Pennsylvania state flag
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The Pennsylvania state flag is a blue banner featuring the state coat of arms with two draft horses, a shield, an eagle, and a ribbon bearing the state motto.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Pennsylvania | 1 |
| Flag of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania | 1 |
| Pennsylvania state flag canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3385008 — 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: Pennsylvania state flag Context triple: [Virtue, Liberty and Independence, appearsOn, Pennsylvania state flag]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Flag of Maryland
The Flag of Maryland is the distinctive U.S. state flag featuring the heraldic black-and-gold Calvert and red-and-white Crossland family arms in a quartered design.
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D.
Oklahoma state flag
The Oklahoma state flag is the official banner of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, featuring a traditional Osage Nation buffalo-skin shield and symbols of peace on a blue field.
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E.
Flag of Rhode Island
The Flag of Rhode Island is a white field featuring a gold anchor encircled by thirteen gold stars and a blue ribbon bearing the state motto, symbolizing the state's maritime heritage and colonial history.
- 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: Pennsylvania state flag Target entity description: The Pennsylvania state flag is a blue banner featuring the state coat of arms with two draft horses, a shield, an eagle, and a ribbon bearing the state motto.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Flag of Maryland
The Flag of Maryland is the distinctive U.S. state flag featuring the heraldic black-and-gold Calvert and red-and-white Crossland family arms in a quartered design.
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D.
Oklahoma state flag
The Oklahoma state flag is the official banner of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, featuring a traditional Osage Nation buffalo-skin shield and symbols of peace on a blue field.
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E.
Flag of Rhode Island
The Flag of Rhode Island is a white field featuring a gold anchor encircled by thirteen gold stars and a blue ribbon bearing the state motto, symbolizing the state's maritime heritage and colonial history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag of a U.S. state
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ |
| adopted | 1799 ⓘ |
| backgroundColor | blue ⓘ |
| bears | coat of arms of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| coatOfArmsMotto | Virtue, Liberty and Independence ⓘ |
| color |
black
ⓘ
gold ⓘ green ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| compartment |
olive branch
ⓘ
stalks of corn ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crest |
Bald eagle
ⓘ
surface form:
bald eagle
|
| designElement |
ornamental flourishes around shield
ⓘ
scroll with state motto ⓘ |
| features |
coat of arms of Pennsylvania
ⓘ
eagle ⓘ ribbon ⓘ shield ⓘ state motto of Pennsylvania ⓘ two draft horses ⓘ |
| hasDesignType | seal-on-blue-flag design ⓘ |
| isSimilarTo |
state flag of Michigan
ⓘ
state flag of New York ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| legalStatus | official state symbol of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| mottoText | Virtue, Liberty and Independence ⓘ |
| represents |
Pennsylvania
ⓘ
surface form:
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
|
| shieldColor |
blue
ⓘ
gold ⓘ |
| shieldElement |
plough
ⓘ
ship under full sail ⓘ three sheaves of wheat ⓘ |
| standardized | 1907 ⓘ |
| supporter | draft horse ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Pennsylvania agriculture
ⓘ
Pennsylvania commerce ⓘ Pennsylvania resources ⓘ independence ⓘ liberty ⓘ virtue ⓘ |
| textLanguage | English ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania government
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Army National Guard ⓘ
surface form:
Pennsylvania National Guard
|
| usesRatio | 2:3 ⓘ |
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: Pennsylvania state flag Description of subject: The Pennsylvania state flag is a blue banner featuring the state coat of arms with two draft horses, a shield, an eagle, and a ribbon bearing the state motto.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Flag of Pennsylvania
this entity surface form:
Flag of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania