United States Coast Guard flag
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The United States Coast Guard flag is the official standard of the U.S. Coast Guard, featuring its emblem and used to represent the service in official, ceremonial, and operational contexts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| United States Coast Guard flag canonical | 1 |
| United States Coast Guard symbols | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1298554 — 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: United States Coast Guard flag Context triple: [United States Coast Guard emblem, relatedTo, United States Coast Guard flag]
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A.
U.S. civil ensign
The U.S. civil ensign is a specialized maritime flag used by American civilian vessels to denote their national identity at sea.
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B.
Naval jack of the United States
The Naval jack of the United States is a maritime flag flown by U.S. Navy ships at the bow, historically featuring a blue field with white stars symbolizing the states of the Union.
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C.
United States Coast Guard emblem
The United States Coast Guard emblem is the official insignia featuring a life ring, crossed anchors, and the service’s name and founding date, symbolizing its maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement missions.
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D.
Flag of the United States Department of Defense
The Flag of the United States Department of Defense is the official banner representing the U.S. Department of Defense, typically featuring its emblem on a plain field and used for ceremonial and official departmental purposes.
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E.
Flag of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Flag of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the distinctive personal standard used to represent the highest-ranking military officer in the United States Armed Forces.
- 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: United States Coast Guard flag Target entity description: The United States Coast Guard flag is the official standard of the U.S. Coast Guard, featuring its emblem and used to represent the service in official, ceremonial, and operational contexts.
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A.
U.S. civil ensign
The U.S. civil ensign is a specialized maritime flag used by American civilian vessels to denote their national identity at sea.
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B.
Naval jack of the United States
The Naval jack of the United States is a maritime flag flown by U.S. Navy ships at the bow, historically featuring a blue field with white stars symbolizing the states of the Union.
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C.
United States Coast Guard emblem
The United States Coast Guard emblem is the official insignia featuring a life ring, crossed anchors, and the service’s name and founding date, symbolizing its maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement missions.
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D.
Flag of the United States Department of Defense
The Flag of the United States Department of Defense is the official banner representing the U.S. Department of Defense, typically featuring its emblem on a plain field and used for ceremonial and official departmental purposes.
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E.
Flag of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Flag of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the distinctive personal standard used to represent the highest-ranking military officer in the United States Armed Forces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag of a military service branch
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service flag ⓘ |
| adoptedBy | United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of the United States military
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Service flags of the United States ⓘ United States Coast Guard flag self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
United States Coast Guard symbols
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| color |
dark blue emblem
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red details ⓘ white field ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| designElement |
central circular emblem
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surrounding text identifying the service ⓘ year 1790 on shield ⓘ |
| emblem | emblem of the United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| feature |
13 stars
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United States Coast Guard emblem ⓘ
surface form:
United States Coast Guard shield
eagle ⓘ fouled anchor ⓘ |
| governmentBody | United States Department of Homeland Security ⓘ |
| inscription |
United States Coast Guard
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surface form:
UNITED STATES COAST GUARD
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| inscriptionLanguage | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | maritime service branch of the United States ⓘ |
| motto |
Semper Paratus
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surface form:
SEMPER PARATUS
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| mottoLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| mottoTranslation | Always Ready ⓘ |
| previouslyUnder |
United States Department of Transportation
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United States Department of the Treasury ⓘ |
| regulatesUse | United States Coast Guard regulations ⓘ |
| represents | United States Coast Guard as a whole ⓘ |
| serviceBranch |
United States Armed Forces
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United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
authority of the United States Coast Guard
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environmental protection mission of the United States Coast Guard ⓘ maritime law enforcement mission of the United States Coast Guard ⓘ maritime safety and security mission of the United States Coast Guard ⓘ search and rescue mission of the United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| usedAlongside |
Coast Guard ensign
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surface form:
United States Coast Guard ensign
national flag of the United States ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| usedFor |
formal occasions
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official ceremonies ⓘ parades ⓘ representation of the service in ceremonial contexts ⓘ representation of the service in official contexts ⓘ representation of the service in operational contexts ⓘ |
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: United States Coast Guard flag Description of subject: The United States Coast Guard flag is the official standard of the U.S. Coast Guard, featuring its emblem and used to represent the service in official, ceremonial, and operational contexts.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
United States Coast Guard flag
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category
→
United States Coast Guard flag
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
United States Coast Guard symbols