Australian time zones
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Australian time zones are the set of official time standards used across Australia and its external territories, encompassing multiple offsets and regional variations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Australian time zones canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10802456 — 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: Australian time zones Context triple: [Norfolk Island Time (standard), isPartOfTimeZoneSystem, Australian time zones]
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A.
Australian Central Daylight Time
Australian Central Daylight Time is the daylight saving time zone used in parts of central Australia, including South Australia and the Northern Territory, during the summer months.
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B.
Australian Western Standard Time
Australian Western Standard Time is the standard time zone used in Western Australia, typically observed at UTC+8 hours.
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C.
Australian Eastern Daylight Time
Australian Eastern Daylight Time is the daylight saving time observed in parts of eastern Australia, including New South Wales, typically at UTC+11.
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D.
Australian Central Standard Time
Australian Central Standard Time is the standard time zone used in central regions of Australia, typically 9 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+9:30).
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E.
Australian Eastern Standard Time
Australian Eastern Standard Time is the standard time zone used in eastern Australia, including major regions such as New South Wales and Queensland, typically 10 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+10).
- 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: Australian time zones Target entity description: Australian time zones are the set of official time standards used across Australia and its external territories, encompassing multiple offsets and regional variations.
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A.
Australian Central Daylight Time
Australian Central Daylight Time is the daylight saving time zone used in parts of central Australia, including South Australia and the Northern Territory, during the summer months.
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B.
Australian Western Standard Time
Australian Western Standard Time is the standard time zone used in Western Australia, typically observed at UTC+8 hours.
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C.
Australian Eastern Daylight Time
Australian Eastern Daylight Time is the daylight saving time observed in parts of eastern Australia, including New South Wales, typically at UTC+11.
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D.
Australian Central Standard Time
Australian Central Standard Time is the standard time zone used in central regions of Australia, typically 9 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+9:30).
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E.
Australian Eastern Standard Time
Australian Eastern Standard Time is the standard time zone used in eastern Australia, including major regions such as New South Wales and Queensland, typically 10 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+10).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
daylight saving time
ⓘ
time zone system ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
ACDT
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ACST NERFINISHED ⓘ ACWST NERFINISHED ⓘ AEDT ⓘ AEST ⓘ AWST ⓘ CCT NERFINISHED ⓘ CXT NERFINISHED ⓘ LHDT NERFINISHED ⓘ LHST NERFINISHED ⓘ NFT ⓘ |
| appliesTo | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coordinatedWith | Coordinated Universal Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| doesNotObserveDaylightSavingIn |
Christmas Island
NERFINISHED
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ Queensland NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesTimeZone |
Australian Central Standard Time
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Australian Central Western Standard Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Australian Eastern Standard Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Australian Western Standard Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Christmas Island Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Cocos Islands Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Lord Howe Standard Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Norfolk Island Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingIn |
Australian Capital Territory
NERFINISHED
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New South Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ Norfolk Island NERFINISHED ⓘ South Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ Tasmania NERFINISHED ⓘ Victoria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulatedBy | Australian state and territory governments ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Australian Capital Territory
NERFINISHED
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Christmas Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Cocos (Keeling) Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ Eucla region of Western Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ Lord Howe Island NERFINISHED ⓘ New South Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ Norfolk Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ Queensland NERFINISHED ⓘ South Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ Tasmania NERFINISHED ⓘ Victoria NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| utcOffset |
+06:30
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+07:00 ⓘ +08:00 ⓘ +08:45 ⓘ +09:30 ⓘ +10:00 ⓘ +10:30 ⓘ +10:30 ⓘ +11:00 ⓘ +11:00 ⓘ +11:00 ⓘ |
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: Australian time zones Description of subject: Australian time zones are the set of official time standards used across Australia and its external territories, encompassing multiple offsets and regional variations.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.