Atlantic/Canary
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Atlantic/Canary is the IANA time zone identifier used for the Canary Islands, aligning with Western European time conventions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Atlantic/Canary canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T886516 — 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/Canary Context triple: [Western European Summer Time, IANAZoneExample, Atlantic/Canary]
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A.
North Atlantic area
The North Atlantic area is the broad transatlantic region encompassing the northern parts of the Atlantic Ocean and surrounding countries in Europe and North America that form the geographic focus of NATO’s collective security.
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B.
Canary Islands waters
Canary Islands waters are the maritime zones surrounding the Canary Islands archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, significant for their strategic location, rich marine biodiversity, and role in regional shipping and naval operations.
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C.
The Atlantic
The Atlantic is a long-running American magazine and multi-platform media outlet known for its in-depth journalism, cultural commentary, and analysis of politics and current events.
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D.
South Atlantic
The South Atlantic is a U.S. Census Bureau division encompassing several southeastern states along the Atlantic coast, including areas such as Georgia.
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E.
Sargasso Sea
The Sargasso Sea is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean characterized by its clear, warm waters and large floating mats of Sargassum seaweed, bounded by ocean currents rather than land.
- 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/Canary Target entity description: Atlantic/Canary is the IANA time zone identifier used for the Canary Islands, aligning with Western European time conventions.
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A.
North Atlantic area
The North Atlantic area is the broad transatlantic region encompassing the northern parts of the Atlantic Ocean and surrounding countries in Europe and North America that form the geographic focus of NATO’s collective security.
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B.
Canary Islands waters
Canary Islands waters are the maritime zones surrounding the Canary Islands archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, significant for their strategic location, rich marine biodiversity, and role in regional shipping and naval operations.
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C.
The Atlantic
The Atlantic is a long-running American magazine and multi-platform media outlet known for its in-depth journalism, cultural commentary, and analysis of politics and current events.
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D.
South Atlantic
The South Atlantic is a U.S. Census Bureau division encompassing several southeastern states along the Atlantic coast, including areas such as Georgia.
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E.
Sargasso Sea
The Sargasso Sea is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean characterized by its clear, warm waters and large floating mats of Sargassum seaweed, bounded by ocean currents rather than land.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IANA time zone identifier
ⓘ
time zone ⓘ |
| alignsWith |
Europe/Lisbon
ⓘ
Europe/London (when on standard time) ⓘ Western European Time zone group ⓘ |
| areaComponent |
Atlantic
ⓘ
linked to:
Atlantic Ocean
|
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| databaseIdentifierFormat | Area/Location ⓘ |
| differentFrom | Europe/Madrid ⓘ |
| DSTAbbreviation | WEST ⓘ |
| DSTEndConvention | last Sunday in October ⓘ |
| DSTStartConvention | last Sunday in March ⓘ |
| followsDST | true ⓘ |
| IANAZoneDatabase |
zone.tab
ⓘ
zoneinfo ⓘ |
| latitudeApproxCategory | mid-latitude ⓘ |
| locationComponent | Canary ⓘ |
| namingAuthority | IANA ⓘ |
| primaryCities |
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
ⓘ
Santa Cruz de Tenerife ⓘ |
| region | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| standardAbbreviation | WET ⓘ |
| timeDifferenceWith | Europe/Madrid:+1 hour behind ⓘ |
| timeStandard |
Western European Summer Time
ⓘ
Western European Time ⓘ |
| usedFor | Canary Islands ⓘ |
| usedInAdministrativeRegion |
Canary Islands autonomous community
ⓘ
linked to:
Canary Islands
|
| UTCOffsetDST | +01:00 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetStandard | +00:00 ⓘ |
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/Canary Description of subject: Atlantic/Canary is the IANA time zone identifier used for the Canary Islands, aligning with Western European time conventions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.