Hong Kong Time
E185646
Hong Kong Time is the standard time zone used in Hong Kong, set at UTC+8 without daylight saving time.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hong Kong Time canonical | 168 |
| Asia/Hong_Kong | 1 |
| Asia/Taipei | 1 |
| Hong Kong (de facto, as UTC+8) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1647192 — 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: Hong Kong Time Context triple: [Malaysia Time, sameUTCOffsetAs, Hong Kong Time]
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A.
Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong, China is a major global financial and trading hub and a Special Administrative Region of China located on the southern coast of the country.
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B.
Port of Hong Kong
The Port of Hong Kong is one of the world’s busiest and most important deep-water container ports, serving as a major international hub for trade and shipping in East Asia.
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C.
Kowloon
Kowloon is a densely populated urban area of Hong Kong known for its vibrant street life, markets, and skyline facing Victoria Harbour.
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D.
Niue Time
Niue Time is the standard time observed in the island nation of Niue, a small self-governing state in free association with New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Easter Island Standard Time
Easter Island Standard Time is the time zone used on Chile’s Easter Island, typically four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−6) outside of daylight saving periods.
- 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: Hong Kong Time Target entity description: Hong Kong Time is the standard time zone used in Hong Kong, set at UTC+8 without daylight saving time.
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A.
Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong, China is a major global financial and trading hub and a Special Administrative Region of China located on the southern coast of the country.
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B.
Port of Hong Kong
The Port of Hong Kong is one of the world’s busiest and most important deep-water container ports, serving as a major international hub for trade and shipping in East Asia.
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C.
Kowloon
Kowloon is a densely populated urban area of Hong Kong known for its vibrant street life, markets, and skyline facing Victoria Harbour.
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D.
Niue Time
Niue Time is the standard time observed in the island nation of Niue, a small self-governing state in free association with New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Easter Island Standard Time
Easter Island Standard Time is the time zone used on Chile’s Easter Island, typically four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−6) outside of daylight saving periods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
standard time
ⓘ
time zone ⓘ |
| appliesTo | entire territory of Hong Kong ⓘ |
| country |
Hong Kong
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
|
| daylightSavingTimePolicy | no DST observed since late 20th century ⓘ |
| DSTOffset | none ⓘ |
| follows | China Standard Time ⓘ |
| hasNoSeasonalClockChange | true ⓘ |
| IANATimeZoneIdentifier |
Asia/Hong_Kong
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong Time
|
| isSynchronizedWith |
China Standard Time
ⓘ
Macau Standard Time ⓘ Singapore Time ⓘ
linked to:
Singapore Standard Time
|
| legalStatus | official time of Hong Kong ⓘ |
| observedBy |
government of Hong Kong
ⓘ
residents of Hong Kong ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | false ⓘ |
| offsetFromCoordinatedUniversalTime | +8 hours ⓘ |
| region | East Asia ⓘ |
| standardAbbreviation | HKT ⓘ |
| timeNotation | 24-hour clock ⓘ |
| timeStandardType | fixed offset from UTC ⓘ |
| timeZoneGroup | UTC+8 time zones ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
|
| usesDaylightSavingTime | no ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | UTC+08:00 ⓘ |
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: Hong Kong Time Description of subject: Hong Kong Time is the standard time zone used in Hong Kong, set at UTC+8 without daylight saving time.
Referenced by (171)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hong Kong Time
linked to: Hong Kong Time
linked to: Hong Kong Time
subject linked to:
Faculty of Science