Atlantic Time Zone
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The Atlantic Time Zone is a North American time zone used in eastern Canada and parts of the Caribbean, typically one hour ahead of Eastern Time.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Atlantic Standard Time | 602 |
| Atlantic Time Zone canonical | 175 |
| Atlantic Daylight Time | 20 |
| America/Halifax | 1 |
| Atlantic Time | 1 |
| Atlantic Time (parts) | 1 |
| Atlantic Time Zone (eastern regions) | 1 |
| Atlantic/Bermuda | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14471 — 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: Atlantic Time Zone Context triple: [Eastern Time Zone, adjacentTimeZoneEast, Atlantic Time Zone]
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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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B.
Newfoundland Time Zone
The Newfoundland Time Zone is a unique North American time zone centered on the Canadian island of Newfoundland, notable for its unusual half-hour offset from standard hour-based time zones.
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C.
Central Time Zone
The Central Time Zone is a North American time zone that covers much of the central United States and parts of Canada and Mexico, typically six hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−6) and observing daylight saving time.
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D.
Pacific Time Zone
The Pacific Time Zone is a North American time zone that covers the U.S. West Coast and parts of Canada and Mexico, typically eight hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−8) and observing daylight saving time.
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E.
Mountain Time Zone
The Mountain Time Zone is a North American time zone that covers parts of the central-western United States, Canada, and Mexico, lying between the Pacific and Central time zones.
- 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: Atlantic Time Zone Target entity description: The Atlantic Time Zone is a North American time zone used in eastern Canada and parts of the Caribbean, typically one hour ahead of Eastern Time.
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A.
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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B.
Newfoundland Time Zone
The Newfoundland Time Zone is a unique North American time zone centered on the Canadian island of Newfoundland, notable for its unusual half-hour offset from standard hour-based time zones.
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C.
Central Time Zone
The Central Time Zone is a North American time zone that covers much of the central United States and parts of Canada and Mexico, typically six hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−6) and observing daylight saving time.
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D.
Pacific Time Zone
The Pacific Time Zone is a North American time zone that covers the U.S. West Coast and parts of Canada and Mexico, typically eight hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−8) and observing daylight saving time.
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E.
Mountain Time Zone
The Mountain Time Zone is a North American time zone that covers parts of the central-western United States, Canada, and Mexico, lying between the Pacific and Central time zones.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Atlantic Time Zone Description of subject: The Atlantic Time Zone is a North American time zone used in eastern Canada and parts of the Caribbean, typically one hour ahead of Eastern Time.
Referenced by (802)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Atlantic Standard Time
this entity surface form:
Atlantic Standard Time