Puerto Rican coat of arms
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The Puerto Rican coat of arms is the official heraldic emblem of Puerto Rico, featuring a green shield with a lamb and flag motif surrounded by symbols reflecting the island’s Spanish colonial history, Catholic heritage, and cultural identity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Puerto Rican coat of arms canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T61339 — 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: Puerto Rican coat of arms Context triple: [La Borinqueña, associatedWith, Puerto Rican coat of arms]
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A.
Puerto Rican flag
The Puerto Rican flag is a red, white, and blue banner featuring five horizontal stripes and a single white star within a blue triangle, symbolizing the island’s identity and political history.
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B.
Coat of arms of the United States Virgin Islands
The Coat of arms of the United States Virgin Islands is the official emblem featuring a simplified version of the U.S. eagle holding symbols of peace and defense, representing the territory’s identity and its connection to the United States.
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C.
Mexican flag
The Mexican flag is a vertical tricolor of green, white, and red featuring a national coat of arms with an eagle devouring a snake atop a cactus, symbolizing the country’s heritage and identity.
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D.
Flag of the Organization of American States
The Flag of the Organization of American States features the OAS emblem—an array of member states’ flags arranged in a circular pattern—on a solid blue field, symbolizing unity and cooperation among the countries of the Americas.
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E.
Coat of arms of Bermuda
The Coat of arms of Bermuda is the official heraldic emblem of the British Overseas Territory, featuring a red lion holding a shield that depicts a shipwreck on a rock, symbolizing the islands’ maritime history and perilous reefs.
- 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: Puerto Rican coat of arms Target entity description: The Puerto Rican coat of arms is the official heraldic emblem of Puerto Rico, featuring a green shield with a lamb and flag motif surrounded by symbols reflecting the island’s Spanish colonial history, Catholic heritage, and cultural identity.
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A.
Puerto Rican flag
The Puerto Rican flag is a red, white, and blue banner featuring five horizontal stripes and a single white star within a blue triangle, symbolizing the island’s identity and political history.
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B.
Coat of arms of the United States Virgin Islands
The Coat of arms of the United States Virgin Islands is the official emblem featuring a simplified version of the U.S. eagle holding symbols of peace and defense, representing the territory’s identity and its connection to the United States.
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C.
Mexican flag
The Mexican flag is a vertical tricolor of green, white, and red featuring a national coat of arms with an eagle devouring a snake atop a cactus, symbolizing the country’s heritage and identity.
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D.
Flag of the Organization of American States
The Flag of the Organization of American States features the OAS emblem—an array of member states’ flags arranged in a circular pattern—on a solid blue field, symbolizing unity and cooperation among the countries of the Americas.
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E.
Coat of arms of Bermuda
The Coat of arms of Bermuda is the official heraldic emblem of the British Overseas Territory, featuring a red lion holding a shield that depicts a shipwreck on a rock, symbolizing the islands’ maritime history and perilous reefs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coat of arms
ⓘ
national emblem ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Puerto Rico
ⓘ
surface form:
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
John the Baptist ⓘ
surface form:
Saint John the Baptist
|
| bannerSymbolizes | Christian victory ⓘ |
| category |
Coats of arms of dependent territories
ⓘ
Coats of arms with crosses ⓘ Coats of arms with lambs ⓘ National symbols of Puerto Rico ⓘ |
| centralCharge | Agnus Dei ⓘ |
| centralChargeDepicts | Lamb of God with a banner ⓘ |
| country | Puerto Rico ⓘ |
| dateOfOriginalGrant | 1511 ⓘ |
| designInfluencedBy |
Catholic iconography
ⓘ
Spanish heraldry ⓘ |
| features |
Catholic symbols
ⓘ
Spanish royal symbols ⓘ banner ⓘ castle ⓘ crosses ⓘ flag ⓘ lamb ⓘ lion ⓘ |
| fieldColor | vert ⓘ |
| grantedBy |
Spanish monarchy
ⓘ
surface form:
Spanish Crown
|
| grantedTo |
San Juan
ⓘ
surface form:
San Juan, Puerto Rico
|
| hasMotto | Joannes Est Nomen Ejus ⓘ |
| historicalOrigin | Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| lambSymbolizes | Jesus Christ ⓘ |
| mottoLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| mottoTranslation | John is his name ⓘ |
| officialIn | Puerto Rico ⓘ |
| officialStatus | current ⓘ |
| oneOfOldestCoatsOfArmsInAmericas | true ⓘ |
| reinstatedBy | Government of Puerto Rico ⓘ |
| reinstatedYear | 1905 ⓘ |
| represents |
Puerto Rican people
ⓘ
Puerto Rican sovereignty ⓘ |
| scriptOnMotto | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| shieldColor | green ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Catholic heritage of Puerto Rico
ⓘ
Puerto Rican cultural identity ⓘ Spanish colonial history of Puerto Rico ⓘ |
| usedAlongside |
Puerto Rican flag
ⓘ
surface form:
Flag of Puerto Rico
|
| usedBy | Government of Puerto Rico ⓘ |
| usedOn |
government seals of Puerto Rico
ⓘ
official buildings of Puerto Rico ⓘ official documents of Puerto Rico ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Puerto Rican coat of arms Description of subject: The Puerto Rican coat of arms is the official heraldic emblem of Puerto Rico, featuring a green shield with a lamb and flag motif surrounded by symbols reflecting the island’s Spanish colonial history, Catholic heritage, and cultural identity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.