Here 8.49393 in the Entity[], absolute time difference 127.83453 (2 min 7), Mathematica 10.4 on this machine, Windows 10 64 Bit Prof Update 1709. If you do the same thing again (0.0114 vs. 10.7457 - Computers are obviously intended to do it again).
But know, keep your socks on, if the notebook is closed, Mathematica exits too, then the Notebook opened again, it does again an 'Initializing Knowledge Base Connection' but returns in 4.68854 vs. 6.31252. Then the question is, what has been returned?
Usually the solution is to localize or cache the data needed, if that is possible. Only from time to time a check whether curators did change something should be done.
