Taipei Time
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Taipei Time is the time zone used in Taiwan, corresponding to National Standard Time at UTC+8 without daylight saving time.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| National Standard Time (Taiwan) | 8 |
| Taiwan Standard Time | 5 |
| Asia/Taipei | 1 |
| National Standard Time of Taiwan | 1 |
| Taipei Time canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4253048 — 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: Taipei Time Context triple: [National Standard Time, alsoKnownAs, Taipei Time]
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A.
Hong Kong Time
Hong Kong Time is the standard time zone used in Hong Kong, set at UTC+8 without daylight saving time.
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B.
Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei, Taiwan is the capital and largest city of Taiwan, known as a major political, economic, and cultural center in East Asia.
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C.
Taipei–Tokyo
Taipei–Tokyo is a major East Asian air route connecting the capital of Taiwan with Japan’s largest metropolitan area, served by numerous carriers and popular for both business and tourism travel.
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D.
Taipei–Hong Kong
Taipei–Hong Kong is a heavily traveled East Asian air route connecting Taiwan’s capital with Hong Kong, served by numerous carriers and popular for both business and tourism.
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E.
Pyongyang Time
Pyongyang Time is the official standard time used in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, and throughout the country.
- 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: Taipei Time Target entity description: Taipei Time is the time zone used in Taiwan, corresponding to National Standard Time at UTC+8 without daylight saving time.
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A.
Hong Kong Time
Hong Kong Time is the standard time zone used in Hong Kong, set at UTC+8 without daylight saving time.
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B.
Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei, Taiwan is the capital and largest city of Taiwan, known as a major political, economic, and cultural center in East Asia.
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C.
Taipei–Tokyo
Taipei–Tokyo is a major East Asian air route connecting the capital of Taiwan with Japan’s largest metropolitan area, served by numerous carriers and popular for both business and tourism travel.
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D.
Taipei–Hong Kong
Taipei–Hong Kong is a heavily traveled East Asian air route connecting Taiwan’s capital with Hong Kong, served by numerous carriers and popular for both business and tourism.
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E.
Pyongyang Time
Pyongyang Time is the official standard time used in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, and throughout the country.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
standard time
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time zone ⓘ |
| abbreviationUsage | often written as UTC+8 in Taiwan contexts ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
National Standard Time
NERFINISHED
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Taiwan Standard Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| baseMeridian | 120th meridian east (nominal for UTC+8) ⓘ |
| countryUsedIn | Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| currentDSTPolicy | no daylight saving time since late 20th century ⓘ |
| DSTObserved | false ⓘ |
| governingAuthority | government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalDSTUsage | DST observed intermittently in mid-20th century ⓘ |
| IANATimeZoneIdentifier | Asia/Taipei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalStatus | official time of Taiwan ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | no ⓘ |
| offsetFromBeijingTime | same as China Standard Time ⓘ |
| offsetFromHongKongTime | same as Hong Kong Time ⓘ |
| offsetFromJapanStandardTime | same as Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| offsetFromKoreaStandardTime | same as Korea Standard Time ⓘ |
| offsetFromSingaporeTime | same as Singapore Time ⓘ |
| regionCovered |
Kinmen
NERFINISHED
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Matsu Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ Penghu Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ Taiwan Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeNotation | 24-hour clock (de facto in Taiwan) ⓘ |
| timeRelationToUTC | 8 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time ⓘ |
| timeStandardType | single time zone for entire country ⓘ |
| usedFor |
broadcasting schedules in Taiwan
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business hours scheduling in Taiwan ⓘ civil timekeeping in Taiwan ⓘ public transportation timetables in Taiwan ⓘ |
| 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: Taipei Time Description of subject: Taipei Time is the time zone used in Taiwan, corresponding to National Standard Time at UTC+8 without daylight saving time.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Hakka Affairs Council (Taiwan)
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National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Management Office
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locatedInTimeZone
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National Standard Time (Taiwan)
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