America/Sao_Paulo
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America/Sao_Paulo is the primary time zone used in much of southeastern Brazil, including major cities such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| America/Sao_Paulo canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11702549 — 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/Sao_Paulo Context triple: [Teutônia, locatedInTimeZone, America/Sao_Paulo]
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A.
America/Recife
America/Recife is the time zone used in parts of northeastern Brazil, including the city of Recife and surrounding regions.
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B.
Brasília Time
Brasília Time is the standard time zone used in Brazil’s capital and much of the country’s eastern region, typically set at UTC−03:00.
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C.
America/Bahia_Banderas
America/Bahia_Banderas is an IANA time zone identifier used for the Bahia de Banderas region in Mexico, aligning it with Central Time.
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D.
America/Santiago
America/Santiago is the primary IANA time zone identifier used for the Santiago region of Chile, reflecting the country's standard and daylight saving time rules.
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E.
Sé, São Paulo
Sé, São Paulo is a historic central district of São Paulo, Brazil, known as the city's symbolic heart and home to major landmarks, including the main cathedral and the official city center marker.
- 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/Sao_Paulo Target entity description: America/Sao_Paulo is the primary time zone used in much of southeastern Brazil, including major cities such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
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A.
America/Recife
America/Recife is the time zone used in parts of northeastern Brazil, including the city of Recife and surrounding regions.
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B.
Brasília Time
Brasília Time is the standard time zone used in Brazil’s capital and much of the country’s eastern region, typically set at UTC−03:00.
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C.
America/Bahia_Banderas
America/Bahia_Banderas is an IANA time zone identifier used for the Bahia de Banderas region in Mexico, aligning it with Central Time.
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D.
America/Santiago
America/Santiago is the primary IANA time zone identifier used for the Santiago region of Chile, reflecting the country's standard and daylight saving time rules.
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E.
Sé, São Paulo
Sé, São Paulo is a historic central district of São Paulo, Brazil, known as the city's symbolic heart and home to major landmarks, including the main cathedral and the official city center marker.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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/Sao_Paulo Description of subject: America/Sao_Paulo is the primary time zone used in much of southeastern Brazil, including major cities such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.