Saint Piran's Flag
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Saint Piran's Flag is the traditional black flag with a white cross that serves as the widely recognized symbol of Cornwall and Cornish identity.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint Piran's Flag canonical | 3 |
| Cornish flag | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5020036 — 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: Saint Piran's Flag Context triple: [Cornwall, hasFlag, Saint Piran's Flag]
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A.
Prince's Flag
Prince's Flag was an early Dutch national flag associated with the House of Orange and used by the United Provinces during the Dutch Revolt and the early Dutch Republic.
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B.
Gwenn-ha-du flag
The Gwenn-ha-du flag is the modern black-and-white banner that symbolizes the cultural and historical identity of Brittany in northwestern France.
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C.
Starry Plough flag
The Starry Plough flag is a historic Irish socialist and republican banner featuring a constellation of stars on a plough, symbolizing the working class and its struggle for social and national liberation.
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D.
Moor's head flag
The Moor's head flag is the historic emblem of Corsica, featuring a black Moor's head in profile on a white field and symbolizing the island's identity and struggle for freedom.
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E.
Saint Helena flag
The Saint Helena flag is a British Blue Ensign defaced with the island’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic.
- 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: Saint Piran's Flag Target entity description: Saint Piran's Flag is the traditional black flag with a white cross that serves as the widely recognized symbol of Cornwall and Cornish identity.
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A.
Prince's Flag
Prince's Flag was an early Dutch national flag associated with the House of Orange and used by the United Provinces during the Dutch Revolt and the early Dutch Republic.
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B.
Gwenn-ha-du flag
The Gwenn-ha-du flag is the modern black-and-white banner that symbolizes the cultural and historical identity of Brittany in northwestern France.
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C.
Starry Plough flag
The Starry Plough flag is a historic Irish socialist and republican banner featuring a constellation of stars on a plough, symbolizing the working class and its struggle for social and national liberation.
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D.
Moor's head flag
The Moor's head flag is the historic emblem of Corsica, featuring a black Moor's head in profile on a white field and symbolizing the island's identity and struggle for freedom.
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E.
Saint Helena flag
The Saint Helena flag is a British Blue Ensign defaced with the island’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag
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regional flag ⓘ symbol ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Celtic identity
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Celtic nations ⓘ Cornish culture ⓘ Cornish language movement ⓘ Saint Piran's Day ⓘ |
| color |
black
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| countryOrRegion | Cornwall ⓘ |
| culturalStatus |
emblem of Cornish identity
ⓘ
widely recognized symbol of Cornwall ⓘ |
| design | white cross on a black field ⓘ |
| hasAspectRatio | 3:5 ⓘ |
| hasCrossType | straight cross ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | unofficial flag of Cornwall ⓘ |
| interpretation | white cross symbolizing tin on black ore ⓘ |
| ISORegion | GB-Cornwall ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Cornish ⓘ |
| localName | Baner Peran (Cornish) ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Saint Piran ⓘ |
| partOf | Cornish symbols ⓘ |
| religiousAssociation |
Christianity
ⓘ
Saint Piran ⓘ |
| represents |
Cornish heritage
ⓘ
Cornish mining heritage ⓘ |
| shape | rectangular ⓘ |
| similarTo | other regional flags with crosses ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
Cornish identity
ⓘ
Cornish nationalism ⓘ Cornish people ⓘ Cornwall ⓘ |
| usedAs |
civil flag
ⓘ
regional flag of Cornwall ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Cornish cultural organizations
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Cornish nationalist groups ⓘ Cornish people ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Cornish festivals
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political demonstrations in Cornwall ⓘ sporting events in Cornwall ⓘ tourism promotion for Cornwall ⓘ |
| usedOn | Saint Piran's Day ⓘ |
| usedSince | 19th century ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet (name in English) ⓘ |
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: Saint Piran's Flag Description of subject: Saint Piran's Flag is the traditional black flag with a white cross that serves as the widely recognized symbol of Cornwall and Cornish identity.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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