Africa/Cairo
E1032108
Africa/Cairo is the time zone corresponding to Eastern European Time (UTC+2) used primarily in Egypt, including its capital, Cairo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Africa/Cairo canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13307086 — 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: Africa/Cairo Context triple: [El Sebaia, locatedInTimeZone, Africa/Cairo]
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A.
Tanta
Tanta is a small Andean town in Peru known for its high-altitude landscapes and traditional rural life within the Nor Yauyos-Cochas scenic reserve.
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B.
Tanta
Tanta is a major city in northern Egypt that serves as an important commercial and transportation hub in the Nile Delta.
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C.
Mansouriya
Mansouriya is a residential district in Kuwait City known for its central location within the Al Asimah Governorate.
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D.
Sharq
Sharq is a prominent commercial and administrative district in Kuwait City known for its waterfront developments, shopping centers, and modern urban landscape.
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E.
Cairo east bank
Cairo east bank is the main urban side of Egypt’s capital city, hosting many of Cairo’s historic districts, government institutions, and dense residential neighborhoods along the eastern shore of the Nile.
- 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: Africa/Cairo Target entity description: Africa/Cairo is the time zone corresponding to Eastern European Time (UTC+2) used primarily in Egypt, including its capital, Cairo.
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A.
Tanta
Tanta is a small Andean town in Peru known for its high-altitude landscapes and traditional rural life within the Nor Yauyos-Cochas scenic reserve.
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B.
Tanta
Tanta is a major city in northern Egypt that serves as an important commercial and transportation hub in the Nile Delta.
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C.
Mansouriya
Mansouriya is a residential district in Kuwait City known for its central location within the Al Asimah Governorate.
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D.
Sharq
Sharq is a prominent commercial and administrative district in Kuwait City known for its waterfront developments, shopping centers, and modern urban landscape.
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E.
Cairo east bank
Cairo east bank is the main urban side of Egypt’s capital city, hosting many of Cairo’s historic districts, government institutions, and dense residential neighborhoods along the eastern shore of the Nile.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IANA time zone identifier
ⓘ
time zone ⓘ |
| capitalCityOfObservedCountry | Cairo ⓘ |
| country | Egypt ⓘ |
| dstTimeRelation | 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time ⓘ |
| format | Area/Location ⓘ |
| ianaArea | Africa ⓘ |
| ianaLocation | Cairo ⓘ |
| ianaZoneName | Africa/Cairo ⓘ |
| latitudeReferenceCity | Cairo ⓘ |
| linkedToCapitalOf | Egypt ⓘ |
| longitudeReferenceCity | Cairo ⓘ |
| observedIn |
Cairo
ⓘ
Egypt ⓘ |
| observesCountryCode | EG ⓘ |
| primaryUse | civil time in Egypt ⓘ |
| principalCity | Cairo ⓘ |
| regionType | Africa ⓘ |
| standardTimeRelation | 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time ⓘ |
| timeZoneAbbreviationDaylight | EEST ⓘ |
| timeZoneAbbreviationStandard | EET ⓘ |
| timeZoneCity | Cairo ⓘ |
| timeZoneDatabase |
tz database
ⓘ
linked to:
IANA time zone database
|
| timeZoneNameDaylight | Eastern European Summer Time ⓘ |
| timeZoneNameStandard | Eastern European Time ⓘ |
| timeZoneRegion | Africa ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +02:00 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetDaylightSavingTime | +03:00 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetStandardTime | +02:00 ⓘ |
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: Africa/Cairo Description of subject: Africa/Cairo is the time zone corresponding to Eastern European Time (UTC+2) used primarily in Egypt, including its capital, Cairo.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.