Flag of the Dominican Republic
E136988
The Flag of the Dominican Republic is a national flag featuring a centered white cross dividing blue and red quarters, with the country’s coat of arms at the center, symbolizing its heritage, faith, and independence.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of the Dominican Republic canonical | 2 |
| Dominican Republic flag | 1 |
| Dominican national flag | 1 |
| flag of the Dominican Republic | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T811312 — 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 Dominican Republic Context triple: [Flags of North America, includesFlagOf, Flag of the Dominican Republic]
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A.
Flag of Haiti
The Flag of Haiti is a horizontal bicolor of blue and red bearing the country's coat of arms on a white panel, symbolizing the nation's struggle for independence and unity.
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B.
Flag of Cuba
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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 Dominican Republic Target entity description: The Flag of the Dominican Republic is a national flag featuring a centered white cross dividing blue and red quarters, with the country’s coat of arms at the center, symbolizing its heritage, faith, and independence.
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A.
Flag of Haiti
The Flag of Haiti is a horizontal bicolor of blue and red bearing the country's coat of arms on a white panel, symbolizing the nation's struggle for independence and unity.
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B.
Flag of Cuba
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1844-11-06 ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Dominican independence movement ⓘ |
| blueSymbolism | liberty ⓘ |
| bottomLeftCantonColor | red ⓘ |
| bottomRightCantonColor | blue ⓘ |
| category |
Flags displaying the Bible
ⓘ
Flags of North America ⓘ Flags with crosses ⓘ |
| containsElement |
Bible
ⓘ
cross ⓘ laurel branches ⓘ national shield ⓘ palm branches ⓘ |
| containsText | Dios, Patria, Libertad ⓘ |
| country | Dominican Republic ⓘ |
| creator | Juan Pablo Duarte ⓘ |
| designFeature |
blue quarters
ⓘ
centered white cross ⓘ national coat of arms at center ⓘ red quarters ⓘ |
| governmentBodyResponsible |
Government of the Dominican Republic
ⓘ
linked to:
government of the Dominican Republic
|
| hasAspectRatio | 2:3 ⓘ |
| hasProportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| introducedInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| legalStatus | defined in Dominican constitution ⓘ |
| nationalMottoOnCoatOfArms | Dios, Patria, Libertad ⓘ |
| officialLanguageOfInscription | Spanish ⓘ |
| orientation | white cross extends to edges ⓘ |
| redSymbolism | blood of patriots ⓘ |
| regulatesUse | Dominican law ⓘ |
| relatedSymbol |
Coat of arms of the Dominican Republic
ⓘ
linked to:
coat of arms of the Dominican Republic
|
| religiousSymbolism | Christianity ⓘ |
| status | in use ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
faith
ⓘ
heritage ⓘ independence ⓘ |
| topLeftCantonColor | blue ⓘ |
| topRightCantonColor | red ⓘ |
| uniqueFeature | only national flag with a Bible depicted ⓘ |
| usedAs |
civil flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| usesColors |
blue
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| whiteSymbolism | salvation ⓘ |
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 Dominican Republic Description of subject: The Flag of the Dominican Republic is a national flag featuring a centered white cross dividing blue and red quarters, with the country’s coat of arms at the center, symbolizing its heritage, faith, and independence.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
National Independence Day
linked to: Flag of the Dominican Republic
linked to: Flag of the Dominican Republic
linked to: Flag of the Dominican Republic