Nepal Time
E173520
Nepal Time is the standard time zone of Nepal, set at UTC+5:45 and used nationwide including in the capital, Kathmandu.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nepal Time canonical | 129 |
| Asia/Kathmandu | 1 |
| Nepal Time (UTC+5:45) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1529674 — 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: Nepal Time Context triple: [Kathmandu, timeZone, Nepal Time]
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A.
Anadyr Time
Anadyr Time is the time zone used in Russia’s far northeastern regions, including Chukotka and parts of the Russian Far East, offset well ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.
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B.
Madras Time
Madras Time was a former local time standard used in the Madras (now Chennai) region of India before the adoption of a unified national time zone.
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C.
Nepal
Nepal is a landlocked South Asian country in the Himalayas, known for Mount Everest, its rich cultural heritage, and its location between India and China.
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D.
Niue Time
Niue Time is the standard time observed in the island nation of Niue, a small self-governing state in free association with New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Easter Island Standard Time
Easter Island Standard Time is the time zone used on Chile’s Easter Island, typically four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−6) outside of daylight saving periods.
- 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: Nepal Time Target entity description: Nepal Time is the standard time zone of Nepal, set at UTC+5:45 and used nationwide including in the capital, Kathmandu.
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A.
Anadyr Time
Anadyr Time is the time zone used in Russia’s far northeastern regions, including Chukotka and parts of the Russian Far East, offset well ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.
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B.
Madras Time
Madras Time was a former local time standard used in the Madras (now Chennai) region of India before the adoption of a unified national time zone.
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C.
Nepal
Nepal is a landlocked South Asian country in the Himalayas, known for Mount Everest, its rich cultural heritage, and its location between India and China.
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D.
Niue Time
Niue Time is the standard time observed in the island nation of Niue, a small self-governing state in free association with New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Easter Island Standard Time
Easter Island Standard Time is the time zone used on Chile’s Easter Island, typically four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−6) outside of daylight saving periods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | time zone ⓘ |
| abbreviation | NPT ⓘ |
| countryUsedIn | Nepal ⓘ |
| followsDaylightSavingTime | no ⓘ |
| hasCapitalCityUsingTime | Kathmandu ⓘ |
| hasFixedOffsetFromUTC | true ⓘ |
| hasUniqueQuarterHourOffset | true ⓘ |
| isAheadOfIndianStandardTimeByMinutes | 15 ⓘ |
| isAheadOfUTCByMinutes | 345 ⓘ |
| isLegalTimeIn | Nepal ⓘ |
| isPrimaryTimeZoneOf | Kathmandu Valley ⓘ |
| isSingleTimeZoneForCountry | Nepal ⓘ |
| isStandardTimeOf | Nepal ⓘ |
| isUsedInBroadcastingSchedulesOf | Nepal ⓘ |
| isUsedInEducationSystemOf | Nepal ⓘ |
| isUsedInFinancialMarketsOf | Nepal ⓘ |
| isUsedInGovernmentOfficesOf | Nepal ⓘ |
| isUsedInMilitaryOf | Nepal ⓘ |
| isUsedInTransportationSchedulesOf | Nepal ⓘ |
| observedNationwide | true ⓘ |
| offsetHours | 5 ⓘ |
| offsetMinutes | 45 ⓘ |
| relatedTimeZoneDatabaseIdentifier |
Asia/Kathmandu
ⓘ
linked to:
Nepal Time
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| timeStandardType | standard time ⓘ |
| timeZoneOffsetDirection | east of UTC ⓘ |
| timeZoneRegion | Asia ⓘ |
| usedForCivilTimekeepingIn | Nepal ⓘ |
| usedInCity | Kathmandu ⓘ |
| utcOffset | UTC+05:45 ⓘ |
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: Nepal Time Description of subject: Nepal Time is the standard time zone of Nepal, set at UTC+5:45 and used nationwide including in the capital, Kathmandu.
Referenced by (131)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nepal Time
subject linked to:
Jhapa District, Nepal
subject linked to:
Morang District, Nepal