Maple Leaf
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The Maple Leaf is a widely recognized emblem of Canada, prominently featured on its national flag and associated with Canadian identity and heritage.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maple Leaf canonical | 2 |
| Maple leaf | 2 |
| Maple leaf badge | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4088163 — 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: Maple Leaf Context triple: [Canada Day, symbol, Maple Leaf]
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A.
Maple Leaf
Maple Leaf is an Amtrak intercity passenger train service that operates between New York City and Toronto, connecting major cities in New York State with southern Ontario.
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B.
The Maple Leaf Forever
"The Maple Leaf Forever" is a 19th-century patriotic song that long served as an unofficial national anthem of Canada, celebrating the country's British heritage.
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C.
O Canada
"O Canada" is the national anthem of Canada, widely performed at official events and international sporting competitions.
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D.
Blitzen
Blitzen is one of Santa Claus's legendary flying reindeer, traditionally depicted as helping pull his sleigh on Christmas Eve.
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E.
The Green and Gold
The Green and Gold is a popular nickname for the Portland Timbers, the Major League Soccer club based in Portland, Oregon.
- 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: Maple Leaf Target entity description: The Maple Leaf is a widely recognized emblem of Canada, prominently featured on its national flag and associated with Canadian identity and heritage.
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A.
Maple Leaf
Maple Leaf is an Amtrak intercity passenger train service that operates between New York City and Toronto, connecting major cities in New York State with southern Ontario.
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B.
The Maple Leaf Forever
"The Maple Leaf Forever" is a 19th-century patriotic song that long served as an unofficial national anthem of Canada, celebrating the country's British heritage.
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C.
O Canada
"O Canada" is the national anthem of Canada, widely performed at official events and international sporting competitions.
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D.
Blitzen
Blitzen is one of Santa Claus's legendary flying reindeer, traditionally depicted as helping pull his sleigh on Christmas Eve.
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E.
The Green and Gold
The Green and Gold is a popular nickname for the Portland Timbers, the Major League Soccer club based in Portland, Oregon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
national emblem
ⓘ
national symbol ⓘ |
| adoptedAsNationalSymbolBy | Canada ⓘ |
| appearsOn |
Canadian Olympic team uniforms
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Canadian airline branding ⓘ Canadian citizenship certificates ⓘ Canadian national hockey team uniforms ⓘ Canadian postage stamps ⓘ Canadian war memorials ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Canadian culture
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Canadian history ⓘ Canadian nationalism ⓘ Canadian nature ⓘ Canadian patriotism ⓘ maple syrup ⓘ maple tree ⓘ |
| color | red ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| culturalMeaning |
connection to Canadian landscape
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peace and tolerance in Canadian identity ⓘ unity of Canadian provinces and territories ⓘ |
| featuredOn | Flag of Canada ⓘ |
| flagDesignContext | white square between two red bands ⓘ |
| flagDesignElement | central emblem ⓘ |
| historicalUseSinceCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| numberOfPoints | 11 ⓘ |
| prominentlyAdoptedOnFlagYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | symbol of Canada worldwide ⓘ |
| shape | stylized maple leaf ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Canada
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Canadian heritage ⓘ Canadian identity ⓘ |
| usedAs |
badge on Canadian military uniforms
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branding element for Canadian products ⓘ decorative motif on Canadian monuments ⓘ insignia on Canadian government buildings ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Canadian forces
ⓘ
surface form:
Canadian Armed Forces
Canadian businesses ⓘ Canadian sports teams ⓘ Canadian federal government (Ottawa) ⓘ
surface form:
Government of Canada
Royal Canadian Mounted Police ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Canadian coins
ⓘ
Canadian government logos ⓘ Canadian military insignia ⓘ Canadian passports ⓘ |
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: Maple Leaf Description of subject: The Maple Leaf is a widely recognized emblem of Canada, prominently featured on its national flag and associated with Canadian identity and heritage.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Maple leaf
this entity surface form:
Maple leaf
this entity surface form:
Maple leaf badge