Flag of California
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The Flag of California, commonly known as the "Bear Flag," is the state flag featuring a lone grizzly bear, a red star, a red stripe, and the words "California Republic," symbolizing the state's history and independence.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Flag of California canonical | 3 |
| California state flag | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1368413 — 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 California Context triple: [California grizzly bear, appearsOn, Flag of California]
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A.
Flag of Delaware
The Flag of Delaware is a blue field featuring the state's coat of arms within a buff-colored diamond, with the date of Delaware's ratification of the U.S. Constitution inscribed below.
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B.
Flag of New Jersey
The Flag of New Jersey is the U.S. state flag featuring a buff-colored field with the state coat of arms, including a blue shield with three plows, a horse’s head crest, and the figures of Liberty and Ceres.
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C.
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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D.
Flag of Mississippi
The Flag of Mississippi is the U.S. state's official banner, adopted in 2020, featuring a magnolia blossom and stars on a blue, red, and gold design that replaced the former Confederate-themed flag.
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E.
Flag of Kentucky
The Flag of Kentucky is the U.S. state's banner featuring the state seal—showing a pioneer and statesman embracing—on a navy blue field encircled by goldenrod sprigs and the words "Commonwealth of Kentucky."
- 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 California Target entity description: The Flag of California, commonly known as the "Bear Flag," is the state flag featuring a lone grizzly bear, a red star, a red stripe, and the words "California Republic," symbolizing the state's history and independence.
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A.
Flag of Delaware
The Flag of Delaware is a blue field featuring the state's coat of arms within a buff-colored diamond, with the date of Delaware's ratification of the U.S. Constitution inscribed below.
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B.
Flag of New Jersey
The Flag of New Jersey is the U.S. state flag featuring a buff-colored field with the state coat of arms, including a blue shield with three plows, a horse’s head crest, and the figures of Liberty and Ceres.
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C.
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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D.
Flag of Mississippi
The Flag of Mississippi is the U.S. state's official banner, adopted in 2020, featuring a magnolia blossom and stars on a blue, red, and gold design that replaced the former Confederate-themed flag.
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E.
Flag of Kentucky
The Flag of Kentucky is the U.S. state's banner featuring the state seal—showing a pioneer and statesman embracing—on a navy blue field encircled by goldenrod sprigs and the words "Commonwealth of Kentucky."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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 California Description of subject: The Flag of California, commonly known as the "Bear Flag," is the state flag featuring a lone grizzly bear, a red star, a red stripe, and the words "California Republic," symbolizing the state's history and independence.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
California state flag