America/Panama
E488510
America/Panama is the IANA time zone identifier used for Panama, which observes Eastern Standard Time year-round without daylight saving time.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| America/Panama canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5041508 — 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/Panama Context triple: [Eastern Standard Time (Panama), IANAZoneIdentifier, America/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.
America/Havana
America/Havana is the IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Havana, Cuba.
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C.
America/Merida
America/Merida is an IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Mérida and surrounding areas of Mexico within the Central Time Zone.
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D.
America/Matamoros
America/Matamoros is the IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Matamoros, a city in northeastern Mexico near the U.S. border.
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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/Panama Target entity description: America/Panama is the IANA time zone identifier used for Panama, which observes Eastern Standard Time year-round 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.
America/Havana
America/Havana is the IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Havana, Cuba.
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C.
America/Merida
America/Merida is an IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Mérida and surrounding areas of Mexico within the Central Time Zone.
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D.
America/Matamoros
America/Matamoros is the IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Matamoros, a city in northeastern Mexico near the U.S. border.
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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 (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IANA time zone identifier
ⓘ
time zone ⓘ |
| abbreviation | EST ⓘ |
| canonical | yes ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Panama ⓘ |
| coversTerritory | entire country of Panama ⓘ |
| databaseKey | America/Panama ⓘ |
| daylightSavingTimeName | none ⓘ |
| daylightSavingUtcOffset | none ⓘ |
| dstEndRule | not applicable ⓘ |
| dstObservedHistorically | no regular DST in modern records ⓘ |
| dstPolicy | no DST, fixed UTC−05:00 all year ⓘ |
| dstStartRule | not applicable ⓘ |
| formatInPOSIXTz | EST5 ⓘ |
| ianaCategory | America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ianaTimeZoneDatabase | tz database NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ianaZoneVersionIntroduced | before 2000s (exact version unspecified) ⓘ |
| latitudeApprox | 9.0 ⓘ |
| legalTimeIn | Republic of Panama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linkedToCountryCode | PA ⓘ |
| longitudeApprox | -79.5 ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | no ⓘ |
| observesSameClockAs |
Colombia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jamaica NERFINISHED ⓘ Peru NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| offsetDoesNotChangeSeasonally | true ⓘ |
| offsetSeconds | -18000 ⓘ |
| olsonDatabaseName | America/Panama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse | civil timekeeping in Panama ⓘ |
| principalCity | Panama City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionFormat | America/Panama ⓘ |
| sameTimeAs |
America/Bogota
ⓘ
America/Cayman ⓘ America/Eirunepe NERFINISHED ⓘ America/Guayaquil NERFINISHED ⓘ America/Jamaica ⓘ America/Lima ⓘ America/Port-au-Prince ⓘ America/Rio_Branco ⓘ |
| standardTimeName | Eastern Standard Time ⓘ |
| subRegion | Central America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeNotation | 24-hour and 12-hour formats used locally ⓘ |
| timeType | standard time only ⓘ |
| timeZoneFor | Panama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | false ⓘ |
| usesOffsetFromUTC | -05:00 ⓘ |
| 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: America/Panama Description of subject: America/Panama is the IANA time zone identifier used for Panama, which observes Eastern Standard Time year-round without daylight saving time.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.