Pacific/Efate
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Pacific/Efate is the IANA time zone identifier used for the island nation of Vanuatu in the South Pacific.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pacific/Efate canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10802420 — 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: Pacific/Efate Context triple: [Vanuatu Time, IANATimeZoneIdentifier, Pacific/Efate]
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A.
Pacific/Truk
Pacific/Truk is an obsolete IANA time zone identifier that historically referred to the local time observed in Chuuk, Micronesia.
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B.
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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C.
PACIFIC
PACIFIC is the airline callsign used in radio communications to identify Fiji Airways flights.
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D.
West Coast–Tasman
West Coast–Tasman is a large, predominantly rural New Zealand parliamentary electorate on the South Island, encompassing the West Coast and parts of the Tasman region.
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E.
Okanisi
Okanisi is another name for the Ndyuka Maroons, a community of African-descended people in Suriname and French Guiana known for their distinct language and culture formed through resistance to slavery.
- 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: Pacific/Efate Target entity description: Pacific/Efate is the IANA time zone identifier used for the island nation of Vanuatu in the South Pacific.
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A.
Pacific/Truk
Pacific/Truk is an obsolete IANA time zone identifier that historically referred to the local time observed in Chuuk, Micronesia.
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B.
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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C.
PACIFIC
PACIFIC is the airline callsign used in radio communications to identify Fiji Airways flights.
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D.
West Coast–Tasman
West Coast–Tasman is a large, predominantly rural New Zealand parliamentary electorate on the South Island, encompassing the West Coast and parts of the Tasman region.
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E.
Okanisi
Okanisi is another name for the Ndyuka Maroons, a community of African-descended people in Suriname and French Guiana known for their distinct language and culture formed through resistance to slavery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | IANA time zone identifier ⓘ |
| area | Pacific ⓘ |
| country | Vanuatu ⓘ |
| databaseIdentifier | Pacific/Efate ⓘ |
| hasStableOffsetSince | 1994-01-01 ⓘ |
| ianaTimeZoneName | Pacific/Efate ⓘ |
| ianaZoneFile | pacific ⓘ |
| ianaZoneFormat | Area/Location ⓘ |
| island | Efate ⓘ |
| isPrimaryTimeZoneFor | Vanuatu ⓘ |
| latitudeApproximate | -17.75 ⓘ |
| location | Efate ⓘ |
| longitudeApproximate | 168.3 ⓘ |
| observesCountryTime | Vanuatu ⓘ |
| offsetSecondsFromUTC | 39600 ⓘ |
| olsonFormatName | Pacific/Efate ⓘ |
| previousDaylightSavingObserved | true ⓘ |
| previousDSTAbbreviation | VUST ⓘ |
| previousDSTOffsetFromUTC | +12:00 ⓘ |
| principalCity | Port Vila ⓘ |
| regionCode | VU ⓘ |
| servesTerritory | Vanuatu ⓘ |
| standardTimeOffsetFromUTC | +11:00 ⓘ |
| timeZoneAbbreviationStandard | VUT ⓘ |
| timeZoneDatabase | IANA time zone database ⓘ |
| timeZoneOffsetType | UTC+11 ⓘ |
| timeZoneRegion | Pacific ⓘ |
| usedInComputingSystems | true ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | false ⓘ |
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: Pacific/Efate Description of subject: Pacific/Efate is the IANA time zone identifier used for the island nation of Vanuatu in the South Pacific.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.