Flag of British North Borneo
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The Flag of British North Borneo was a colonial-era banner featuring a blue field with the territory’s coat of arms, symbolizing the British North Borneo Company’s administration in what is now part of Malaysia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of British North Borneo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8690096 — 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 British North Borneo Context triple: [British North Borneo, flag, Flag of British North Borneo]
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A.
Flag of the Kingdom of Sarawak
The Flag of the Kingdom of Sarawak was the distinctive colonial-era banner of the Brooke dynasty’s White Rajah rule in Borneo, featuring a yellow field with a central red and black cross.
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B.
Flag of the Federated Malay States
The Flag of the Federated Malay States was a colonial-era banner used from 1895 to 1946 in British Malaya, featuring four equal stripes of red, white, black, and yellow with a central emblem symbolizing the federation of its constituent Malay states.
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C.
Flag of Brunei
The Flag of Brunei is a yellow field with diagonal white and black stripes and a central red crest featuring a parasol, wings, hands, and Arabic script, symbolizing the nation's monarchy and Islamic heritage.
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D.
Flag of the Malayan Union
The Flag of the Malayan Union was a short-lived colonial-era banner featuring horizontal stripes and a central Union Jack, symbolizing British authority over the Malayan territories from 1946 to 1948.
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E.
Flag of Perak
The Flag of Perak is the official state flag of Perak, Malaysia, featuring horizontal bands of white, yellow, and black that symbolize the Sultan, the royal family, and the people.
- 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 British North Borneo Target entity description: The Flag of British North Borneo was a colonial-era banner featuring a blue field with the territory’s coat of arms, symbolizing the British North Borneo Company’s administration in what is now part of Malaysia.
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A.
Flag of the Kingdom of Sarawak
The Flag of the Kingdom of Sarawak was the distinctive colonial-era banner of the Brooke dynasty’s White Rajah rule in Borneo, featuring a yellow field with a central red and black cross.
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B.
Flag of the Federated Malay States
The Flag of the Federated Malay States was a colonial-era banner used from 1895 to 1946 in British Malaya, featuring four equal stripes of red, white, black, and yellow with a central emblem symbolizing the federation of its constituent Malay states.
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C.
Flag of Brunei
The Flag of Brunei is a yellow field with diagonal white and black stripes and a central red crest featuring a parasol, wings, hands, and Arabic script, symbolizing the nation's monarchy and Islamic heritage.
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D.
Flag of the Malayan Union
The Flag of the Malayan Union was a short-lived colonial-era banner featuring horizontal stripes and a central Union Jack, symbolizing British authority over the Malayan territories from 1946 to 1948.
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E.
Flag of Perak
The Flag of Perak is the official state flag of Perak, Malaysia, featuring horizontal bands of white, yellow, and black that symbolize the Sultan, the royal family, and the people.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial flag
ⓘ
flag ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
British Empire
ⓘ
colonial Borneo ⓘ |
| category |
flag of a former British colony
ⓘ
historical flag of Malaysia ⓘ |
| country | British North Borneo ⓘ |
| designElement |
coat of arms of British North Borneo
ⓘ
linked to:
Coat of arms of British North Borneo
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| fieldColor | blue ⓘ |
| hasEmblem |
motto scroll
ⓘ
shield ⓘ supporters ⓘ |
| historicalEra | colonial era ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
Flag of Malaysia
ⓘ
Flag of Sabah ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
administration of British North Borneo Company
ⓘ
colonial authority in North Borneo ⓘ |
| usedBy |
British North Borneo (territory)
ⓘ
linked to:
British North Borneo
British North Borneo Company ⓘ
linked to:
British North Borneo
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| usedFrom | late 19th century ⓘ |
| usedInAreaNowPartOf | Malaysia ⓘ |
| usedInRegion | Borneo ⓘ |
| usedOn |
government buildings
ⓘ
official vessels ⓘ |
| usedUntil | mid 20th century ⓘ |
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 British North Borneo Description of subject: The Flag of British North Borneo was a colonial-era banner featuring a blue field with the territory’s coat of arms, symbolizing the British North Borneo Company’s administration in what is now part of Malaysia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.