Flag of Mississippi
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The Flag of Mississippi is the U.S. state's official banner, adopted in 2020, featuring a magnolia blossom and stars on a blue, red, and gold design that replaced the former Confederate-themed flag.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| flag of Mississippi | 2 |
| Flag of Mississippi canonical | 1 |
| New Magnolia flag | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T631893 — 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 Mississippi Context triple: [Mississippi, hasFlag, Flag of Mississippi]
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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 the Republic of Texas
The Flag of the Republic of Texas is the historic Lone Star banner featuring a single white star beside vertical blue and horizontal white and red stripes, which later became the state flag of Texas.
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C.
Connecticut colonial flag
The Connecticut colonial flag was the historical banner of the Connecticut Colony, featuring early versions of the state’s emblematic grapevines and motto that evolved into the modern Connecticut state flag.
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D.
Confederate battle flag
The Confederate battle flag is a widely recognized and highly controversial emblem associated with the Confederate States during the American Civil War and later with movements supporting white supremacy and Southern heritage.
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E.
Flag of the Governor of Florida
The Flag of the Governor of Florida is the official personal standard used by the state's governor, typically featuring Florida’s state seal and distinctive design elements to symbolize the authority of the office.
- 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 Mississippi Target entity description: The Flag of Mississippi is the U.S. state's official banner, adopted in 2020, featuring a magnolia blossom and stars on a blue, red, and gold design that replaced the former Confederate-themed 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 the Republic of Texas
The Flag of the Republic of Texas is the historic Lone Star banner featuring a single white star beside vertical blue and horizontal white and red stripes, which later became the state flag of Texas.
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C.
Connecticut colonial flag
The Connecticut colonial flag was the historical banner of the Connecticut Colony, featuring early versions of the state’s emblematic grapevines and motto that evolved into the modern Connecticut state flag.
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D.
Confederate battle flag
The Confederate battle flag is a widely recognized and highly controversial emblem associated with the Confederate States during the American Civil War and later with movements supporting white supremacy and Southern heritage.
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E.
Flag of the Governor of Florida
The Flag of the Governor of Florida is the official personal standard used by the state's governor, typically featuring Florida’s state seal and distinctive design elements to symbolize the authority of the office.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag of a U.S. state
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state flag ⓘ |
| adoptedInYear | 2021 ⓘ |
| adoptionDate | 2021-01-11 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
In God We Trust
ⓘ
surface form:
In God We Trust flag
Flag of Mississippi ⓘ
surface form:
New Magnolia flag
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| approvedByVotersOn | 2020-11-03 ⓘ |
| category | Flags of states of the United States ⓘ |
| centralEmblem | stylized magnolia blossom ⓘ |
| colors |
blue
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gold ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| confederateSymbolPresent | no ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| designApprovedInYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| designers |
Cara Staggs
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Lanny Sommese ⓘ Rocky Vaughan ⓘ Sue Anna Joe ⓘ |
| features |
20 white stars
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blue field ⓘ gold vertical stripes ⓘ magnolia blossom ⓘ red vertical stripes ⓘ single gold five-pointed star ⓘ |
| goldStarCount | 1 ⓘ |
| goldStarRepresents | Choctaw Nation ⓘ |
| governorWhoSigned | Tate Reeves ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Mississippi ⓘ |
| legalStatus | official state flag of Mississippi ⓘ |
| legislativeAct | Mississippi Legislature approval 2021 ⓘ |
| mottoDisplayed | In God We Trust ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Confederate battle flag
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surface form:
Confederate-themed flag of Mississippi
|
| proportion | 3:5 ⓘ |
| replaced | former flag of Mississippi (1894–2020) ⓘ |
| represents | Mississippi ⓘ |
| selectionMethod | public referendum ⓘ |
| selectionProcess | chosen by Mississippi State Flag Commission ⓘ |
| starCount | 21 ⓘ |
| status | in use ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Mississippi as the 20th U.S. state
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hope ⓘ hospitality ⓘ rebirth ⓘ |
| usedBy | State of Mississippi ⓘ |
| whiteStarCount | 20 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Mississippi Description of subject: The Flag of Mississippi is the U.S. state's official banner, adopted in 2020, featuring a magnolia blossom and stars on a blue, red, and gold design that replaced the former Confederate-themed flag.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
New Magnolia flag
this entity surface form:
flag of Mississippi
this entity surface form:
flag of Mississippi