United States Coast Guard emblem
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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.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Coast Guard shield | 1 |
| United States Coast Guard emblem canonical | 1 |
| United States Coast Guard seal | 1 |
| United States Coast Guard shield | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T216973 — 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 emblem Context triple: [Coast Guard ensign, emblem, United States Coast Guard emblem]
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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.
United States Army seal
The United States Army seal is the official emblem of the U.S. Army, featuring symbols of military readiness and authority along with its historic founding date.
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C.
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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D.
Seal of the United States Department of Defense
The Seal of the United States Department of Defense is the official emblem representing the U.S. military’s unified defense establishment and the authority of the Secretary of Defense.
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E.
“Don’t Tread on Me” (associated naval ensign)
“Don’t Tread on Me” (associated naval ensign) is a historic American naval flag featuring a rattlesnake and defiant motto symbolizing resistance to oppression and used by the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War.
- 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 emblem Target entity description: 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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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.
United States Army seal
The United States Army seal is the official emblem of the U.S. Army, featuring symbols of military readiness and authority along with its historic founding date.
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C.
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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D.
Seal of the United States Department of Defense
The Seal of the United States Department of Defense is the official emblem representing the U.S. military’s unified defense establishment and the authority of the Secretary of Defense.
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E.
“Don’t Tread on Me” (associated naval ensign)
“Don’t Tread on Me” (associated naval ensign) is a historic American naval flag featuring a rattlesnake and defiant motto symbolizing resistance to oppression and used by the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
emblem
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insignia ⓘ military insignia ⓘ national security symbol ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
United States Department of Homeland Security
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United States Department of Transportation ⓘ Department of the Navy ⓘ
surface form:
United States Department of the Navy
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| authorityScope |
U.S. territorial waters
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international waters operations ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| depicts |
anchors
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life-saving apparatus ⓘ nautical equipment ⓘ |
| hasElement |
crossed anchors
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founding date inscription ⓘ life ring ⓘ service name inscription ⓘ |
| language | English text ⓘ |
| organizationMottoContext | Semper Paratus ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
United States Coast Guard flag
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United States Coast Guard racing stripe ⓘ United States Coast Guard emblem self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
United States Coast Guard seal
|
| represents |
United States federal maritime law enforcement
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United States maritime search and rescue system ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| sector | maritime domain ⓘ |
| serviceBranch |
United States Armed Forces
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United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
maritime law enforcement mission
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maritime safety ⓘ maritime security mission ⓘ maritime stewardship ⓘ search and rescue mission ⓘ |
| theme |
maritime heritage
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protection of life and property at sea ⓘ readiness ⓘ service ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| usedFor |
branding
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ceremonial purposes ⓘ identification ⓘ |
| usedOn |
aircraft
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official documents ⓘ official publications ⓘ signage ⓘ uniform items ⓘ vessels ⓘ |
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 emblem Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
United States Coast Guard emblem
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relatedTo
→
United States Coast Guard emblem
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
United States Coast Guard seal
this entity surface form:
Coast Guard shield
this entity surface form:
United States Coast Guard shield