Western European Time
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Western European Time is a standard time zone used in parts of Western Europe, including Portugal, that aligns with Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+0) during the non-daylight saving period.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Western European Time canonical | 1,355 |
| Azores Time | 1 |
| Europe/Lisbon | 1 |
| Western European Time zone | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T44151 — 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: Western European Time Context triple: [Portugal, timeZone, Western European Time]
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A.
Central European Time
Central European Time is a standard time zone used by many countries in central and western Europe, typically one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+1).
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B.
Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time is the daylight saving time observed by many central European countries, running one hour ahead of Central European Time during the summer months.
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C.
Eastern European Time
Eastern European Time is a standard time zone used in parts of Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, typically two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+2).
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D.
Eastern European Summer Time
Eastern European Summer Time is the daylight saving time observed by several Eastern European and Eastern Mediterranean countries, advancing clocks one hour ahead of standard Eastern European Time.
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E.
Time Europe
Time Europe is the European regional edition of the American news magazine Time, tailored to cover international and European news for readers across the continent.
- 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: Western European Time Target entity description: Western European Time is a standard time zone used in parts of Western Europe, including Portugal, that aligns with Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+0) during the non-daylight saving period.
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A.
Central European Time
Central European Time is a standard time zone used by many countries in central and western Europe, typically one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+1).
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B.
Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time is the daylight saving time observed by many central European countries, running one hour ahead of Central European Time during the summer months.
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C.
Eastern European Time
Eastern European Time is a standard time zone used in parts of Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, typically two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+2).
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D.
Eastern European Summer Time
Eastern European Summer Time is the daylight saving time observed by several Eastern European and Eastern Mediterranean countries, advancing clocks one hour ahead of standard Eastern European Time.
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E.
Time Europe
Time Europe is the European regional edition of the American news magazine Time, tailored to cover international and European news for readers across the continent.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
standard time
ⓘ
time zone ⓘ |
| abbreviation | WET ⓘ |
| adjacentOffsetEast | UTC+01:00 ⓘ |
| adjacentOffsetWest | UTC−01:00 ⓘ |
| category | European time zone ⓘ |
| coincidesWithTimeZone |
Greenwich Mean Time (in winter for civil purposes)
ⓘ
linked to:
Greenwich Mean Time
Zulu time (UTC) for offset ⓘ |
| DSTPeriod | replaced by Western European Summer Time in summer months ⓘ |
| DSTVariantAbbreviation | WEST ⓘ |
| DSTVariantUTCOffset | UTC+01:00 ⓘ |
| followsStandard | Coordinated Universal Time ⓘ |
| governingBodyExample | European Union time directive (for EU members using WET) ⓘ |
| hasOffsetSeconds | 0 ⓘ |
| IANAZoneExample |
Africa/Casablanca
ⓘ
Atlantic/Canary ⓘ Europe/Dublin ⓘ Europe/Lisbon ⓘ Europe/London ⓘ |
| nonDSTAlignment | aligned with UTC ⓘ |
| observedInCountry |
Faroe Islands
ⓘ
Morocco ⓘ Portugal ⓘ Spain ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| observedInRegion |
Canary Islands
ⓘ
Ireland ⓘ |
| observedInTerritory |
Azores (historically, before shift to different offset)
ⓘ
linked to:
Azores
Madeira ⓘ |
| offsetFromGMT | 0 hours ⓘ |
| relatedTimeZone |
Central European Time
ⓘ
Eastern European Time ⓘ |
| timeNotation |
12-hour clock (also used in some areas)
ⓘ
24-hour clock (commonly used) ⓘ |
| typicalDSTEndMonth | October ⓘ |
| typicalDSTStartMonth | March ⓘ |
| usedBy |
airline schedules in Western Europe
ⓘ
railway timetables in Portugal ⓘ |
| usedFor | civil timekeeping ⓘ |
| usedInContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| usedInRegion | Western Europe ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTimeVariant | Western European Summer Time ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | UTC+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: Western European Time Description of subject: Western European Time is a standard time zone used in parts of Western Europe, including Portugal, that aligns with Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+0) during the non-daylight saving period.
Referenced by (1,358)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Western European Time