United States flag
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The United States flag is the national banner of the United States, featuring thirteen red and white stripes and fifty white stars on a blue field to symbolize the original colonies and current states.
All labels observed (16)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17332 — 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: United States flag Context triple: [The Star-Spangled Banner, subject, United States flag]
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A.
Flag of the United Nations
The Flag of the United Nations is a light blue banner featuring a white world map surrounded by olive branches, symbolizing global peace and international cooperation.
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B.
Flag of the President of the United States
The Flag of the President of the United States is the official standard displaying the presidential coat of arms on a dark blue field, used to represent the office and presence of the U.S. president.
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C.
Puerto Rican flag
The Puerto Rican flag is a red, white, and blue banner featuring five horizontal stripes and a single white star within a blue triangle, symbolizing the island’s identity and political history.
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D.
Grand Union Flag
The Grand Union Flag was the first national flag of the United States, combining the British Union Jack with thirteen stripes representing the original American colonies during the early stages of the Revolutionary War.
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E.
Union Flag
The Union Flag, commonly known as the Union Jack, is the national flag of the United Kingdom, combining the crosses of England, Scotland, and (historically) Ireland into a single design.
- 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: United States flag Target entity description: The United States flag is the national banner of the United States, featuring thirteen red and white stripes and fifty white stars on a blue field to symbolize the original colonies and current states.
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A.
Flag of the United Nations
The Flag of the United Nations is a light blue banner featuring a white world map surrounded by olive branches, symbolizing global peace and international cooperation.
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B.
Flag of the President of the United States
The Flag of the President of the United States is the official standard displaying the presidential coat of arms on a dark blue field, used to represent the office and presence of the U.S. president.
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C.
Puerto Rican flag
The Puerto Rican flag is a red, white, and blue banner featuring five horizontal stripes and a single white star within a blue triangle, symbolizing the island’s identity and political history.
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D.
Grand Union Flag
The Grand Union Flag was the first national flag of the United States, combining the British Union Jack with thirteen stripes representing the original American colonies during the early stages of the Revolutionary War.
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E.
Union Flag
The Union Flag, commonly known as the Union Jack, is the national flag of the United Kingdom, combining the crosses of England, Scotland, and (historically) Ireland into a single design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
national flag
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national symbol ⓘ |
| adoptedBy |
Second Continental Congress
ⓘ
surface form:
Continental Congress
|
| adoptionDate | 1777-06-14 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
United States flag
ⓘ
surface form:
Old Glory
United States flag ⓘ
surface form:
Stars and Stripes
The Star-Spangled Banner ⓘ |
| associatedHoliday |
Flag Day
ⓘ
Independence Day ⓘ |
| associatedRitual | Pledge of Allegiance ⓘ |
| associatedSong | The Star-Spangled Banner ⓘ |
| cantonColor | blue ⓘ |
| category |
Flags introduced in 1777
ⓘ
Flags of North America ⓘ National symbols of the United States ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| currentDesignAdoptionDate | 1960-07-04 ⓘ |
| designerOfCurrentArrangement | Robert G. Heft ⓘ |
| designFeature |
blue canton
ⓘ
fifty white stars ⓘ thirteen horizontal stripes ⓘ |
| displayOrientation |
stars in upper left when hung horizontally
ⓘ
stars in upper right when hung vertically ⓘ |
| fieldColor |
blue
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| governingStandard | United States Flag Code ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
U.S. civil ensign
ⓘ
Naval jack of the United States ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. naval jack
|
| legalBasis |
Grand Union Flag
ⓘ
surface form:
Flag Resolution of June 14, 1777
|
| numberOfStars | 50 ⓘ |
| numberOfStripes | 13 ⓘ |
| proportion | 10:19 ⓘ |
| starColor | white ⓘ |
| stripeArrangement | alternating red and white ⓘ |
| stripeColor |
red
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
13 original colonies
ⓘ
50 U.S. states ⓘ freedom ⓘ national unity ⓘ patriotism ⓘ |
| usedIn |
U.S. consulates
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U.S. embassies ⓘ government buildings ⓘ military installations ⓘ national holidays ⓘ public schools ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: United States flag Description of subject: The United States flag is the national banner of the United States, featuring thirteen red and white stripes and fifty white stars on a blue field to symbolize the original colonies and current states.
Referenced by (86)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Star-Spangled Banner flag
this entity surface form:
American flag
this entity surface form:
Flag of the United States (Stars and Stripes)
this entity surface form:
13-star Stars and Stripes
this entity surface form:
Naval ensign of the United States
this entity surface form:
Flag of the United States
this entity surface form:
Flag of the United States (Stars and Stripes)
this entity surface form:
Stars and Stripes
this entity surface form:
Old Glory
this entity surface form:
Star-Spangled Banner flag
this entity surface form:
American flag
this entity surface form:
Flag of the United States
this entity surface form:
United States national ensign
this entity surface form:
American flag
subject surface form:
"Don’t Tread on Me" (associated naval ensign)
this entity surface form:
Flags of the United States
this entity surface form:
Flag of the United States
this entity surface form:
United States flags
this entity surface form:
United States national flag
this entity surface form:
Stars and Stripes
this entity surface form:
Flag of the United States
this entity surface form:
American flag
this entity surface form:
Flag of the United States
subject surface form:
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
this entity surface form:
flag of the United States
this entity surface form:
Star-Spangled Banner flag
this entity surface form:
Flag of the United States
this entity surface form:
American flag
this entity surface form:
Betsy Ross flag
this entity surface form:
Flag of the United States
this entity surface form:
50-star flag of the United States
this entity surface form:
American flag
this entity surface form:
Flag of the United States
this entity surface form:
Flag of the United States
this entity surface form:
Flag of the United States
this entity surface form:
American flag
this entity surface form:
United States national flag
this entity surface form:
American flag
this entity surface form:
Flag of the United States
this entity surface form:
Flag of the United States
this entity surface form:
American flag