Sri Lanka Standard Time
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Sri Lanka Standard Time is the time zone used throughout Sri Lanka, set at UTC+5:30.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sri Lanka Standard Time canonical | 161 |
| Asia/Colombo | 6 |
| Sri Lanka Standard Time (UTC+5:30) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T538422 — 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: Sri Lanka Standard Time Context triple: [Trincomalee, locatedInTimeZone, Sri Lanka Standard Time]
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A.
Indian Standard Time
Indian Standard Time is the time zone used throughout India, set at UTC+5:30.
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B.
Indochina Time
Indochina Time is the standard time zone (UTC+7) used in several Southeast Asian countries, including Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
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C.
New Zealand Standard Time
New Zealand Standard Time is the standard time zone observed in New Zealand, typically 12 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+12).
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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.
Malaysia Time
Malaysia Time is the standard time zone used throughout Malaysia, set eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
- 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: Sri Lanka Standard Time Target entity description: Sri Lanka Standard Time is the time zone used throughout Sri Lanka, set at UTC+5:30.
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A.
Indian Standard Time
Indian Standard Time is the time zone used throughout India, set at UTC+5:30.
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B.
Indochina Time
Indochina Time is the standard time zone (UTC+7) used in several Southeast Asian countries, including Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
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C.
New Zealand Standard Time
New Zealand Standard Time is the standard time zone observed in New Zealand, typically 12 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+12).
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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.
Malaysia Time
Malaysia Time is the standard time zone used throughout Malaysia, set eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | time zone ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SLST ⓘ |
| appliesToWholeCountry | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| countryUsedIn | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| followsSameOffsetAs |
India Standard Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Indian Standard Time
|
| IANAZoneIdentifier |
Asia/Colombo
ⓘ
linked to:
Sri Lanka Standard Time
|
| observesSameTimeAllYear | true ⓘ |
| offsetFromCoordinatedUniversalTimeInHours | +5.5 ⓘ |
| offsetFromGreenwichMeanTime | GMT+05:30 ⓘ |
| region | Asia ⓘ |
| standardTimeIn | Colombo ⓘ |
| timeNotationCommonlyUsed | 24-hour clock ⓘ |
| usedForCivilTimeIn | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | false ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | UTC+05:30 ⓘ |
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: Sri Lanka Standard Time Description of subject: Sri Lanka Standard Time is the time zone used throughout Sri Lanka, set at UTC+5:30.
Referenced by (168)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sri Lanka Standard Time
subject linked to:
Uva Province of Sri Lanka
subject linked to:
Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka
linked to: Sri Lanka Standard Time
linked to: Sri Lanka Standard Time