Europe/Helsinki
E941682
Europe/Helsinki is the time zone used in Finland, corresponding to Eastern European Time (EET) and Eastern European Summer Time (EEST).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Europe/Helsinki canonical | 39 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11701435 — 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: Europe/Helsinki Context triple: [Kuopio Airport, timeZone, Europe/Helsinki]
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A.
Europe/Stockholm
Europe/Stockholm is the time zone corresponding to Central European Time and Central European Summer Time used in Sweden, including its capital Stockholm.
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B.
Europe/Amsterdam
Europe/Amsterdam is the time zone used in the Netherlands and much of Western Europe, corresponding to Central European Time (CET) and Central European Summer Time (CEST).
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C.
Europe/Berlin
Europe/Berlin is the Central European time zone used in Germany and several other European countries, observing standard time (CET, UTC+1) and daylight saving time (CEST, UTC+2).
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D.
Europe/Lisbon
Europe/Lisbon is the time zone corresponding to mainland Portugal, including the capital city Lisbon, typically observing Western European Time (UTC+0) and Western European Summer Time (UTC+1).
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E.
Europe/Paris
Europe/Paris is the standard Central European time zone used by France and several other Western European countries, observing CET in winter and CEST in summer.
- 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: Europe/Helsinki Target entity description: Europe/Helsinki is the time zone used in Finland, corresponding to Eastern European Time (EET) and Eastern European Summer Time (EEST).
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A.
Europe/Stockholm
Europe/Stockholm is the time zone corresponding to Central European Time and Central European Summer Time used in Sweden, including its capital Stockholm.
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B.
Europe/Amsterdam
Europe/Amsterdam is the time zone used in the Netherlands and much of Western Europe, corresponding to Central European Time (CET) and Central European Summer Time (CEST).
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C.
Europe/Berlin
Europe/Berlin is the Central European time zone used in Germany and several other European countries, observing standard time (CET, UTC+1) and daylight saving time (CEST, UTC+2).
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D.
Europe/Lisbon
Europe/Lisbon is the time zone corresponding to mainland Portugal, including the capital city Lisbon, typically observing Western European Time (UTC+0) and Western European Summer Time (UTC+1).
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E.
Europe/Paris
Europe/Paris is the standard Central European time zone used by France and several other Western European countries, observing CET in winter and CEST in summer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IANA time zone identifier
ⓘ
time zone ⓘ |
| capitalCityInTimeZone | Helsinki ⓘ |
| city | Helsinki ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Finland ⓘ |
| daylightSavingTimeAbbreviation | EEST ⓘ |
| daylightSavingTimeName | Eastern European Summer Time ⓘ |
| daylightSavingUtcOffset | +03:00 ⓘ |
| dstPeriod | summer ⓘ |
| hemisphere | Northern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| IANAIdentifier | Europe/Helsinki ⓘ |
| ianaTimeZoneDatabase |
tz database
ⓘ
linked to:
IANA time zone database
|
| observesDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
| olsonDatabaseName | Europe/Helsinki ⓘ |
| standardTimeAbbreviation | EET ⓘ |
| standardTimeName | Eastern European Time ⓘ |
| standardTimePeriod | winter ⓘ |
| standardUtcOffset | +02:00 ⓘ |
| timeZoneFormatExample |
2024-01-01T12:00:00+02:00
ⓘ
2024-07-01T12:00:00+03:00 ⓘ |
| timeZoneOf |
Finland
ⓘ
Helsinki ⓘ |
| timeZoneRegion | Europe ⓘ |
| typicalDstOffsetHours | 3 ⓘ |
| typicalStandardOffsetHours | 2 ⓘ |
| usedForCapitalOf | Finland ⓘ |
| usedForLegalTimeIn | Finland ⓘ |
| usedIn | Åland Islands ⓘ |
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: Europe/Helsinki Description of subject: Europe/Helsinki is the time zone used in Finland, corresponding to Eastern European Time (EET) and Eastern European Summer Time (EEST).
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.