Flag of Costa Rica
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The Flag of Costa Rica is a horizontal tricolor of blue, white, and red with the national coat of arms on the red stripe, symbolizing the country’s democratic traditions, natural beauty, and historical ties to Central America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Costa Rica canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T811307 — 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: Flag of Costa Rica Context triple: [Flags of North America, includesFlagOf, Flag of Costa Rica]
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A.
Flag of Guatemala
The Flag of Guatemala is a vertical blue-white-blue tricolor featuring the national coat of arms with a quetzal bird, symbolizing liberty and the country's location between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
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B.
Flag of Nicaragua
The Flag of Nicaragua is a horizontal blue-white-blue tricolor featuring the country’s coat of arms at the center, symbolizing liberty, peace, and its Central American heritage.
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C.
Flag of Honduras
The Flag of Honduras is a horizontal triband of blue-white-blue with five blue stars arranged in an X pattern in the center, symbolizing the country's place in Central America and its hope for regional unity.
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D.
Flag of Belize
The Flag of Belize is a blue field with red stripes and a central white disc featuring the national coat of arms, symbolizing the country’s colonial history, diverse population, and forestry-based heritage.
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E.
Flag of the Organization of American States
The Flag of the Organization of American States features the OAS emblem—an array of member states’ flags arranged in a circular pattern—on a solid blue field, symbolizing unity and cooperation among the countries of the Americas.
- 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: Flag of Costa Rica Target entity description: The Flag of Costa Rica is a horizontal tricolor of blue, white, and red with the national coat of arms on the red stripe, symbolizing the country’s democratic traditions, natural beauty, and historical ties to Central America.
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A.
Flag of Guatemala
The Flag of Guatemala is a vertical blue-white-blue tricolor featuring the national coat of arms with a quetzal bird, symbolizing liberty and the country's location between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
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B.
Flag of Nicaragua
The Flag of Nicaragua is a horizontal blue-white-blue tricolor featuring the country’s coat of arms at the center, symbolizing liberty, peace, and its Central American heritage.
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C.
Flag of Honduras
The Flag of Honduras is a horizontal triband of blue-white-blue with five blue stars arranged in an X pattern in the center, symbolizing the country's place in Central America and its hope for regional unity.
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D.
Flag of Belize
The Flag of Belize is a blue field with red stripes and a central white disc featuring the national coat of arms, symbolizing the country’s colonial history, diverse population, and forestry-based heritage.
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E.
Flag of the Organization of American States
The Flag of the Organization of American States features the OAS emblem—an array of member states’ flags arranged in a circular pattern—on a solid blue field, symbolizing unity and cooperation among the countries of the Americas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adopted | 1848-11-27 ⓘ |
| capitalCityCountry | San José ⓘ |
| category | Flags of Central American countries ⓘ |
| centralStripeColor | red ⓘ |
| country | Costa Rica ⓘ |
| designer | Pacífica Fernández Oreamuno ⓘ |
| designInfluence | French tricolor ⓘ |
| designType | horizontal tricolor ⓘ |
| emblemPosition |
on red stripe
ⓘ
toward hoist side ⓘ |
| hasElement |
Mesoamerican isthmus in coat of arms
ⓘ
merchant ships in coat of arms ⓘ rising sun in coat of arms ⓘ three volcanoes in coat of arms ⓘ two oceans in coat of arms ⓘ |
| hasEmblem |
Coat of arms of Costa Rica
ⓘ
surface form:
coat of arms of Costa Rica
|
| hasStripe |
blue stripe
ⓘ
central red stripe ⓘ inner white stripes ⓘ outer blue stripes ⓘ red stripe ⓘ white stripe ⓘ |
| innerStripeColor | white ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
French tricolour
ⓘ
surface form:
Flag of France
|
| legalStatus | defined in Costa Rican law ⓘ |
| officialLanguageCountry | Spanish ⓘ |
| outerStripeColor | blue ⓘ |
| proportion | 3:5 ⓘ |
| region | Central America ⓘ |
| sideRatio | 3:5 ⓘ |
| stripeCount | 5 ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
blood shed for freedom
ⓘ
coasts and seas ⓘ democratic traditions ⓘ freedom ⓘ historical ties to Central America ⓘ natural beauty ⓘ peace ⓘ sky and opportunities ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Costa Rica
ⓘ
civil population of Costa Rica ⓘ |
| usesColor |
blue
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| variant |
civil flag of Costa Rica
ⓘ
state flag of Costa Rica ⓘ war flag of Costa Rica ⓘ |
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: Flag of Costa Rica Description of subject: The Flag of Costa Rica is a horizontal tricolor of blue, white, and red with the national coat of arms on the red stripe, symbolizing the country’s democratic traditions, natural beauty, and historical ties to Central America.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.