ⓘ United Arab Emirates ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Persian Gulf region
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Arabia
|
| UTCOffset |
+4 hours
ⓘ
UTC+04:00 ⓘ |
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: Gulf Standard Time Description of subject: Gulf Standard Time is the time zone used by several Gulf countries, including the United Arab Emirates, which is four hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+4) and does not observe daylight saving time.
Referenced by (213)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Armenia Time (AMT)
linked to: Gulf Standard Time
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