America/Detroit
E390468
America/Detroit is the IANA time zone identifier representing Eastern Time as observed in Detroit and much of the U.S. state of Michigan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| America/Detroit canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3809946 — 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: America/Detroit Context triple: [Cherry Capital Airport, timeZone, America/Detroit]
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A.
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
America/Indiana/Indianapolis is a time zone designation used in parts of Indiana that aligns with Eastern Time while accounting for the state's historical and regional time-keeping practices.
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B.
America/Chicago
America/Chicago is the primary Central Time Zone identifier used in North America, covering much of the central United States and parts of Canada and Mexico.
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C.
America/Winnipeg
America/Winnipeg is the IANA time zone identifier representing the local time for Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in the Central Time Zone.
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D.
America/Dawson
America/Dawson is an IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Dawson, Yukon, Canada.
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E.
America/Chihuahua
America/Chihuahua is an IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in the Mexican state of Chihuahua within the Mountain Time Zone.
- 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: America/Detroit Target entity description: America/Detroit is the IANA time zone identifier representing Eastern Time as observed in Detroit and much of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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A.
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
America/Indiana/Indianapolis is a time zone designation used in parts of Indiana that aligns with Eastern Time while accounting for the state's historical and regional time-keeping practices.
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B.
America/Chicago
America/Chicago is the primary Central Time Zone identifier used in North America, covering much of the central United States and parts of Canada and Mexico.
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C.
America/Winnipeg
America/Winnipeg is the IANA time zone identifier representing the local time for Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in the Central Time Zone.
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D.
America/Dawson
America/Dawson is an IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Dawson, Yukon, Canada.
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E.
America/Chihuahua
America/Chihuahua is an IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in the Mexican state of Chihuahua within the Mountain Time Zone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: America/Detroit Description of subject: America/Detroit is the IANA time zone identifier representing Eastern Time as observed in Detroit and much of the U.S. state of Michigan.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Big Rapids, Michigan