GLONASS Time
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GLONASS Time is the official time scale used by Russia’s GLONASS global navigation satellite system, closely aligned with UTC but maintained independently for satellite positioning and timing.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GLONASS Time canonical | 1 |
| GLONASST | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6327467 — 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: GLONASS Time Context triple: [GLONASS, usesTimeScale, GLONASS Time]
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A.
GLONASS
GLONASS is Russia’s global satellite navigation system, providing worldwide positioning and timing services as an alternative to GPS.
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B.
GPS
GPS (Global Positioning System) is a satellite-based navigation system that provides precise location and timing information to military and civilian users worldwide.
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C.
GPS
GPS is the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, focusing on research and education in Earth and planetary sciences.
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D.
International Atomic Time
International Atomic Time is a high-precision time standard based on the combined output of atomic clocks worldwide, serving as the fundamental reference for modern civil and scientific timekeeping.
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E.
Galileo satellite navigation system
The Galileo satellite navigation system is the European Union’s global navigation satellite system designed to provide highly accurate positioning and timing services worldwide as an independent alternative to GPS and other GNSS constellations.
- 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: GLONASS Time Target entity description: GLONASS Time is the official time scale used by Russia’s GLONASS global navigation satellite system, closely aligned with UTC but maintained independently for satellite positioning and timing.
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A.
GLONASS
GLONASS is Russia’s global satellite navigation system, providing worldwide positioning and timing services as an alternative to GPS.
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B.
GPS
GPS (Global Positioning System) is a satellite-based navigation system that provides precise location and timing information to military and civilian users worldwide.
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C.
GPS
GPS is the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, focusing on research and education in Earth and planetary sciences.
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D.
International Atomic Time
International Atomic Time is a high-precision time standard based on the combined output of atomic clocks worldwide, serving as the fundamental reference for modern civil and scientific timekeeping.
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E.
Galileo satellite navigation system
The Galileo satellite navigation system is the European Union’s global navigation satellite system designed to provide highly accurate positioning and timing services worldwide as an independent alternative to GPS and other GNSS constellations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
satellite navigation time scale
ⓘ
time scale ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
GLONASST
ⓘ
linked to:
GLONASS Time
|
| alignedWith | Coordinated Universal Time ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Russian Federation navigation infrastructure ⓘ |
| belongsToCategory |
GNSS time scales
ⓘ
time standards ⓘ |
| closelyAlignedWith |
UTC
ⓘ
linked to:
GMT
|
| coordinateFrame | Earth-centered time reference ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russia ⓘ |
| definedBy | GLONASS system specifications ⓘ |
| epochReference | UTC epoch ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
high accuracy
ⓘ
high stability ⓘ |
| isBroadcastBy |
GLONASS satellites
ⓘ
linked to:
GLONASS
|
| maintainedBy | GLONASS system control segment ⓘ |
| maintainedIndependentlyFrom |
UTC
ⓘ
linked to:
GMT
|
| purpose |
synchronization of satellite clocks
ⓘ
synchronization of user receivers ⓘ |
| referenceSystemOf | GLONASS satellite clocks ⓘ |
| timeScaleType | continuous atomic time scale ⓘ |
| usedBy | GLONASS ⓘ |
| usedFor |
navigation
ⓘ
satellite positioning ⓘ timing ⓘ |
| usedIn | global navigation satellite systems domain ⓘ |
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: GLONASS Time Description of subject: GLONASS Time is the official time scale used by Russia’s GLONASS global navigation satellite system, closely aligned with UTC but maintained independently for satellite positioning and timing.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: GLONASS Time