Philippine Standard Time
E90012
Philippine Standard Time is the official time zone of the Philippines, observed as UTC+8 without daylight saving time.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Philippine Standard Time canonical | 1,659 |
| Philippine Time | 14 |
| Asia/Manila | 10 |
| Philippine Standard Time (PST) | 2 |
| Central Indonesian Time | 1 |
| Philippine Standard Time region | 1 |
| Philippine Time Zone | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T762415 — 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: Philippine Standard Time Context triple: [Mactan, timeZone, Philippine Standard Time]
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A.
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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B.
Chamorro Standard Time
Chamorro Standard Time is the time zone used in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, corresponding to UTC+10:00.
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C.
Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time
Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time is the time zone used by Hawaii and part of the Aleutian Islands, typically 10 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−10:00).
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D.
Western Indonesian Time
Western Indonesian Time is the standard time zone used in western parts of Indonesia, including major regions such as Java and Sumatra, set at UTC+7.
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E.
Solomon Islands Time
Solomon Islands Time is the standard time zone used throughout the Solomon Islands, including the capital Honiara, and is 11 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+11).
- 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: Philippine Standard Time Target entity description: Philippine Standard Time is the official time zone of the Philippines, observed as UTC+8 without daylight saving time.
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A.
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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B.
Chamorro Standard Time
Chamorro Standard Time is the time zone used in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, corresponding to UTC+10:00.
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C.
Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time
Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time is the time zone used by Hawaii and part of the Aleutian Islands, typically 10 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−10:00).
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D.
Western Indonesian Time
Western Indonesian Time is the standard time zone used in western parts of Indonesia, including major regions such as Java and Sumatra, set at UTC+7.
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E.
Solomon Islands Time
Solomon Islands Time is the standard time zone used throughout the Solomon Islands, including the capital Honiara, and is 11 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+11).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | time zone ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
PST
ⓘ
PhST ⓘ |
| basedOn | Coordinated Universal Time ⓘ |
| coincidesWith |
China Standard Time
ⓘ
Hong Kong Time ⓘ Singapore Standard Time ⓘ
linked to:
Malaysia Time
Western Australia Standard Time (UTC+8) ⓘ
linked to:
Australian Western Standard Time
|
| coordinatedBy | Department of Science and Technology (Philippines) ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| definedBy | Philippine law ⓘ |
| DSTObserved | false ⓘ |
| DSTPolicy | no seasonal clock changes ⓘ |
| IANAZoneIdentifier |
Asia/Manila
ⓘ
linked to:
Philippine Standard Time
|
| legalStatus | official time of the Philippines ⓘ |
| observedIn |
Luzon
ⓘ
Mindanao ⓘ Visayas ⓘ all regions of the Philippines ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | no ⓘ |
| offsetFromCoordinatedUniversalTime | 8 hours ahead ⓘ |
| offsetNotation | UTC+8 ⓘ |
| previousDSTUsage | none in modern practice ⓘ |
| region | Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Philippine Time Act of 2013 ⓘ |
| standardName | Philippine Standard Time ⓘ |
| timeNotation |
12-hour clock (common use)
ⓘ
24-hour clock (official) ⓘ |
| timeReference | Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration ⓘ |
| timeReferenceAbbreviation | PAGASA ⓘ |
| timeStandardType | single national time zone ⓘ |
| usedFor |
broadcast scheduling in the Philippines
ⓘ
business hours in the Philippines ⓘ official government timekeeping in the Philippines ⓘ transport timetables in the Philippines ⓘ |
| usesAsCivilTime | Philippines ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +08:00 ⓘ |
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: Philippine Standard Time Description of subject: Philippine Standard Time is the official time zone of the Philippines, observed as UTC+8 without daylight saving time.
Referenced by (1,688)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Philippine Standard Time
linked to: Philippine Standard Time
linked to: Philippine Standard Time
subject linked to:
PST
Far Eastern University – Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation
→
locatedInTimeZone
→
Philippine Standard Time
ⓘ
subject linked to:
Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines
subject linked to:
BSP
subject linked to:
town of Balanga
subject linked to:
town of Bagac
subject linked to:
Padre Faura Street, Ermita, Manila, Philippines