flag of the Second Spanish Republic
E377968
The flag of the Second Spanish Republic was a tricolour of red, yellow, and purple used between 1931 and 1939 as the national flag of Spain’s republican government.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Republican Spain tricolor flag | 1 |
| civil flag of the Second Spanish Republic | 1 |
| flag of the Second Spanish Republic canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3654356 — 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 Second Spanish Republic Context triple: [coat of arms of the Second Spanish Republic, associatedWith, flag of the Second Spanish Republic]
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A.
coat of arms of the Second Spanish Republic
The coat of arms of the Second Spanish Republic was the official emblem of Spain from 1931 to 1939, featuring a quartered shield representing the historic kingdoms of Spain topped by a mural crown and often associated with the tricolour republican flag.
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B.
Flag of Spain
The Flag of Spain is a horizontal red-yellow-red tricolour with the national coat of arms, symbolizing the Spanish state and used as its primary national emblem.
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C.
flag of Castile-La Mancha
The flag of Castile-La Mancha is a regional Spanish banner featuring a distinctive two-vertical-panel design, with the coat of arms on a crimson field alongside a white field, symbolizing the historical kingdoms that form the autonomous community.
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D.
Flag of the Spanish Army
The Flag of the Spanish Army is the official military standard of Spain’s land forces, featuring national colors and emblems that symbolize the army’s heritage, honor, and allegiance to the Spanish state.
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E.
Flag of Aragon
The Flag of Aragon is a historic banner of four red pallets on a golden field, symbolizing the Crown of Aragon and serving as the official flag of the autonomous community of Aragon in northeastern Spain.
- 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 Second Spanish Republic Target entity description: The flag of the Second Spanish Republic was a tricolour of red, yellow, and purple used between 1931 and 1939 as the national flag of Spain’s republican government.
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A.
coat of arms of the Second Spanish Republic
The coat of arms of the Second Spanish Republic was the official emblem of Spain from 1931 to 1939, featuring a quartered shield representing the historic kingdoms of Spain topped by a mural crown and often associated with the tricolour republican flag.
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B.
Flag of Spain
The Flag of Spain is a horizontal red-yellow-red tricolour with the national coat of arms, symbolizing the Spanish state and used as its primary national emblem.
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C.
flag of Castile-La Mancha
The flag of Castile-La Mancha is a regional Spanish banner featuring a distinctive two-vertical-panel design, with the coat of arms on a crimson field alongside a white field, symbolizing the historical kingdoms that form the autonomous community.
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D.
Flag of the Spanish Army
The Flag of the Spanish Army is the official military standard of Spain’s land forces, featuring national colors and emblems that symbolize the army’s heritage, honor, and allegiance to the Spanish state.
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E.
Flag of Aragon
The Flag of Aragon is a historic banner of four red pallets on a golden field, symbolizing the Crown of Aragon and serving as the official flag of the autonomous community of Aragon in northeastern Spain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical flag
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national flag ⓘ |
| adopted | 1931 ⓘ |
| associatedColorMeaning |
purple representing historical Castilian comuneros or León (interpretations vary)
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red representing Castile ⓘ yellow representing Aragon ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Spanish Civil War Republican faction
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Republicanism in Spain ⓘ
surface form:
Spanish republicanism
left-wing movements in Spain ⓘ |
| bottomStripeColor | purple ⓘ |
| color |
purple
ⓘ
red ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| currentUse |
political symbol in contemporary Spain
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protest flag at demonstrations in Spain ⓘ |
| designFeature | three equal horizontal bands ⓘ |
| distinctiveElement | addition of purple stripe ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Second Spanish Republic
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interwar period ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | traditional red-yellow Spanish flag ⓘ |
| introducedOn | 1931-04-14 ⓘ |
| inUseUntil | 1939 ⓘ |
| languageOfCountry | Spanish ⓘ |
| middleStripeColor | yellow ⓘ |
| pattern | horizontal tricolour ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Flag of Spain
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surface form:
red-yellow-red flag of the Kingdom of Spain
|
| proportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| replaced | red-yellow-red flag of Spain ⓘ |
| scriptDirectionOnFlag | none (no official inscription) ⓘ |
| status | no longer official ⓘ |
| stripeOrderTopToBottom |
purple
ⓘ
red ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| succeededBy | red-yellow-red flag used by Francoist Spain ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Spanish regional diversity
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opposition to monarchy in Spain ⓘ popular sovereignty ⓘ republican form of government in Spain ⓘ |
| topStripeColor | red ⓘ |
| usedAs |
flag of the Second Spanish Republic
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
civil flag of the Second Spanish Republic
national flag of Spain ⓘ state flag of the Second Spanish Republic ⓘ war flag of the Republican forces ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Second Spanish Republic
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Second Spanish Republic ⓘ
surface form:
Spanish Republican government
Spanish exile republican organizations after 1939 ⓘ |
| usedInConflict | Spanish Civil War ⓘ |
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 Second Spanish Republic Description of subject: The flag of the Second Spanish Republic was a tricolour of red, yellow, and purple used between 1931 and 1939 as the national flag of Spain’s republican government.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
coat of arms of the Second Spanish Republic
→
associatedWith
→
flag of the Second Spanish Republic
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flag of the Second Spanish Republic
→
usedAs
→
flag of the Second Spanish Republic
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
civil flag of the Second Spanish Republic
this entity surface form:
Republican Spain tricolor flag