Arabia Standard Time
E82112
Arabia Standard Time is the time zone used by several countries on the Arabian Peninsula, including Saudi Arabia, typically corresponding to UTC+3 with no daylight saving time.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arabia Standard Time canonical | 470 |
| Arabian Standard Time | 10 |
| Asia/Kuwait | 2 |
| Asia/Riyadh | 2 |
| Arabia Standard Time (Bahrain) | 1 |
| Asia/Baghdad | 1 |
| Asia/Qatar | 1 |
| Jordan Standard Time | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T656713 — 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: Arabia Standard Time Context triple: [Arabian Desert, timeZone, Arabia Standard Time]
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A.
Gulf Standard Time
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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B.
Iran Standard Time
Iran Standard Time is the time zone used throughout Iran, set at UTC+3:30 and observed in cities such as Tehran.
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C.
Azerbaijan Time
Azerbaijan Time is the standard time zone used throughout Azerbaijan, typically four hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+4).
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D.
Israel Standard Time
Israel Standard Time is the standard time zone used in Israel, typically two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+2) and three hours ahead during daylight saving time.
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E.
East Africa Time
East Africa Time is the standard time zone used by several countries in the eastern part of the African continent, typically three hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+3).
- 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: Arabia Standard Time Target entity description: Arabia Standard Time is the time zone used by several countries on the Arabian Peninsula, including Saudi Arabia, typically corresponding to UTC+3 with no daylight saving time.
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A.
Gulf Standard Time
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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B.
Iran Standard Time
Iran Standard Time is the time zone used throughout Iran, set at UTC+3:30 and observed in cities such as Tehran.
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C.
Azerbaijan Time
Azerbaijan Time is the standard time zone used throughout Azerbaijan, typically four hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+4).
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D.
Israel Standard Time
Israel Standard Time is the standard time zone used in Israel, typically two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+2) and three hours ahead during daylight saving time.
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E.
East Africa Time
East Africa Time is the standard time zone used by several countries in the eastern part of the African continent, typically three hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+3).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | time zone ⓘ |
| abbreviation | AST ⓘ |
| coincidesWith |
Eastern European Time during winter
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern European Time
Moscow Time during parts of the year ⓘ |
| DSTObservedHistoricallyIn |
Iraq
ⓘ
Jordan ⓘ Lebanon ⓘ Palestine ⓘ Saudi Arabia ⓘ Syria ⓘ |
| IANAZoneExample |
Asia/Aden
ⓘ
Asia/Amman ⓘ
linked to:
Amman
Asia/Baghdad ⓘ
linked to:
Arabia Standard Time
Asia/Bahrain ⓘ Asia/Beirut ⓘ Asia/Damascus ⓘ Asia/Gaza ⓘ Asia/Hebron ⓘ Asia/Kuwait ⓘ Asia/Qatar ⓘ
linked to:
Arabia Standard Time
Asia/Riyadh ⓘ
linked to:
Arabia Standard Time
|
| observedInCountry |
Aden
ⓘ
Amman ⓘ Baghdad ⓘ Bahrain ⓘ Beirut ⓘ Damascus ⓘ Doha ⓘ Gaza ⓘ
linked to:
Gaza Strip
Hebron ⓘ Iraq ⓘ Jordan ⓘ Kuwait ⓘ Kuwait City ⓘ Lebanon ⓘ Manama ⓘ Palestine ⓘ Qatar ⓘ Riyadh ⓘ Saudi Arabia ⓘ Syria ⓘ Yemen ⓘ |
| region |
Arabian Peninsula
ⓘ
Middle East ⓘ |
| timeNotation | 24-hour clock (most countries) ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | no ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | UTC+03:00 ⓘ |
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: Arabia Standard Time Description of subject: Arabia Standard Time is the time zone used by several countries on the Arabian Peninsula, including Saudi Arabia, typically corresponding to UTC+3 with no daylight saving time.
Referenced by (488)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Shura Council
linked to: Arabia Standard Time
linked to: Arabia Standard Time
linked to: Arabia Standard Time
linked to: Arabia Standard Time
subject linked to:
Mubarak Al-Kabeer