Flag of the Canary Islands
E29140
The Flag of the Canary Islands is a vertical tricolour of white, blue, and yellow that symbolizes the Spanish Atlantic archipelago’s maritime heritage and insular identity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Flag of the Canary Islands canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T227425 — 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 Canary Islands Context triple: [Canary Islands, flag, Flag of the Canary Islands]
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A.
Puerto Rican flag
The Puerto Rican flag is a red, white, and blue banner featuring five horizontal stripes and a single white star within a blue triangle, symbolizing the island’s identity and political history.
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B.
Flag of Bermuda
The Flag of Bermuda is a British Red Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory and its maritime heritage.
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C.
Flag of the Isle of Man
The Flag of the Isle of Man features a red field charged with a triskelion of three armored legs with golden spurs, an ancient symbol closely associated with the island’s identity and heritage.
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D.
Mexican flag
The Mexican flag is a vertical tricolor of green, white, and red featuring a national coat of arms with an eagle devouring a snake atop a cactus, symbolizing the country’s heritage and identity.
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E.
Chilean flag
The Chilean flag is the national flag of Chile, featuring a white and red horizontal bicolor with a blue canton bearing a single white star, and is a central emblem of Chilean identity and patriotism.
- 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 Canary Islands Target entity description: The Flag of the Canary Islands is a vertical tricolour of white, blue, and yellow that symbolizes the Spanish Atlantic archipelago’s maritime heritage and insular identity.
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A.
Puerto Rican flag
The Puerto Rican flag is a red, white, and blue banner featuring five horizontal stripes and a single white star within a blue triangle, symbolizing the island’s identity and political history.
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B.
Flag of Bermuda
The Flag of Bermuda is a British Red Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory and its maritime heritage.
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C.
Flag of the Isle of Man
The Flag of the Isle of Man features a red field charged with a triskelion of three armored legs with golden spurs, an ancient symbol closely associated with the island’s identity and heritage.
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D.
Mexican flag
The Mexican flag is a vertical tricolor of green, white, and red featuring a national coat of arms with an eagle devouring a snake atop a cactus, symbolizing the country’s heritage and identity.
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E.
Chilean flag
The Chilean flag is the national flag of Chile, featuring a white and red horizontal bicolor with a blue canton bearing a single white star, and is a central emblem of Chilean identity and patriotism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag
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regional flag ⓘ |
| administrativeLevel | autonomous community of Spain ⓘ |
| adoptedBy | Canary Islands ⓘ |
| colorMeaning |
blue symbolizes the surrounding Atlantic Ocean
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white symbolizes the western islands ⓘ yellow symbolizes the eastern islands ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| design | vertical tricolour ⓘ |
| hasAspectRatio | 2:3 ⓘ |
| oceanRegion | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| officialLanguageRegion | Spanish ⓘ |
| officialStatus | official flag of the Canary Islands autonomous community ⓘ |
| partOf | symbols of the Canary Islands ⓘ |
| relatedSymbol |
Coat of arms of the Canary Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
coat of arms of the Canary Islands
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| represents | Canary Islands ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| stripeOrder | white-blue-yellow ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Atlantic location
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Canarian identity ⓘ insular identity ⓘ maritime heritage ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of the Canary Islands
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Parliament of the Canary Islands ⓘ island councils of the Canary Islands ⓘ |
| usesColor |
blue
ⓘ
white ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
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 Canary Islands Description of subject: The Flag of the Canary Islands is a vertical tricolour of white, blue, and yellow that symbolizes the Spanish Atlantic archipelago’s maritime heritage and insular identity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.