Flag of Montana
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The Flag of Montana is the U.S. state flag featuring the state seal—depicting Montana’s natural landscapes and mining heritage—on a blue field with the word “Montana” above it.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Montana canonical | 2 |
| Flag of the State of Montana | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8444730 — 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 Montana Context triple: [Oro y Plata, usedOn, Flag of Montana]
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A.
Flag of Arizona
The Flag of Arizona is the state flag featuring a copper-colored star symbolizing the state's mining heritage, set against rays of red and yellow and a blue lower half representing the western setting sun and liberty.
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B.
Flag of Wisconsin
The Flag of Wisconsin is the official state flag featuring the state coat of arms on a blue field, symbolizing Wisconsin’s history of mining, agriculture, manufacturing, and navigation.
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C.
Flag of West Virginia
The Flag of West Virginia is the U.S. state's banner featuring its coat of arms with a farmer and miner flanking a rock inscribed with the date of statehood, surrounded by rhododendron, on a white field bordered in dark blue.
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D.
Flag of Vermont
The Flag of Vermont is the U.S. state flag featuring the state coat of arms on a blue field, symbolizing its natural landscape, agricultural heritage, and independent spirit.
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E.
Flag of New Mexico
The Flag of New Mexico is a bright yellow banner featuring a red Zia sun symbol, reflecting the state’s Native American heritage and Spanish colonial history.
- 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 Montana Target entity description: The Flag of Montana is the U.S. state flag featuring the state seal—depicting Montana’s natural landscapes and mining heritage—on a blue field with the word “Montana” above it.
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A.
Flag of Arizona
The Flag of Arizona is the state flag featuring a copper-colored star symbolizing the state's mining heritage, set against rays of red and yellow and a blue lower half representing the western setting sun and liberty.
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B.
Flag of Wisconsin
The Flag of Wisconsin is the official state flag featuring the state coat of arms on a blue field, symbolizing Wisconsin’s history of mining, agriculture, manufacturing, and navigation.
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C.
Flag of West Virginia
The Flag of West Virginia is the U.S. state's banner featuring its coat of arms with a farmer and miner flanking a rock inscribed with the date of statehood, surrounded by rhododendron, on a white field bordered in dark blue.
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D.
Flag of Vermont
The Flag of Vermont is the U.S. state flag featuring the state coat of arms on a blue field, symbolizing its natural landscape, agricultural heritage, and independent spirit.
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E.
Flag of New Mexico
The Flag of New Mexico is a bright yellow banner featuring a red Zia sun symbol, reflecting the state’s Native American heritage and Spanish colonial history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. state flag
ⓘ
flag ⓘ |
| adopted | 1905 ⓘ |
| backgroundColor | blue ⓘ |
| borderColorOfSeal | gold ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of states of the United States
ⓘ
Montana state symbols ⓘ |
| color |
blue
ⓘ
brown ⓘ gold ⓘ green ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| designChange | lettering style of the word MONTANA ⓘ |
| designElement |
Great Falls of the Missouri River
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Falls of the Missouri
landscape scene ⓘ mountains ⓘ pickaxe ⓘ plains ⓘ plow ⓘ rising sun ⓘ shovel ⓘ |
| displaysText |
MONTANA
ⓘ
linked to:
Montana
|
| emblem | Great Seal of the State of Montana ⓘ |
| fieldColor | blue ⓘ |
| flagType |
civil flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ |
| languageOfText | English ⓘ |
| modified | 1985 ⓘ |
| motto | Oro y Plata ⓘ |
| mottoLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| mottoMeaning | Gold and Silver ⓘ |
| officiallyStandardized | 1981 ⓘ |
| proportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| represents | Montana ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| sealShape | circular ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Montana’s mining heritage
ⓘ
Montana’s natural landscapes ⓘ |
| textColor | gold ⓘ |
| textPosition | above the state seal ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Montana
ⓘ
linked to:
government of Montana
State of Montana ⓘ
linked to:
Montana
|
| uses | Great Seal of the State of Montana ⓘ |
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 Montana Description of subject: The Flag of Montana is the U.S. state flag featuring the state seal—depicting Montana’s natural landscapes and mining heritage—on a blue field with the word “Montana” above it.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Flag of Montana
linked to: Flag of Montana