Flag of Newfoundland and Labrador
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The Flag of Newfoundland and Labrador is the provincial flag of Canada’s easternmost province, featuring a stylized design of blue, white, red, and gold elements symbolizing its maritime heritage, British and Indigenous influences, and aspirations for the future.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Flag of Newfoundland and Labrador canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6450108 — 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 Newfoundland and Labrador Context triple: [Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, flag, Flag of Newfoundland and Labrador]
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A.
Flag of Nunatsiavut
The Flag of Nunatsiavut is the official banner of the Inuit self-governing region in Labrador, Canada, featuring traditional Inuit symbolism and colors that reflect its cultural heritage and northern environment.
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B.
Flag of Prince Edward Island
The Flag of Prince Edward Island is a Canadian provincial flag featuring a stylized English heraldic lion above three small oak saplings and a large oak tree, symbolizing the island and its relationship to Great Britain.
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C.
Flag of Ontario
The Flag of Ontario is a Canadian provincial flag featuring a Red Ensign defaced with the province’s coat of arms, symbolizing Ontario’s British heritage and provincial identity.
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D.
Flag of Quebec
The Flag of Quebec is the official provincial flag of Quebec, Canada, featuring a white cross on a blue field with four white fleurs-de-lis symbolizing the province’s French heritage.
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E.
Flag of the Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador
The Flag of the Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador is the personal standard of the province’s viceregal representative, typically featuring a crowned lion and provincial symbolism on a blue field beneath the Royal Crown.
- 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 Newfoundland and Labrador Target entity description: The Flag of Newfoundland and Labrador is the provincial flag of Canada’s easternmost province, featuring a stylized design of blue, white, red, and gold elements symbolizing its maritime heritage, British and Indigenous influences, and aspirations for the future.
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A.
Flag of Nunatsiavut
The Flag of Nunatsiavut is the official banner of the Inuit self-governing region in Labrador, Canada, featuring traditional Inuit symbolism and colors that reflect its cultural heritage and northern environment.
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B.
Flag of Prince Edward Island
The Flag of Prince Edward Island is a Canadian provincial flag featuring a stylized English heraldic lion above three small oak saplings and a large oak tree, symbolizing the island and its relationship to Great Britain.
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C.
Flag of Ontario
The Flag of Ontario is a Canadian provincial flag featuring a Red Ensign defaced with the province’s coat of arms, symbolizing Ontario’s British heritage and provincial identity.
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D.
Flag of Quebec
The Flag of Quebec is the official provincial flag of Quebec, Canada, featuring a white cross on a blue field with four white fleurs-de-lis symbolizing the province’s French heritage.
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E.
Flag of the Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador
The Flag of the Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador is the personal standard of the province’s viceregal representative, typically featuring a crowned lion and provincial symbolism on a blue field beneath the Royal Crown.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag of Canada
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provincial flag ⓘ |
| adoptionDate | 1980-05-28 ⓘ |
| color |
blue
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gold ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| designer | Christopher Pratt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designFeature |
blue triangles at hoist
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gold arrow on fly side ⓘ red border elements ⓘ stylized geometric shapes ⓘ white field ⓘ |
| legalAuthority | Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Union Jack in provincial use ⓘ |
| proportion | 1:2 ⓘ |
| region | Atlantic Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represents | Newfoundland and Labrador NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | official provincial symbol ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
British heritage
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Christian cross ⓘ Indigenous heritage ⓘ North Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ arrow pointing toward the future ⓘ aspirations for the future ⓘ maritime heritage ⓘ two triangles representing Newfoundland and Labrador ⓘ union with Canada ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
NERFINISHED
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people of Newfoundland and Labrador ⓘ |
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 Newfoundland and Labrador Description of subject: The Flag of Newfoundland and Labrador is the provincial flag of Canada’s easternmost province, featuring a stylized design of blue, white, red, and gold elements symbolizing its maritime heritage, British and Indigenous influences, and aspirations for the future.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.