The Grand Old Flag
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The Grand Old Flag is the traditional club song of the Melbourne Demons in the Australian Football League, celebrated by players and fans after victories.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Grand Old Flag | 1 |
| The Grand Old Flag canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6962976 — 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: The Grand Old Flag Context triple: [Demons, clubSongAlsoKnownAs, The Grand Old Flag]
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A.
The Flag
"The Flag" is a lesser-known work associated with British actor Robert Shaw, who is best remembered for his roles in films like "Jaws," "From Russia with Love," and "The Sting."
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B.
Gadsden flag
The Gadsden flag is a historic American banner featuring a coiled rattlesnake and the phrase “Don’t Tread on Me,” widely associated with libertarian and conservative patriot movements.
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C.
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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D.
Three Flags
Three Flags is a 1958 painting by Jasper Johns featuring three superimposed American flags that became an iconic example of his exploration of everyday symbols in modern art.
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E.
Sons of Liberty flag
The Sons of Liberty flag is a Revolutionary-era American banner, often featuring vertical red and white stripes, associated with colonial resistance to British rule and the early patriot movement.
- 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: The Grand Old Flag Target entity description: The Grand Old Flag is the traditional club song of the Melbourne Demons in the Australian Football League, celebrated by players and fans after victories.
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A.
The Flag
"The Flag" is a lesser-known work associated with British actor Robert Shaw, who is best remembered for his roles in films like "Jaws," "From Russia with Love," and "The Sting."
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B.
Gadsden flag
The Gadsden flag is a historic American banner featuring a coiled rattlesnake and the phrase “Don’t Tread on Me,” widely associated with libertarian and conservative patriot movements.
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C.
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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D.
Three Flags
Three Flags is a 1958 painting by Jasper Johns featuring three superimposed American flags that became an iconic example of his exploration of everyday symbols in modern art.
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E.
Sons of Liberty flag
The Sons of Liberty flag is a Revolutionary-era American banner, often featuring vertical red and white stripes, associated with colonial resistance to British rule and the early patriot movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian rules football club song
ⓘ
club song ⓘ |
| associatedCity | Melbourne ⓘ |
| associatedClubNickname | Demons ⓘ |
| associatedColor |
blue
ⓘ
red ⓘ |
| associatedCountry | Australia ⓘ |
| basedOn | You’re a Grand Old Flag ⓘ |
| celebratoryFunction | victory celebration ⓘ |
| isClubSongOf |
Melbourne Demons
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linked to:
Melbourne Football Club
Melbourne Football Club ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leagueContext |
Australian Football League
ⓘ
linked to:
AFL
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| occasion | post‑match victories ⓘ |
| originalSongWriter | George M. Cohan ⓘ |
| performanceContext |
in the change rooms
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in the stands ⓘ on the field ⓘ |
| performanceType | sung ⓘ |
| sport | Australian rules football ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Melbourne Demons identity
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club pride ⓘ team spirit ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Melbourne Demons fans
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Melbourne Demons players ⓘ |
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: The Grand Old Flag Description of subject: The Grand Old Flag is the traditional club song of the Melbourne Demons in the Australian Football League, celebrated by players and fans after victories.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
You’re a Grand Old Flag
linked to: The Grand Old Flag