Time Zone API
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Time Zone API is a Google Maps web service that provides time zone information for specified locations based on geographic coordinates.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Google Maps Time Zone API | 1 |
| Time Zone API canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T576893 — 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: Time Zone API Context triple: [Google Maps, supportsAPI, Time Zone API]
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A.
North American time zones
North American time zones are the standardized regional time divisions used across countries in North America, including zones such as Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific Time.
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B.
Yukon Time Zone
The Yukon Time Zone is a North American time zone used primarily in Canada's Yukon territory, aligning year-round with Pacific Daylight Time.
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C.
Time Europe
Time Europe is the European regional edition of the American news magazine Time, tailored to cover international and European news for readers across the continent.
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D.
Israel Daylight Time
Israel Daylight Time is the daylight saving time observed in Israel, typically used during the summer months when clocks are set one hour ahead of standard 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: Time Zone API Target entity description: 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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A.
North American time zones
North American time zones are the standardized regional time divisions used across countries in North America, including zones such as Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific Time.
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B.
Yukon Time Zone
The Yukon Time Zone is a North American time zone used primarily in Canada's Yukon territory, aligning year-round with Pacific Daylight Time.
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C.
Time Europe
Time Europe is the European regional edition of the American news magazine Time, tailored to cover international and European news for readers across the continent.
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D.
Israel Daylight Time
Israel Daylight Time is the daylight saving time observed in Israel, typically used during the summer months when clocks are set one hour ahead of standard 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 (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Google Maps Platform API
ⓘ
web service ⓘ |
| accessProtocol |
HTTP
ⓘ
HTTPS ⓘ |
| authenticationMethod | API key in URL parameter ⓘ |
| belongsToCategory |
location-based services
ⓘ
mapping APIs ⓘ |
| billingModel | pay-as-you-go ⓘ |
| developer | Google ⓘ |
| documentationURL | https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/timezone ⓘ |
| hasParameter |
language
ⓘ
location ⓘ timestamp ⓘ |
| hasPurpose | provide time zone information ⓘ |
| hasQuota | usage limits per API key ⓘ |
| inputType |
Unix timestamp
ⓘ
latitude ⓘ longitude ⓘ |
| operatesOn | global geographic coverage ⓘ |
| outputType | structured JSON response ⓘ |
| partOf |
Google Maps Platform Web Services
ⓘ
linked to:
Google Maps
|
| providedBy |
Google Maps Platform
ⓘ
linked to:
Google Maps
|
| relatedTo |
Geocoding API
ⓘ
Maps JavaScript API ⓘ
linked to:
Maps Platform Maps Library
Places API ⓘ |
| requires |
API key
ⓘ
Google Cloud project ⓘ
linked to:
Google Cloud
|
| returns |
DST offset from UTC
ⓘ
raw offset from UTC ⓘ time zone ID ⓘ time zone data ⓘ time zone name ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
Google Cloud billing
ⓘ
Google Maps Platform Terms of Service ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
daylight saving time adjustments
ⓘ
historical time zone lookup via timestamp ⓘ localization of time zone names ⓘ |
| supportsFormat | JSON ⓘ |
| supportsUseCase |
backend services
ⓘ
mobile applications ⓘ web applications ⓘ |
| usedFor |
converting timestamps between time zones
ⓘ
displaying local time for locations ⓘ logging and analytics timestamp normalization ⓘ scheduling across time zones ⓘ travel and booking applications ⓘ |
| usesInput | geographic coordinates ⓘ |
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: Time Zone API Description of subject: Time Zone API is a Google Maps web service that provides time zone information for specified locations based on geographic coordinates.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Time Zone API