Saint Helena flag
E235668
The Saint Helena flag is a British Blue Ensign defaced with the island’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Saint Helena | 2 |
| Blue Ensign flag | 1 |
| Blue Ensign flags | 1 |
| Saint Helena flag canonical | 1 |
| defaced Blue Ensign | 1 |
| flag of Saint Helena | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2027209 — 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: Saint Helena flag Context triple: [Flags of the United Kingdom, includesFlag, Saint Helena flag]
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A.
Flag of Tristan da Cunha
The Flag of Tristan da Cunha is a Blue Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms, symbolizing the remote South Atlantic island’s status as a British Overseas Territory.
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B.
Flag of Ascension Island
The Flag of Ascension Island is the official banner of this remote South Atlantic British Overseas Territory, featuring a Blue Ensign defaced with the island’s distinctive coat of arms.
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C.
Flag of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
The Flag of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is a Blue Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a remote British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic.
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D.
Flag of British Indian Ocean Territory
The Flag of the British Indian Ocean Territory is a colonial-style ensign featuring a Union Jack in the canton, blue and white wavy stripes symbolizing the Indian Ocean, and a palm tree with a crown representing the territory’s tropical islands and British sovereignty.
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E.
Flag of British Antarctic Territory
The Flag of the British Antarctic Territory is a white ensign-style flag featuring the Union Jack in the canton and the territory’s distinctive coat of arms, symbolizing British administration over its Antarctic claim.
- 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: Saint Helena flag Target entity description: The Saint Helena flag is a British Blue Ensign defaced with the island’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic.
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A.
Flag of Tristan da Cunha
The Flag of Tristan da Cunha is a Blue Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms, symbolizing the remote South Atlantic island’s status as a British Overseas Territory.
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B.
Flag of Ascension Island
The Flag of Ascension Island is the official banner of this remote South Atlantic British Overseas Territory, featuring a Blue Ensign defaced with the island’s distinctive coat of arms.
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C.
Flag of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
The Flag of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is a Blue Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a remote British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic.
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D.
Flag of British Indian Ocean Territory
The Flag of the British Indian Ocean Territory is a colonial-style ensign featuring a Union Jack in the canton, blue and white wavy stripes symbolizing the Indian Ocean, and a palm tree with a crown representing the territory’s tropical islands and British sovereignty.
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E.
Flag of British Antarctic Territory
The Flag of the British Antarctic Territory is a white ensign-style flag featuring the Union Jack in the canton and the territory’s distinctive coat of arms, symbolizing British administration over its Antarctic claim.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Saint Helena
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Helena Island
|
| color |
blue
ⓘ
green ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| containsSymbol |
Union Flag in canton
ⓘ
shield ⓘ |
| country | Saint Helena ⓘ |
| designElement |
Blue Ensign with Union Jack in the canton
ⓘ
shield bearing the coat of arms of Saint Helena on the fly ⓘ |
| fieldColor | blue ⓘ |
| geographicContext |
South Atlantic
ⓘ
surface form:
South Atlantic Ocean
|
| hasCanton |
Union Flag
ⓘ
surface form:
Union Jack
|
| hasDefacement |
Coat of arms of Saint Helena
ⓘ
surface form:
coat of arms of Saint Helena
|
| jurisdiction |
British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
|
| politicalStatusRepresented |
British Overseas Territories
ⓘ
surface form:
British Overseas Territory
|
| scriptDirection | left-to-right layout of canton and fly defacement ⓘ |
| sharesDesignFamilyWith |
Flag of Bermuda
ⓘ
Flag of the British Virgin Islands ⓘ Flag of the Cayman Islands ⓘ Flag of the Falkland Islands ⓘ |
| sovereignState | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Saint Helena
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean
status as a British Overseas Territory ⓘ |
| usedBy | Government of Saint Helena ⓘ |
| usedOn |
government buildings
ⓘ
land ⓘ |
| usesDesign | British Blue Ensign ⓘ |
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: Saint Helena flag Description of subject: The Saint Helena flag is a British Blue Ensign defaced with the island’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
defaced Blue Ensign
this entity surface form:
Flag of Saint Helena
this entity surface form:
Blue Ensign flags
this entity surface form:
Flag of Saint Helena
this entity surface form:
flag of Saint Helena
this entity surface form:
Blue Ensign flag