Alaska Time Zone
E2447
The Alaska Time Zone is the standard time zone used by most of the U.S. state of Alaska, observing a time offset one hour behind Pacific Time.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alaska Time Zone canonical | 427 |
| Alaska Standard Time | 15 |
| Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zone | 2 |
| America/Anchorage | 1 |
| America/Nome | 1 |
| America/Sitka | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T45365 — 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: Alaska Time Zone Context triple: [Alaska, timeZone, Alaska Time Zone]
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A.
North American time zones
North American time zones are the standardized regional time divisions used across countries in North America, including zones such as Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific Time.
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B.
Alaska
Alaska is the largest and one of the most sparsely populated U.S. states, known for its vast wilderness, Arctic and sub-Arctic climate, abundant natural resources, and rich Indigenous cultures.
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C.
Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone is a standard time zone used by the eastern portion of North America, including major U.S. cities such as New York and Washington, D.C.
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D.
Chamorro Standard Time
Chamorro Standard Time is the time zone used in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, corresponding to UTC+10:00.
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E.
American Samoa
American Samoa is an unincorporated U.S. island territory in the South Pacific Ocean known for its Polynesian culture, strategic location, and rugged volcanic landscapes.
- 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: Alaska Time Zone Target entity description: The Alaska Time Zone is the standard time zone used by most of the U.S. state of Alaska, observing a time offset one hour behind Pacific Time.
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A.
North American time zones
North American time zones are the standardized regional time divisions used across countries in North America, including zones such as Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific Time.
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B.
Alaska
Alaska is the largest and one of the most sparsely populated U.S. states, known for its vast wilderness, Arctic and sub-Arctic climate, abundant natural resources, and rich Indigenous cultures.
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C.
Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone is a standard time zone used by the eastern portion of North America, including major U.S. cities such as New York and Washington, D.C.
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D.
Chamorro Standard Time
Chamorro Standard Time is the time zone used in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, corresponding to UTC+10:00.
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E.
Arctic region
The Arctic region is the Earth's northernmost polar area, characterized by extreme cold, sea ice, tundra landscapes, and unique ecosystems adapted to long periods of darkness and light.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Alaska Time Zone Description of subject: The Alaska Time Zone is the standard time zone used by most of the U.S. state of Alaska, observing a time offset one hour behind Pacific Time.
Referenced by (447)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cordova, Alaska
this entity surface form:
Alaska Standard Time