Flag of the United States Virgin Islands
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The Flag of the United States Virgin Islands features a simplified U.S. coat of arms with a golden eagle holding an olive branch and arrows between the blue initials “V” and “I” on a white field, symbolizing the territory’s connection to the United States.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Flag of the United States Virgin Islands canonical | 3 |
| Flag of the Governor of the United States Virgin Islands | 1 |
| Flags of the United States Virgin Islands | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T811327 — 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 the United States Virgin Islands Context triple: [Flags of North America, includesFlagOf, Flag of the United States Virgin Islands]
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A.
Flag of the British Virgin Islands
The Flag of the British Virgin Islands is a Blue Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms, featuring Saint Ursula and lamps, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean.
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B.
Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
The Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a vertical tricolour of blue, gold, and green featuring three green diamonds arranged in a V-shape, symbolizing the Caribbean nation’s islands and its nickname “the Gems of the Antilles.”
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C.
Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands
The Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands is a Blue Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean.
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D.
Flag of Antigua and Barbuda
The Flag of Antigua and Barbuda is a distinctive national flag featuring a rising golden sun over black, blue, and white bands with red side panels, symbolizing the dawn of a new era, African heritage, the Caribbean Sea, and hope.
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E.
Flag of Anguilla
The Flag of Anguilla is a Blue Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms featuring three orange dolphins, symbolizing unity, strength, and endurance.
- 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 the United States Virgin Islands Target entity description: The Flag of the United States Virgin Islands features a simplified U.S. coat of arms with a golden eagle holding an olive branch and arrows between the blue initials “V” and “I” on a white field, symbolizing the territory’s connection to the United States.
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A.
Flag of the British Virgin Islands
The Flag of the British Virgin Islands is a Blue Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms, featuring Saint Ursula and lamps, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean.
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B.
Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
The Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a vertical tricolour of blue, gold, and green featuring three green diamonds arranged in a V-shape, symbolizing the Caribbean nation’s islands and its nickname “the Gems of the Antilles.”
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C.
Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands
The Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands is a Blue Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean.
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D.
Flag of Antigua and Barbuda
The Flag of Antigua and Barbuda is a distinctive national flag featuring a rising golden sun over black, blue, and white bands with red side panels, symbolizing the dawn of a new era, African heritage, the Caribbean Sea, and hope.
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E.
Flag of Anguilla
The Flag of Anguilla is a Blue Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms featuring three orange dolphins, symbolizing unity, strength, and endurance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
national symbol
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territorial flag ⓘ |
| adopted | 1921 ⓘ |
| arrowsSymbolism | defense ⓘ |
| backgroundShape | rectangular ⓘ |
| category |
Flags introduced in 1921
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Flags of United States territories ⓘ |
| country |
U.S. Virgin Islands
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surface form:
United States Virgin Islands
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| designBasedOn | Great Seal of the United States ⓘ |
| designer | Percival Wilson Sparks ⓘ |
| eagleColor | gold ⓘ |
| eagleHoldsInLeftClaw | three arrows ⓘ |
| eagleHoldsInRightClaw | olive branch ⓘ |
| eagleRepresents |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| features |
arrows
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blue letter I ⓘ blue letter V ⓘ golden eagle ⓘ olive branch ⓘ |
| fieldColor | white ⓘ |
| governmentUse | official flag of the United States Virgin Islands ⓘ |
| lettersMeaning | initials of Virgin Islands ⓘ |
| oliveBranchSymbolism | peace ⓘ |
| scriptOnFlag | letters V and I ⓘ |
| status | current flag of the United States Virgin Islands ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
United States sovereignty over the United States Virgin Islands
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connection to the United States ⓘ peace ⓘ readiness for defense ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of the United States Virgin Islands
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residents of the United States Virgin Islands ⓘ |
| usesColors |
blue
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brown ⓘ gold ⓘ green ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ |
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 the United States Virgin Islands Description of subject: The Flag of the United States Virgin Islands features a simplified U.S. coat of arms with a golden eagle holding an olive branch and arrows between the blue initials “V” and “I” on a white field, symbolizing the territory’s connection to the United States.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Flag of the Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
this entity surface form:
Flags of the United States Virgin Islands
Seal of the United States Virgin Islands (as used by the Governor)
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relatedTo
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Flag of the United States Virgin Islands
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