World Time Clock
E569401
The World Time Clock is a large, rotating timepiece and popular meeting point in Berlin’s Alexanderplatz that displays the current time in cities around the globe.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| World Clock | 2 |
| Urania World Clock | 1 |
| World Time Clock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6110902 — 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: World Time Clock Context triple: [Alexanderplatz, hasLandmark, World Time Clock]
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A.
OurTime
OurTime is an online dating platform specifically designed to help singles over 50 connect for relationships and companionship.
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B.
Time Zone API
Time Zone API is a Google Maps web service that provides time zone information for specified locations based on geographic coordinates.
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C.
Clock and Region
Clock and Region is a Windows Control Panel section that lets users configure date, time, time zones, and regional settings such as formats and location.
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D.
GMT360
GMT360 is General Motors' mid-size SUV platform used in the early 2000s for body-on-frame sport utility vehicles across several of its brands.
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E.
Kaliningrad Time
Kaliningrad Time is the time standard used in Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast, corresponding to UTC+2 and aligning with Eastern European Time without daylight saving changes.
- 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: World Time Clock Target entity description: The World Time Clock is a large, rotating timepiece and popular meeting point in Berlin’s Alexanderplatz that displays the current time in cities around the globe.
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A.
OurTime
OurTime is an online dating platform specifically designed to help singles over 50 connect for relationships and companionship.
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B.
Time Zone API
Time Zone API is a Google Maps web service that provides time zone information for specified locations based on geographic coordinates.
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C.
Clock and Region
Clock and Region is a Windows Control Panel section that lets users configure date, time, time zones, and regional settings such as formats and location.
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D.
GMT360
GMT360 is General Motors' mid-size SUV platform used in the early 2000s for body-on-frame sport utility vehicles across several of its brands.
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E.
Kaliningrad Time
Kaliningrad Time is the time standard used in Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast, corresponding to UTC+2 and aligning with Eastern European Time without daylight saving changes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
kinetic sculpture
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landmark ⓘ meeting point ⓘ public clock ⓘ |
| architect | Erich John ⓘ |
| builtFor | redesign of Alexanderplatz ⓘ |
| city | Berlin ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1969 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1968 ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
icon of Berlin cityscape
ⓘ
symbol of Alexanderplatz ⓘ |
| depicts | solar system ⓘ |
| designer | Erich John ⓘ |
| district | Mitte ⓘ |
| era | GDR period ⓘ |
| function |
displays current time in multiple time zones
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serves as public meeting point ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
city names
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mechanical rotation mechanism ⓘ rotating cylinder ⓘ time zone markings ⓘ world map ⓘ |
| hasPart |
base platform
ⓘ
central column ⓘ planetary model ⓘ upper rotating ring ⓘ |
| height | 10 meters ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | protected monument ⓘ |
| languageOfCityNames | German ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alexanderplatz
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Berlin ⓘ Germany ⓘ |
| maintenance | regularly renovated ⓘ |
| material |
aluminium
ⓘ
steel ⓘ |
| nearby |
Alexanderplatz station
ⓘ
Fernsehturm Berlin ⓘ
linked to:
Berlin TV Tower (Fernsehturm)
|
| numberOfTimeZonesDisplayed | 24 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1969-09-30 ⓘ |
| politicalContext | East Germany ⓘ |
| popularMeetingPoint | yes ⓘ |
| rotationPeriod | 24 hours ⓘ |
| shape | cylindrical ⓘ |
| status | in use ⓘ |
| timeIndicationMethod | analog ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
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: World Time Clock Description of subject: The World Time Clock is a large, rotating timepiece and popular meeting point in Berlin’s Alexanderplatz that displays the current time in cities around the globe.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: World Time Clock
linked to: World Time Clock
linked to: World Time Clock