New Zealand Standard Time
E12872
New Zealand Standard Time is the standard time zone observed in New Zealand, typically 12 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+12).
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Zealand Standard Time canonical | 167 |
| NZST | 41 |
| New Zealand Standard Time (operational use) | 1 |
| New Zealand Time | 1 |
| Pacific/Auckland | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T92153 — 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: New Zealand Standard Time Context triple: [New Zealand, timeZone, New Zealand Standard Time]
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A.
Australian Western Standard Time
Australian Western Standard Time is the standard time zone used in Western Australia, typically observed at UTC+8 hours.
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B.
Australian Eastern Standard Time
Australian Eastern Standard Time is the standard time zone used in eastern Australia, including major regions such as New South Wales and Queensland, typically 10 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+10).
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C.
Australian Central Standard Time
Australian Central Standard Time is the standard time zone used in central regions of Australia, typically 9 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+9:30).
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D.
Samoa Time Zone
The Samoa Time Zone is a time standard used primarily in the Samoan Islands region of the Pacific, aligning local time for countries such as Samoa and American Samoa.
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E.
Time South Pacific
Time South Pacific is a regional edition of Time magazine tailored to news and issues relevant to readers in the South Pacific and surrounding Asia-Pacific areas.
- 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: New Zealand Standard Time Target entity description: New Zealand Standard Time is the standard time zone observed in New Zealand, typically 12 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+12).
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A.
Australian Western Standard Time
Australian Western Standard Time is the standard time zone used in Western Australia, typically observed at UTC+8 hours.
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B.
Australian Eastern Standard Time
Australian Eastern Standard Time is the standard time zone used in eastern Australia, including major regions such as New South Wales and Queensland, typically 10 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+10).
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C.
Australian Central Standard Time
Australian Central Standard Time is the standard time zone used in central regions of Australia, typically 9 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+9:30).
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D.
Samoa Time Zone
The Samoa Time Zone is a time standard used primarily in the Samoan Islands region of the Pacific, aligning local time for countries such as Samoa and American Samoa.
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E.
Time South Pacific
Time South Pacific is a regional edition of Time magazine tailored to news and issues relevant to readers in the South Pacific and surrounding Asia-Pacific areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
standard time
ⓘ
time zone ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
New Zealand Standard Time
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
NZST
|
| appliesTo |
New Zealand
ⓘ
surface form:
New Zealand mainland
nearby New Zealand-administered islands (excluding special zones) ⓘ |
| ChathamStandardTimeOffsetDifference | Chatham Standard Time is 45 minutes ahead of NZST ⓘ |
| coordinatedBy | New Zealand national timekeeping authorities ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| daylightSavingAbbreviation |
New Zealand Daylight Time
ⓘ
surface form:
NZDT
|
| daylightSavingUTCoffset | UTC+13 ⓘ |
| DSTHemispherePattern | daylight saving observed during Southern Hemisphere summer ⓘ |
| followsStandard | Coordinated Universal Time ⓘ |
| hasDaylightSavingTimeVariant | New Zealand Daylight Time ⓘ |
| hemisphere | Southern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| IANAZoneIdentifier |
Antarctica/McMurdo
ⓘ
New Zealand Standard Time self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific/Auckland
|
| isBaseFor | New Zealand civil timekeeping ⓘ |
| legalStatus | official standard time of New Zealand ⓘ |
| observedIn |
Chatham Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
Chatham Islands (with different offset rule)
North Island ⓘ
surface form:
North Island of New Zealand
Ross Dependency (New Zealand Antarctic territory) ⓘ South Island ⓘ
surface form:
South Island of New Zealand
Stewart Island / Rakiura ⓘ
surface form:
Stewart Island
|
| region | Oceania ⓘ |
| relatedTimeZone | Chatham Standard Time ⓘ |
| seasonalAdjustment | advanced by one hour during daylight saving period ⓘ |
| timeNotation |
12-hour clock (common use)
ⓘ
24-hour clock (official) ⓘ |
| typicalRelationToUTC | 12 hours ahead of UTC ⓘ |
| usedBy |
New Zealand businesses
ⓘ
New Zealand government ⓘ New Zealand residents ⓘ |
| UTCoffset | UTC+12 ⓘ |
| UTCoffsetHours | 12 ⓘ |
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: New Zealand Standard Time Description of subject: New Zealand Standard Time is the standard time zone observed in New Zealand, typically 12 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+12).
Referenced by (211)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Napier Airport
this entity surface form:
NZST
this entity surface form:
NZST
this entity surface form:
NZST
Cook Strait region (southern North Island and northern South Island)
→
timeZone
→
New Zealand Standard Time
ⓘ
subject surface form:
Cook Strait region
this entity surface form:
NZST
subject surface form:
Rotorua Airport
this entity surface form:
NZST
subject surface form:
Rotorua Airport
this entity surface form:
NZST
subject surface form:
Auckland Airport
this entity surface form:
NZST
this entity surface form:
NZST