West Africa Time (WAT)
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West Africa Time (WAT) is the time zone used by several West and Central African countries, corresponding to UTC+1.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| West Africa Time | 899 |
| West Africa Standard Time | 1 |
| West Africa Time (WAT) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T288143 — 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: West Africa Time (WAT) Context triple: [CET, isSameTimeAs, West Africa Time (WAT)]
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A.
Central Africa Time
Central Africa Time is a time zone used by several countries in central and southern Africa, typically two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+2) without daylight saving time.
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B.
East Africa Time
East Africa Time is the standard time zone used by several countries in the eastern part of the African continent, typically three hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+3).
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C.
Gulf Standard Time
Gulf Standard Time is the time zone used by several Gulf countries, including the United Arab Emirates, which is four hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+4) and does not observe daylight saving time.
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D.
Western European Time
Western European Time is a standard time zone used in parts of Western Europe, including Portugal, that aligns with Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+0) during the non-daylight saving period.
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E.
Cuba Standard Time
Cuba Standard Time is the standard time zone used throughout the island nation of Cuba, typically corresponding to UTC−05:00.
- 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: West Africa Time (WAT) Target entity description: West Africa Time (WAT) is the time zone used by several West and Central African countries, corresponding to UTC+1.
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A.
Central Africa Time
Central Africa Time is a time zone used by several countries in central and southern Africa, typically two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+2) without daylight saving time.
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B.
East Africa Time
East Africa Time is the standard time zone used by several countries in the eastern part of the African continent, typically three hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+3).
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C.
Gulf Standard Time
Gulf Standard Time is the time zone used by several Gulf countries, including the United Arab Emirates, which is four hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+4) and does not observe daylight saving time.
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D.
Western European Time
Western European Time is a standard time zone used in parts of Western Europe, including Portugal, that aligns with Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+0) during the non-daylight saving period.
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E.
Cuba Standard Time
Cuba Standard Time is the standard time zone used throughout the island nation of Cuba, typically corresponding to UTC−05:00.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
standard time
ⓘ
time zone ⓘ |
| abbreviation | WAT ⓘ |
| category |
Time in Africa
ⓘ
UTC+01:00 time zones ⓘ |
| coordinatedWith |
Coordinated Universal Time
ⓘ
surface form:
international time standard UTC
|
| DSTRelation | remains UTC+1 all year in most observing countries ⓘ |
| fullName |
West Africa Time (WAT)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
West Africa Time
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| geographicalCoverage | countries near the 15°E meridian (approximate) ⓘ |
| IANA_timeZoneExample |
Bangui
ⓘ
surface form:
Africa/Bangui
Brazzaville ⓘ
surface form:
Africa/Brazzaville
Douala ⓘ
surface form:
Africa/Douala
Lagos ⓘ
surface form:
Africa/Lagos
Libreville ⓘ
surface form:
Africa/Libreville
Africa/Luanda ⓘ Malabo ⓘ
surface form:
Africa/Malabo
N'Djamena ⓘ
surface form:
Africa/Ndjamena
Africa/Niamey ⓘ Africa/Porto-Novo ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | no (in most countries) ⓘ |
| offsetFromGreenwichMeanTime | +1 hour ⓘ |
| offsetFromUTCInHours | +1 ⓘ |
| relatedTimeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| timeNotation | 24-hour clock (common) ⓘ |
| typicalUse | civil timekeeping in West and Central Africa ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Algeria
ⓘ
surface form:
Algeria (some sources historically/regionally)
Angola ⓘ Benin ⓘ Cameroon ⓘ Central African Republic ⓘ Chad ⓘ Democratic Republic of the Congo ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic Republic of the Congo (west)
Equatorial Guinea ⓘ Gabon ⓘ Libya ⓘ
surface form:
Libya (historically)
Morocco ⓘ
surface form:
Morocco (historically/regionally)
Namibia ⓘ
surface form:
Namibia (historically)
Niger ⓘ Nigeria ⓘ Republic of the Congo ⓘ São Tomé and Príncipe ⓘ
surface form:
São Tomé and Príncipe (historically)
Tunisia ⓘ
surface form:
Tunisia (historically/regionally)
Spanish Sahara ⓘ
surface form:
Western Sahara (historically/regionally)
|
| usedInRegion |
Central Africa
ⓘ
West Africa ⓘ |
| UTCoffset | UTC+1 ⓘ |
| UTCoffsetComparison | same offset as Central European Time (CET) ⓘ |
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: West Africa Time (WAT) Description of subject: West Africa Time (WAT) is the time zone used by several West and Central African countries, corresponding to UTC+1.
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