Venezuelan Standard Time
E367426
Venezuelan Standard Time is the time zone used throughout Venezuela, corresponding to UTC−4 hours.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Venezuelan Standard Time canonical | 68 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3541879 — 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: Venezuelan Standard Time Context triple: [Ciudad Bolívar, timeZone, Venezuelan 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.
Cuba Daylight Time
Cuba Daylight Time is the daylight saving time observed in Cuba, typically four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−4).
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C.
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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D.
Ecuador Time
Ecuador Time is the standard time zone used in mainland Ecuador, including cities such as Guayaquil, typically corresponding to UTC−05:00.
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E.
Jamaica Standard Time
Jamaica Standard Time is the time zone observed throughout Jamaica, corresponding to UTC−5 without daylight saving time.
- 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: Venezuelan Standard Time Target entity description: Venezuelan Standard Time is the time zone used throughout Venezuela, corresponding to UTC−4 hours.
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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.
Cuba Daylight Time
Cuba Daylight Time is the daylight saving time observed in Cuba, typically four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−4).
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C.
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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D.
Ecuador Time
Ecuador Time is the standard time zone used in mainland Ecuador, including cities such as Guayaquil, typically corresponding to UTC−05:00.
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E.
Jamaica Standard Time
Jamaica Standard Time is the time zone observed throughout Jamaica, corresponding to UTC−5 without daylight saving time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | time zone ⓘ |
| abbreviation | VET ⓘ |
| appliesToIslands | yes ⓘ |
| appliesToMainland | yes ⓘ |
| countryUsedIn | Venezuela ⓘ |
| governingAuthority | Government of Venezuela ⓘ |
| IANAZoneIdentifier | America/Caracas ⓘ |
| isFixedOffset | true ⓘ |
| isSingleTimeZoneCountry | true ⓘ |
| isStandardTime | true ⓘ |
| isUniformAcrossCountry | true ⓘ |
| isWholeHourOffset | true ⓘ |
| linkedCountryISOCode | VE ⓘ |
| observedInCapital | Caracas ⓘ |
| observesDSTCurrently | false ⓘ |
| offsetChangeToUTCMinus4Implemented | 2016-05-01 ⓘ |
| offsetFromGreenwichMeanTime | −4 hours ⓘ |
| previousStandardOffset | UTC−04:30 ⓘ |
| region | South America ⓘ |
| timeInHoursBehindUTC | 4 ⓘ |
| timeNotationCommonlyUsed | 24-hour clock ⓘ |
| typicalNotation | UTC-4 ⓘ |
| usedForCivilTime | yes ⓘ |
| usedForLegalTimeIn | Venezuela ⓘ |
| usedInBroadcastSchedules | yes ⓘ |
| usedInTelecommunications | yes ⓘ |
| usedInTransportTimetables | yes ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | no ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | 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: Venezuelan Standard Time Description of subject: Venezuelan Standard Time is the time zone used throughout Venezuela, corresponding to UTC−4 hours.
Referenced by (68)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ocumare del Tuy, Venezuela
subject linked to:
Valencia
subject linked to:
state of Monagas
subject linked to:
Guatire, Miranda, Venezuela
subject linked to:
Gran Sabana municipality