EST
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EST is the common abbreviation for Eastern Standard Time, a time zone used in parts of North and Central America, including Panama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| EST canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5041519 — 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: EST Context triple: [Eastern Standard Time (Panama), typicalAbbreviation, EST]
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A.
EST
EST is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code representing Estonia.
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B.
EST
EST is the commonly used abbreviation for Espérance Sportive de Tunis, a major Tunisian football and sports club based in Tunis.
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C.
STE
STE is the vehicle registration code assigned to the district of Lichtenfels in Germany.
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D.
ST
ST is the commonly used abbreviation for SkyTeam, a major global airline alliance.
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E.
ST
ST is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code representing São Tomé and Príncipe.
- 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: EST Target entity description: EST is the common abbreviation for Eastern Standard Time, a time zone used in parts of North and Central America, including Panama.
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A.
EST
EST is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code representing Estonia.
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B.
EST
EST is the commonly used abbreviation for Espérance Sportive de Tunis, a major Tunisian football and sports club based in Tunis.
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C.
STE
STE is the vehicle registration code assigned to the district of Lichtenfels in Germany.
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D.
ST
ST is the commonly used abbreviation for SkyTeam, a major global airline alliance.
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E.
ST
ST is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code representing São Tomé and Príncipe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | time zone ⓘ |
| abbreviation | EST ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
Central Standard Time
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eastern Daylight Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Mountain Standard Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Standard Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| daylightSavingOffset | UTC−04:00 ⓘ |
| followsStandard | Coordinated Universal Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIANAIdentifier |
America/New_York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
America/Panama ⓘ |
| isStandardTimeFor | Eastern Time Zone (North America) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observedDuringMonths |
early spring
ⓘ
late autumn ⓘ winter ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingVariant | Eastern Daylight Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| offsetFromCoordinatedUniversalTime | −5 hours ⓘ |
| partOfTimeZoneRegion | North American Eastern Time Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeStandardName | Eastern Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZoneOf |
Atlanta
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Miami NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ Panama City NERFINISHED ⓘ Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy | North American Eastern Time Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInContinent |
Central America
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Bahamas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Cayman Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ Cuba NERFINISHED ⓘ Haiti NERFINISHED ⓘ Jamaica NERFINISHED ⓘ Mexico ⓘ Panama NERFINISHED ⓘ Turks and Caicos Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| usedInRegion |
Eastern United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ Georgia (U.S. state) NERFINISHED ⓘ Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ New York NERFINISHED ⓘ North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ South Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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: EST Description of subject: EST is the common abbreviation for Eastern Standard Time, a time zone used in parts of North and Central America, including Panama.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.