Africa/Casablanca
E826533
Africa/Casablanca is the IANA time zone identifier corresponding to the standard time observed in Casablanca, Morocco.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Africa/Casablanca canonical | 10 |
| Morocco standard time zone | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9876953 — 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: Africa/Casablanca Context triple: [Place El Hedim, locatedInTimeZone, Africa/Casablanca]
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A.
ASFAR Rabat
ASFAR Rabat is a prominent Moroccan multi-sport club best known for its successful football team, traditionally associated with the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces and based in the capital city, Rabat.
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B.
Greater Casablanca
Greater Casablanca was a former administrative region of Morocco centered on the city of Casablanca, serving as a major economic and urban hub of the country.
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C.
El Aaiún
El Aaiún is the largest city and de facto administrative center of Western Sahara, located near the Atlantic coast in the disputed territory controlled by Morocco.
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D.
Casablanca-Settat region
The Casablanca-Settat region is an administrative region in western Morocco that includes the country’s largest city and economic hub, Casablanca, along with surrounding urban and rural areas.
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E.
Marrakesh
Marrakesh is a historic and vibrant city in western Morocco, renowned for its bustling medina, iconic red sandstone architecture, and rich cultural heritage.
- 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: Africa/Casablanca Target entity description: Africa/Casablanca is the IANA time zone identifier corresponding to the standard time observed in Casablanca, Morocco.
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A.
ASFAR Rabat
ASFAR Rabat is a prominent Moroccan multi-sport club best known for its successful football team, traditionally associated with the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces and based in the capital city, Rabat.
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B.
Greater Casablanca
Greater Casablanca was a former administrative region of Morocco centered on the city of Casablanca, serving as a major economic and urban hub of the country.
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C.
El Aaiún
El Aaiún is the largest city and de facto administrative center of Western Sahara, located near the Atlantic coast in the disputed territory controlled by Morocco.
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D.
Casablanca-Settat region
The Casablanca-Settat region is an administrative region in western Morocco that includes the country’s largest city and economic hub, Casablanca, along with surrounding urban and rural areas.
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E.
Marrakesh
Marrakesh is a historic and vibrant city in western Morocco, renowned for its bustling medina, iconic red sandstone architecture, and rich cultural heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | IANA time zone identifier ⓘ |
| areaComponent | Africa ⓘ |
| city | Casablanca ⓘ |
| country | Morocco ⓘ |
| countryCode | MA ⓘ |
| databaseFile |
africa
ⓘ
linked to:
Africa
|
| hasHistoricalOffsetChanges | true ⓘ |
| hasRamadanTimeAdjustmentsHistorically | true ⓘ |
| ianaTimeZoneDatabase |
tz database
ⓘ
linked to:
IANA time zone database
|
| ianaZoneFormat | Area/Location ⓘ |
| linkedToCountry | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: MA ⓘ |
| locationComponent | Casablanca ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | IANA Time Zone Database maintainers ⓘ |
| observesTimeFor |
Greater Casablanca area
ⓘ
linked to:
Greater Casablanca
|
| primaryLanguageRegion |
Arabic
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| region | Africa ⓘ |
| standardTimeObservedIn |
Casablanca
ⓘ
Morocco ⓘ |
| timeZoneAbbreviationDstTypical | WEST ⓘ |
| timeZoneAbbreviationTypical | WET ⓘ |
| timeZoneDatabaseName | Africa/Casablanca ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Linux distributions
ⓘ
Unix-like operating systems ⓘ macOS ⓘ some programming languages and libraries ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
| utcOffsetDaylightSaving | +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: Africa/Casablanca Description of subject: Africa/Casablanca is the IANA time zone identifier corresponding to the standard time observed in Casablanca, Morocco.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Africa/Casablanca