Eastern Standard Time (Panama)
E113554
Eastern Standard Time (Panama) is the year-round time standard used in Panama, corresponding to UTC−5 without daylight saving time.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eastern Standard Time | 6 |
| Eastern Standard Time (Panama) canonical | 4 |
| Eastern Standard Time (no DST) | 2 |
| Eastern Standard Time (no daylight saving) | 2 |
| Eastern Standard Time (without DST) | 1 |
| Panama Time | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T964579 — 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: Eastern Standard Time (Panama) Context triple: [Yaviza, timeZone, Eastern Standard Time (Panama)]
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A.
America/Belize
America/Belize is the IANA time zone identifier representing the standard time observed in Belize, corresponding to Central Standard Time without daylight saving changes.
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B.
Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone is a standard time zone used by the eastern portion of North America, including major U.S. cities such as New York and Washington, D.C.
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C.
America/Managua
America/Managua is the IANA time zone identifier representing local time in Managua, the capital city of Nicaragua.
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D.
Atlantic Time Zone
The Atlantic Time Zone is a North American time zone used in eastern Canada and parts of the Caribbean, typically one hour ahead of Eastern Time.
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E.
Jamaica Standard Time
Jamaica Standard Time is the time zone observed throughout Jamaica, corresponding to UTC−5 without daylight saving time.
- 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: Eastern Standard Time (Panama) Target entity description: Eastern Standard Time (Panama) is the year-round time standard used in Panama, corresponding to UTC−5 without daylight saving time.
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A.
America/Belize
America/Belize is the IANA time zone identifier representing the standard time observed in Belize, corresponding to Central Standard Time without daylight saving changes.
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B.
Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone is a standard time zone used by the eastern portion of North America, including major U.S. cities such as New York and Washington, D.C.
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C.
America/Managua
America/Managua is the IANA time zone identifier representing local time in Managua, the capital city of Nicaragua.
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D.
Atlantic Time Zone
The Atlantic Time Zone is a North American time zone used in eastern Canada and parts of the Caribbean, typically one hour ahead of Eastern Time.
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E.
Jamaica Standard Time
Jamaica Standard Time is the time zone observed throughout Jamaica, corresponding to UTC−5 without daylight saving time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
standard time
ⓘ
time zone ⓘ |
| appliesToCapitalCity | Panama City ⓘ |
| appliesToRegion | entire territory of Panama ⓘ |
| coincidesWithUTCInMonth | never (always 5 hours behind UTC) ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| DSTObservedBetweenYears | none ⓘ |
| DSTOffsetChange | 0 hours (no change) ⓘ |
| DSTPolicy | Panama does not observe daylight saving time ⓘ |
| IANAZoneIdentifier | America/Panama ⓘ |
| isFixedOffsetZone | yes ⓘ |
| legalTimeIn |
Panama
ⓘ
surface form:
Republic of Panama
|
| observedInCountry | Panama ⓘ |
| observedYearRound | yes ⓘ |
| offsetFromCoordinatedUniversalTime | −5 hours ⓘ |
| primaryUse | civil, commercial, and governmental timekeeping in Panama ⓘ |
| sameOffsetAs |
America/Bogota
ⓘ
surface form:
Colombia Standard Time
Cuba Standard Time ⓘ
surface form:
Cuba Standard Time (non‑DST period)
Eastern Time Zone ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Standard Time (North America)
Ecuador Time (continental Ecuador) ⓘ Jamaica Standard Time ⓘ
surface form:
Haiti Standard Time (non‑DST period)
Peru Time ⓘ |
| timeDifferenceFromUTCInSeconds | −18000 ⓘ |
| timeNotation |
12-hour clock (commonly used in daily life)
ⓘ
24-hour clock (de facto in many official uses) ⓘ |
| typicalAbbreviation | EST ⓘ |
| usedForCivilTime | yes ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | no ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
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: Eastern Standard Time (Panama) Description of subject: Eastern Standard Time (Panama) is the year-round time standard used in Panama, corresponding to UTC−5 without daylight saving time.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Eastern Standard Time
subject surface form:
Yaviza
subject surface form:
Playa del Carmen
this entity surface form:
Eastern Standard Time
this entity surface form:
Eastern Standard Time (no DST)
this entity surface form:
Eastern Standard Time (without DST)
this entity surface form:
Panama Time
subject surface form:
Riviera Maya
this entity surface form:
Eastern Standard Time (no daylight saving)
this entity surface form:
Eastern Standard Time
this entity surface form:
Eastern Standard Time (no daylight saving)
this entity surface form:
Eastern Standard Time (no DST)
this entity surface form:
Eastern Standard Time
this entity surface form:
Eastern Standard Time