Grand Union Flag
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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.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Grand Union Flag canonical | 8 |
| Cambridge Flag | 2 |
| Congress Flag | 2 |
| First Navy Ensign | 2 |
| Flag Resolution of June 14, 1777 | 1 |
| Flags of the American Revolution | 1 |
| Union Flag of the Protectorate | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3695 — 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: Grand Union Flag Context triple: [Thirteen Colonies, flag, Grand Union Flag]
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A.
The Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner is a patriotic American song, with lyrics written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812, that celebrates the resilience of the U.S. flag and is traditionally performed at public and sporting events.
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B.
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam is the iconic, bearded figure in a star-spangled top hat who personifies the United States in political cartoons, posters, and popular culture.
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C.
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a 1773 colonial protest in which American colonists, opposing British taxation, boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped chests of tea into the water, helping spark the American Revolution.
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D.
Douglas
Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Mayflower landing at Plymouth
The Mayflower landing at Plymouth was the 1620 arrival of English Pilgrims on the coast of present-day Massachusetts, marking one of the foundational moments in early European colonization of North America.
- 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: Grand Union Flag Target entity description: 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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A.
The Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner is a patriotic American song, with lyrics written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812, that celebrates the resilience of the U.S. flag and is traditionally performed at public and sporting events.
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B.
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam is the iconic, bearded figure in a star-spangled top hat who personifies the United States in political cartoons, posters, and popular culture.
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C.
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a 1773 colonial protest in which American colonists, opposing British taxation, boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped chests of tea into the water, helping spark the American Revolution.
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D.
Douglas
Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Mayflower landing at Plymouth
The Mayflower landing at Plymouth was the 1620 arrival of English Pilgrims on the coast of present-day Massachusetts, marking one of the foundational moments in early European colonization of North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag of the United States
ⓘ
historical flag ⓘ national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1775-12-03 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Grand Union Flag
ⓘ
surface form:
Cambridge Flag
Grand Union Flag ⓘ
surface form:
Congress Flag
Continental Colors ⓘ Grand Union Flag ⓘ
surface form:
First Navy Ensign
|
| associatedWithEvent |
early Continental Congress
ⓘ
formation of Continental Army ⓘ |
| cantonDesign |
Union Flag
ⓘ
surface form:
Union Jack of Great Britain
|
| category |
Grand Union Flag
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Flags of the American Revolution
National symbols of the United States ⓘ |
| color |
blue
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era |
American Revolutionary War
ⓘ
surface form:
American Revolution
|
| featuredUnionJackVariant |
Union Flag
ⓘ
surface form:
pre-1801 Union Flag (without St Patrick's saltire)
|
| firstRaisedAt | Prospect Hill, Charlestown, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| firstRaisedBy |
Continental Army
ⓘ
George Washington ⓘ |
| firstRaisedOn | 1776-01-01 ⓘ |
| hasDesignElement |
British Union Jack in canton
ⓘ
thirteen horizontal stripes ⓘ |
| hasType |
civil and military flag
ⓘ
ensign ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 1775–1777 ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | first flag to represent the American colonies as a collective entity ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | British Red Ensign ⓘ |
| legalSuccessorFlag | Flag Resolution of 1777 flag ⓘ |
| numberOfStripes | 13 ⓘ |
| predecessor | various colonial flags of British America ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
United States flag
ⓘ
surface form:
Flag of the United States (Stars and Stripes)
|
| replacedOn | 1777-06-14 ⓘ |
| represents | Thirteen Colonies ⓘ |
| status | defunct national flag ⓘ |
| stripeColors | red and white ⓘ |
| successor |
United States flag
ⓘ
surface form:
13-star Stars and Stripes
|
| symbolizes | union of colonies under British sovereignty ⓘ |
| usedAs |
de facto national flag of the United States
ⓘ
military flag ⓘ naval ensign ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Continental Army
ⓘ
Continental Navy ⓘ Thirteen Colonies ⓘ |
| usedInConflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| usedInGovernmentBody |
Second Continental Congress
ⓘ
surface form:
Continental Congress
|
| usedInRegion | Eastern seaboard of North America ⓘ |
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: Grand Union Flag Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Congress Flag
this entity surface form:
Cambridge Flag
this entity surface form:
First Navy Ensign
this entity surface form:
Flags of the American Revolution
this entity surface form:
Congress Flag
this entity surface form:
Cambridge Flag
this entity surface form:
First Navy Ensign
this entity surface form:
Flag Resolution of June 14, 1777
this entity surface form:
Union Flag of the Protectorate