Flag of the Cayman Islands
E92211
The Flag of the Cayman Islands is a Blue Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory and reflecting its maritime heritage and Caribbean identity.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of the Cayman Islands canonical | 5 |
| Cayman Islands flag | 1 |
| Flags of the Cayman Islands | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T752468 — 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 Cayman Islands Context triple: [Flags of British Overseas Territories, hasPart, Flag of the Cayman Islands]
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A.
Flag of Bermuda
The Flag of Bermuda is a British Red Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory and its maritime heritage.
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B.
Flag of the Isle of Man
The Flag of the Isle of Man features a red field charged with a triskelion of three armored legs with golden spurs, an ancient symbol closely associated with the island’s identity and heritage.
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C.
Royal Standard of Saint Kitts and Nevis
The Royal Standard of Saint Kitts and Nevis is the personal flag used to represent the reigning monarch when present in or acting on behalf of the nation.
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D.
Flag of Ceylon
The Flag of Ceylon was the national flag used by the British Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from independence in 1948 until the country became a republic in 1972.
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E.
Royal Standard of the Queen of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
The Royal Standard of the Queen of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is the monarch’s personal flag used in the country to symbolize her presence and authority, distinct from the national flag.
- 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 Cayman Islands Target entity description: The Flag of the Cayman Islands is a Blue Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory and reflecting its maritime heritage and Caribbean identity.
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A.
Flag of Bermuda
The Flag of Bermuda is a British Red Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory and its maritime heritage.
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B.
Flag of the Isle of Man
The Flag of the Isle of Man features a red field charged with a triskelion of three armored legs with golden spurs, an ancient symbol closely associated with the island’s identity and heritage.
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C.
Royal Standard of Saint Kitts and Nevis
The Royal Standard of Saint Kitts and Nevis is the personal flag used to represent the reigning monarch when present in or acting on behalf of the nation.
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D.
Flag of Ceylon
The Flag of Ceylon was the national flag used by the British Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from independence in 1948 until the country became a republic in 1972.
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E.
Royal Standard of the Queen of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
The Royal Standard of the Queen of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is the monarch’s personal flag used in the country to symbolize her presence and authority, distinct from the national flag.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Blue Ensign
ⓘ
national flag ⓘ |
| adoptionDate | 1958-05-14 ⓘ |
| category |
Blue Ensign
ⓘ
surface form:
Blue Ensigns
Flags of British Overseas Territories ⓘ |
| coatOfArmsElement |
blue and white wavy lines
ⓘ
golden lion passant guardant ⓘ green turtle ⓘ pineapple ⓘ three green stars ⓘ |
| country | Cayman Islands ⓘ |
| defacedWith | coat of arms of the Cayman Islands ⓘ |
| designAuthority |
Cayman Islands Government
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of the Cayman Islands
|
| designElement |
Union Jack in the canton
ⓘ
coat of arms of the Cayman Islands in the fly ⓘ |
| ensignType |
civil ensign variant
ⓘ
state ensign variant ⓘ |
| fieldColor | blue ⓘ |
| governingState | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | British maritime ensign tradition ⓘ |
| lionColorOnCoatOfArms | gold ⓘ |
| modifiedDate | 1999-01-01 ⓘ |
| mottoOnCoatOfArms | He hath founded it upon the seas ⓘ |
| mottoSource | Psalm 24:2 ⓘ |
| officialLanguageOnMotto | Latin ⓘ |
| officialStatus | recognized by the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| pineappleColorOnCoatOfArms | gold and green ⓘ |
| proportion | 1:2 ⓘ |
| region | Caribbean ⓘ |
| represents | three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman ⓘ |
| scriptOnMotto | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| starCountOnCoatOfArms | 3 ⓘ |
| status | current national flag of the Cayman Islands ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Caribbean identity
ⓘ
maritime heritage ⓘ status as a British Overseas Territory ⓘ |
| turtleColorOnCoatOfArms | green ⓘ |
| usedBy |
civil authorities of the Cayman Islands
ⓘ
Cayman Islands Government ⓘ
surface form:
government of the Cayman Islands
|
| usedOn |
government vessels
ⓘ
land ⓘ |
| uses | Union Flag in canton ⓘ |
| usesDesign | British Blue Ensign ⓘ |
| usesShieldVariant | Cayman Islands coat of arms without motto scroll on some versions ⓘ |
| visualMotif |
colonial heritage
ⓘ
nautical symbolism ⓘ |
| waveColorOnCoatOfArms | blue and white ⓘ |
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 Cayman Islands Description of subject: The Flag of the Cayman Islands is a Blue Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory and reflecting its maritime heritage and Caribbean identity.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cayman Islands flag
subject surface form:
Flag of Saint Helena
this entity surface form:
Flags of the Cayman Islands