Flag of Cuba
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The Flag of Cuba is a national flag featuring five alternating blue and white stripes with a red equilateral triangle at the hoist bearing a white five-pointed star, symbolizing liberty, equality, and independence.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Cuba canonical | 3 |
| Cuban flag | 2 |
| Cuban lone star flag | 1 |
| Lone Star flag of Cuba | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T811309 — 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 Cuba Context triple: [Flags of North America, includesFlagOf, Flag of Cuba]
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A.
Flag of Panama
The Flag of Panama is a national flag featuring a quartered design of white, red, and blue fields with two stars, symbolizing the country's political parties and its role as a bridge between oceans and continents.
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B.
Flag of Guatemala
The Flag of Guatemala is a vertical blue-white-blue tricolor featuring the national coat of arms with a quetzal bird, symbolizing liberty and the country's location between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
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C.
Flag of Nicaragua
The Flag of Nicaragua is a horizontal blue-white-blue tricolor featuring the country’s coat of arms at the center, symbolizing liberty, peace, and its Central American heritage.
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D.
Puerto Rican flag
The Puerto Rican flag is a red, white, and blue banner featuring five horizontal stripes and a single white star within a blue triangle, symbolizing the island’s identity and political history.
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E.
Flag of Honduras
The Flag of Honduras is a horizontal triband of blue-white-blue with five blue stars arranged in an X pattern in the center, symbolizing the country's place in Central America and its hope for regional unity.
- 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 Cuba Target entity description: The Flag of Cuba is a national flag featuring five alternating blue and white stripes with a red equilateral triangle at the hoist bearing a white five-pointed star, symbolizing liberty, equality, and independence.
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A.
Flag of Panama
The Flag of Panama is a national flag featuring a quartered design of white, red, and blue fields with two stars, symbolizing the country's political parties and its role as a bridge between oceans and continents.
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B.
Flag of Guatemala
The Flag of Guatemala is a vertical blue-white-blue tricolor featuring the national coat of arms with a quetzal bird, symbolizing liberty and the country's location between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
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C.
Flag of Nicaragua
The Flag of Nicaragua is a horizontal blue-white-blue tricolor featuring the country’s coat of arms at the center, symbolizing liberty, peace, and its Central American heritage.
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D.
Puerto Rican flag
The Puerto Rican flag is a red, white, and blue banner featuring five horizontal stripes and a single white star within a blue triangle, symbolizing the island’s identity and political history.
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E.
Flag of Honduras
The Flag of Honduras is a horizontal triband of blue-white-blue with five blue stars arranged in an X pattern in the center, symbolizing the country's place in Central America and its hope for regional unity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag of a country
ⓘ
national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1902-05-20 ⓘ |
| blueStripesSymbolism | three original military districts of Cuba ⓘ |
| capitalCityCountry |
Havana
ⓘ
linked to:
Havana, Cuba
|
| continentCountry | North America ⓘ |
| country | Cuba ⓘ |
| designedBy | Narciso López ⓘ |
| designedIn | 1849 ⓘ |
| firstRaisedIn | Cárdenas, Cuba ⓘ |
| firstRaisedOn | 1850-05-19 ⓘ |
| hasColor |
blue
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| hasStar | yes ⓘ |
| hasTriangle | yes ⓘ |
| numberOfStripes | 5 ⓘ |
| officialLanguageCountry | Spanish ⓘ |
| proportion | 1:2 ⓘ |
| redTriangleSymbolism |
blood shed for independence
ⓘ
revolutionary ideals ⓘ |
| regionCountry | Caribbean ⓘ |
| similarTo |
Flag of Puerto Rico
ⓘ
linked to:
Puerto Rican flag
|
| starColor | white ⓘ |
| starPoints | 5 ⓘ |
| starPosition | inside the red triangle ⓘ |
| starShape | five-pointed star ⓘ |
| starSymbolism |
freedom
ⓘ
independence ⓘ unity of the Cuban people ⓘ |
| status | current national flag of Cuba ⓘ |
| stripeColor |
blue
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| stripePattern | five horizontal stripes alternating blue and white ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
equality
ⓘ
freedom ⓘ independence ⓘ liberty ⓘ national sovereignty ⓘ |
| triangleColor | red ⓘ |
| trianglePosition | hoist side ⓘ |
| triangleShape | equilateral triangle ⓘ |
| usedAs |
civil flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| whiteStripesSymbolism | purity of the patriotic cause ⓘ |
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 Cuba Description of subject: The Flag of Cuba is a national flag featuring five alternating blue and white stripes with a red equilateral triangle at the hoist bearing a white five-pointed star, symbolizing liberty, equality, and independence.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Flag of Cuba
linked to: Flag of Cuba
linked to: Flag of Cuba