CST
E35124
CST is the time zone used throughout mainland China, eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CST canonical | 1 |
| CST (China) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T267951 — 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: CST Context triple: [China Standard Time, alsoKnownAs, CST]
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A.
ChST
ChST is the time zone used in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, which is 10 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+10).
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B.
CEST
CEST is the daylight saving time observed in many Central European countries, typically running one hour ahead of Central European Time.
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C.
CED
CED is an academic unit focused on the study and practice of environmental design, including fields such as architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning.
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D.
CIT
CIT is the commonly used acronym for the Center for Information Technology, an organization focused on advancing computing and information systems.
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E.
CLT
CLT is a fundamental statistical principle stating that the sum or average of many independent, identically distributed random variables tends to follow a normal distribution, regardless of the original distribution.
- 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: CST Target entity description: CST is the time zone used throughout mainland China, eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
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A.
ChST
ChST is the time zone used in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, which is 10 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+10).
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B.
CEST
CEST is the daylight saving time observed in many Central European countries, typically running one hour ahead of Central European Time.
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C.
CED
CED is an academic unit focused on the study and practice of environmental design, including fields such as architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning.
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D.
CIT
CIT is the commonly used acronym for the Center for Information Technology, an organization focused on advancing computing and information systems.
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E.
CLT
CLT is a fundamental statistical principle stating that the sum or average of many independent, identically distributed random variables tends to follow a normal distribution, regardless of the original distribution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | time zone ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CST ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
BJT
ⓘ
China Standard Time ⓘ
surface form:
Beijing Time
China Standard Time ⓘ
surface form:
China Time
|
| appliesToTerritory |
all provinces of mainland China
ⓘ
autonomous regions of mainland China ⓘ municipalities directly under the central government of China ⓘ |
| coordinatedBy |
State Council of China
ⓘ
surface form:
Chinese government
|
| country | China ⓘ |
| daylightSavingTime | not observed ⓘ |
| fullName | China Standard Time ⓘ |
| IANAZoneIdentifier |
China Standard Time
ⓘ
surface form:
Asia/Beijing
China Standard Time ⓘ
surface form:
Asia/Chongqing
China Standard Time ⓘ
surface form:
Asia/Harbin
China Standard Time ⓘ
surface form:
Asia/Shanghai
China Standard Time ⓘ
surface form:
Asia/Urumqi
|
| legalStatus | official standard time of the People's Republic of China ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | no ⓘ |
| offsetFromUTCInSeconds | 28800 ⓘ |
| regionCoverage | single time zone for all of mainland China ⓘ |
| standardAbbreviationContext | timekeeping in China ⓘ |
| timeDifferenceFromUTC | 8 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time ⓘ |
| timeNotation | 24-hour clock (official) ⓘ |
| timeReferenceCity | Beijing ⓘ |
| usedFor |
broadcast scheduling in China
ⓘ
business hours scheduling in China ⓘ civil time in mainland China ⓘ government operations in China ⓘ transport timetables in China ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Beijing
ⓘ
Chéngdū ⓘ
surface form:
Chengdu
Chongqing ⓘ Guangzhou ⓘ Hangzhou ⓘ Hong Kong, China ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong
Macau ⓘ Nanjing ⓘ China ⓘ
surface form:
People's Republic of China
Shanghai ⓘ Shenzhen, China ⓘ
surface form:
Shenzhen
Tianjin ⓘ Wuhan ⓘ X’ian, China ⓘ
surface form:
Xi'an
China ⓘ
surface form:
mainland China
|
| UTCOffset | UTC+08:00 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetHours | 8 ⓘ |
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: CST Description of subject: CST is the time zone used throughout mainland China, eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
CST (China)